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Interactive Science Lessons

Provide online guided instruction, practice, and assessment of core science concepts and practices using text, audio, and interactive tasks.

Science Videos

Take students on virtual field trips or show them complex science processes in action.

Scientist & Inventor Cards

Increase student knowledge of key people who made major contributions in STEM fields.

Career Files

Help students learn how science ideas and concepts apply in real-world jobs.

Process Activities
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Engaging Science Activities and Fun Experiments for Kids

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Science A-Z Process Activities provide opportunities to apply important unit concepts and develop scientific practices through hands-on science activities and fun experiments for kids. Students learn to read, think, write, speak, and behave as real scientists in a structured format, which helps prepare them to design and pursue their own investigations in the future.

Each Process Activity includes a purpose, background information, a materials list, procedures, a data sheet, and several questions to help students analyze their data and draw conclusions. Teaching Tips help guide science projects for kids.

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Why Use Process Activities

In Science A-Z Process Activities, students apply important practices in order to construct scientific understanding. Students identify problems, ask and answer questions, hypothesize, manipulate variables, apply math skills, gather evidence, solve problems, and communicate their findings through speaking, listening, and writing.

Students practice observing, proposing new ideas, designing experiments, and testing new ideas as they collaborate with peers on a Process Activity. These skills and habits of mind apply to everyday life long after students complete classroom investigations.

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Life

Earth & Space

Physical

Process

Life

Animals

Animal Trading Cards

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Animals Around You

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Pet or Not

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Sow Bugs

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Living/Non-Living

Testing for Life

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Plants

Fruit Seeds

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Plants, Water, and Sunlight

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Sorting Leaves

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Senses

Identifying Substances by Smell

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Senses Poster

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Sensory Deprivation

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Earth & Space

Earth, Moon, and Sun

Modeling the Earth, Moon, and Sun

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Weather

Cotton Ball Clouds

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Measuring Wind with a Cup Anemometer

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Weather Journal

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Earth's Surface

Erosion Control

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Physical

Doing Work

Tasks and Tools

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Energy

Rolling Down a Ramp

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Tuning Forks and Sound

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Light

Mixing Colors

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Properties

Classifying Objects

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Magnets

Magnetic Nails

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Things Move

Launch Weights with Rubber Bands

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Process

Hypotheses (Skills)

Hypotheses

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Data Sheets (Skills)

Using Data Sheets for a Survey

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Using Diagrams (Skills)

Making Diagrams

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Draw Conclusions (Skills)

Drawing Conclusions

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Observation vs. Inference (Skills)

Making Observations and Inferences

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Identify and Control Variables (Skills)

Working with Variables

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Using Graphs (Skills)

Using Graphs

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Thermometers (Tools)

Water Temperature

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Balance Scales (Tools)

Using a Balance Scale

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Length Measurement (Tools)

Measuring Length

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Hand Lenses (Tools)

Using a Hand Lens

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Life

Vertebrates

Pipe Cleaner Skeletons

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Invertebrates

Observe Invertebrates

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Plant Life

Gas Exchange in Leaves

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Phototropism

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The Human Body

Meter Stick Drop

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Life Cycles

Human Life Cycle Sequence

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Inherited Traits

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Life Cycles of Edible Plants

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Mealworm Life Cycles

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Habitats/Environment

Habitat in a Bottle

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Earth & Space

The Solar System

Orbital Paths

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Clouds, Wind, and Storms

Comparing Evaporation Rates

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Making a Cloud

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Soda Bottle Waterspout Model

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Minerals, Rocks, and Soil

Weathering Rocks

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Physical

Machines

Design Machines

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Pendulums

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Strength of Electromagnets

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Heat Energy

Build a Thermometer

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Insulate an Ice Cube

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Observe Convection Currents

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Sound

Identify Objects by Sound

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String Telephones

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Water Music with Soda Bottles

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Solids, Liquids, and Gases

Changing States of Water

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Process

Hypotheses (Skills)

Hypotheses

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Data Sheets (Skills)

Using Data Sheets for a Survey

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Using Diagrams (Skills)

Making Diagrams

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Draw Conclusions (Skills)

Drawing Conclusions

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Observation vs. Inference (Skills)

Making Observations and Inferences

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Identify and Control Variables (Skills)

Working with Variables

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Using Graphs (Skills)

Using Graphs

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Thermometers (Tools)

Measuring Water Temperature

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Balance Scales (Tools)

Using a Balance Scale

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Length Measurement (Tools)

Measuring Length

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Time Measurement (Tools)

Time Measurement

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Life

Food Chains

Paper Food Chains and Food Web

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Adaptations

Bird Beak Adaptations

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Controlling Water Loss from Leaves

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Design Animal Adaptations

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Food and Nutrition

Comparing the Fat Content of Foods

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Inside Living Things

Cell Models

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Changing Pulse Rates

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Lung Capacity

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Earth & Space

Outside the Solar System

Deep-Space Model

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Atmosphere and Climate

Air: Weight and Pressure

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Changing Landforms

Erosion

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Water

Settling and Sedimentation

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Water Collage

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Water Cycle Model

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Physical

Force and Motion

Rubber Band Forces: Energy and Mass

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Energy Resources

Solar Cooker

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Light Energy

Explore Shadows

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Refraction

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Shadows and Earth's Surface

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Spinning Color Disks

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Mixing Matter

Mixtures, Solutions, and Suspensions

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Electricity and Magnetism

Electromagnets

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Process

Hypotheses (Skills)

Hypotheses

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Data Sheets (Skills)

Using Data Sheets for a Survey

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Using Diagrams (Skills)

Making Diagrams

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Draw Conclusions (Skills)

Drawing Conclusions

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Observation vs. Inference (Skills)

Making Observations and Inferences

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Identify and Control Variables (Skills)

Working with Variables

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Using Graphs (Skills)

Using Graphs

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Thermometers (Tools)

Measuring Water and Air Temperature

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Balance Scales (Tools)

Using a Balance Scale

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Length Measurement (Tools)

Measuring Length

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Liquid Measurement (Tools)

Estimating and Measuring Volume

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