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Scientific Method
What You’ll Need to Complete these Activities:
Can You See it – Potato Chip Lab:
- A bag of potato or tortilla chips (A sturdy chip (like Ruffles, Fritos Corn Chips, Doritos, etc.) works best here, and you can reuse chips from class to class if needed.)
- Potato Chip Observation Template (included in PDF)
- Pens or pencils
- Crayons/colored pencils
Lab Tools:
- Various Lab equipment examples (flasks, cylinders, test tubes, pipettes, forceps/tweezers, beakers, microscopes, balance/digital scale, microscope slides, petri dishes, Bunsen burners, thermometers, etc.)
- Measuring stick or tape measure
- 4 Ziploc bags filled with varying substances (per group or per student) – one contains soil, the others contain “chemicals” which could include inexpensive substances such as baby powder, baking powder, flour, corn starch, kool aid, powdered jello, etc.
- Petri dish or other small container (per group)
- Thermometer (per group)
- Balance beam or digital scale (per group)
- 100 ml beaker with water (per group or per student)
- Pipette (per group)
- Graduated cylinder (per group)
What Specimen is That?
- Specimen (one per student – this can be a jarred specimen, a leaf or stick, a picture of an animal, etc.)
- Blank sheet of paper
- Pen or pencil
- Index Card (per student)
- Crayons/colored pencils
There’s a Method to the Madness – Bellwork Activity:
- Tooth brush
- Floss
- Toothpaste
- Cup for rinsing
Swimming In Science STEM Lab:
- Dish or sink full of water
- Scissors
- Card stock or construction paper
- Hole Punch
Science Cubing
Don’t Burst My Bubble – Bubble Gum Lab
Cells
What You’ll Need to Complete these Activities:
Cell Organelles: Animal or Plant? Lab
- Microscope
- 2 blank microscope slides and coverslips per student or group
- Pipette
- Toothpicks
- Elodea or other water plant
- Human mouth
- 3 prepared animal cell slides and 3 prepared plant cell slides (we like this set)
Cell Processes: Why Are Cells So Small? Lab
- A stick of potato
- Plastic knives
- 250 ml beaker
- 100 ml beaker
- Iodine
- Paper towels
- Four Rulers per group
- Gloves
Chromatography: Exploring the Color of Plants Lab
- Isopropyl alcohol
- Spinach leaf
- Coffee filters
- Coin
- Beaker
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Tape
- Pencil
- Colored pencils or crayons
Cellular Processes: Is There Life on Other Planets
- Bromothymol Blue
- 200ml beaker or other clear container
- Pipette
- Plastic straws (four per group or per demonstration)
Moving Across the Membrane: Osmosis and Diffusion lab
- Three 250 ml beakers or other clear container (per student group or per demonstration)
- Balance beam
- Sugar or corn syrup
- Salt
- One raisin and one grape (per student group or demonstration)
Microscope Parts and “e” Lab
- Microscope
- One blank slide and coverslip (per student, student group, or demonstration)
- Pipette
- Cup of water
Genetics
What You’ll Need to Complete these Activities:
Let’s Mix it Up – A Venture into Hybridization Card Activity:
- Card stock
- Scissors or paper cutter
My Fruit is Alive DNA Extraction Lab
- 1/4 cup of fruit (kiwi, strawberries, banana) per student group or demonstration
- Ziploc bags
- Extraction Buffer (made with Dishwashing soap, salt and water)
- Coffee filters
- Funnel
- Test tubes with test tube rack
- Isopropyl alcohol
- Wooden skewer
Phenylthiocarbamide Says WHAT?!? Lab
- PTC tasting paper – 1 per student
Evolution
What You’ll Need to Complete these Activities:
Building Beasts:
May the Best Beak Win:
- Four plastic cups per student group of four
- Clothespins
- Forceps/tweezers
- Plastic Spoons
- Chopsticks
- 20 pieces of each: Rice, rubber bands, beans, and Toothpicks (per student group of four)
How Old is That Fossil?
- Scissors
- 1/2 sheet of White paper per student
- Pencils
Human Anatomy
What You’ll Need to Complete these Activities:
Cardiovascular System Pump it Up Lab
- Stopwatch or phone timer
- Chair
- Room to move around
Digestive System Trek the Tract Activity
Integumentary System Skin Sensitivity Lab
- Pencils
- Index Card
- Ruler
- Toothpicks
- Tape
- Glue, rubber cement or glue stick with glue gun
Muscular System In a Blink Muscle Action lab
- Recycled paper from your waste can
- Transparent film such as saran wrap, blank over head transparency, or goggles
- Stopwatch or phone timer
Nervous System Catch Me if You Can Lab
Respiratory System Don’t Hold Your Breath Lung Capacity Lab
Skeletal System Dem Crazy Bones Project
- 11×14 construction paper
- Scissors
- Markers or colored pencils
- Other crafty materials such as pipe cleaners, glitter, stickers, etc.
Taxonomy & Classification
What You’ll Need to Complete these Activities:
Are You Contagious Epidemic Lab:
- Pack of Avery Return Address labels: 4 columns with label measuring 0.5 W x 1.75 H, 80 labels per page
Mushroom Dissection
- Mushroom Specimen (one per student/group) – purchase from grocery store
- Dissection Kit with magnifying glass , scalpel
- Dissection tray
- Pipette
- Forceps/tweezers
- Cup with small amount of water per student or group
- Microscope per student or group
- Three glass slides and coverslips per student or group
- Prepared mushroom under a cup (see directions in teacher notes)
- Pen or pencil
- Crayons/colored pencils
- goggles
Lily Dissection
- Flower Specimen (one per student/group) – lily, daffodil, iris, tulip, hibiscus
- Large bean seed, such as lima, pinto, butter, or kidney (soaked overnight in water)
- Dissection Kit with magnifying glass , scalpel
- Dissection tray
- Forceps/tweezers
- Pen or pencil
- Crayons/colored pencils
- goggles
Invertebrate Mobile Project
- Depending on student design choice: miscellaneous items such as poster board, cardboard, toilet paper tubes, coat hangers, index cards, string, any materials found in your recycling bin, etc. to build your project.
Frog 3/D Model for Pre/Post/Virtual Dissection
**(Lesson is sold separately from this bundle and found here.)
To implement a Frog Dissection, the following materials would be needed:
- Frog Specimen (one per student/group)
- Dissection Kit with magnifying glass , scalpel
- Dissection tray
- Forceps/tweezers
- Pen or pencil
- Crayons/colored pencils
- Newspaper to line the tray
- Gloves
- goggles
Earthworm 3/D Model for Pre/Post/Virtual Dissection
**(Lesson is sold separately from this bundle and found here.)
To implement an Earthworm Dissection, the following materials would be needed:
- Worm Specimen (one per student/group)
- Dissection Kit with magnifying glass , scalpel
- Dissection tray
- Forceps/tweezers
- Pen or pencil
- Crayons/colored pencils
- Newspaper to line the tray
- Gloves
- goggles
Ecology
What You’ll Need to Complete these Activities:
Biome Diorama Project:
- Shoe box
- Tissue paper
- Glue and glue gun
- Scissors
- Crayons/colored pencils
- Crafty materials such as plastic animal and plant figurines, yarn, puff balls, glitter, stickers, realistic miniature trees and plants, you name it! You can supply them or have your students bring them from home.
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