Category: <span>Science</span>

SCIENCE

Children are naturally inquisitive and they love exploring science. When you combine my passion for hands-on activities and their curiosity, you’ll definitely have winning content and ideas!

DON'T MISS THESE BLOG POSTS

These solar system scale model ideas are sure to engage your students and help them grasp the understanding of distance and relative size. Check them out!

7 Options for Creating Solar System Scaled Models

10 Mistakes Teachers Make When Teaching Science

Make science engaging and memorable with this list of ideas to integrate science into students' daily school routine. Science experiments are fun, but they're usually very short-lived in terms of engagement. I provide a list of alternative ideas that allow teachers to weave science into the school day for long-term impact and to get students used to a higher exposure of science vocabulary and concepts.

Creative Ways to Make Science Engaging & Memorable

Let's take a look at a handful of methods that we can use to make learning about Earth's systems and landforms smoother than a plain but a million times more exciting.

5 Constructive Ideas to Rock Landforms with Earth’s Systems NGSS

As both a child and an adult, I made the journey between Michigan and Georgia many times, and always by car (or big clunky van,

5 Lessons to Smash Earth’s History (with Fossil Activities!)

If you could bring your kiddos (safely) back in time to any period of Earth’s history, where would you go? Imagine the enthusiasm for learning

Explore several engaging methods that align NGSS with soil and fossil lessons and are sure to captivate your students' imaginations.

5 Ways to Nail the NGSS with Soil and Fossil Lessons

It’s easy to get excited about science in upper elementary classrooms. Another day, another creative science idea, right? You spend a while fleshing out your

With these challenging yet simple to implement activities, you and your students can have a ball in your science classroom. Engage your upper elementary students with these exciting magnet activities!

3 Magnificent Magnet Activities for Upper Elementary

Exploring magnets was always a favorite pastime of mine as a child, and for good reason. From the humble alphabet fridge magnets to the more

Diving into the world of magnets can be both educational and fun, as showcased by three of my all-time favorite upper elementary magnetism experiments!

The Mystery of Magnetism: 3 Magnetic Experiments

Magnets: how do they work? Okay, well, we actually do have a pretty good idea of how they work… But that doesn’t mean magnetism is

Teaching about solar and lunar eclipses can be a memorable experience for students in upper elementary science classrooms. With the right blend of hands-on activities, math exercises, and scientific observations, you can turn these celestial events into foundational learning moments!

Light Up the Learning: 7 Engaging Eclipse Activities

When was the last time you watched an eclipse? Personally, I haven’t seen any since August 2017, aptly named the “Great American Eclipse” by some

Pink image with a question mark made out of crumbled up notes. The words 5 simple machine projects to support student inquiry are on the image.

5 Simple Machines Projects to Support Student Inquiry

There’s a reason I mention hands-on activities in every single blog post: it’s the best way to learn! Whenever you’re in need of ways to

Simple machines are the backbone of all our fancy gadgets and systems. Help your students understand simple machines with these engaging activities!

Making Simple Machines Simple (and Fun!)

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: we are firmly planted in the Digital Era! Everywhere you look, there’s new technology

10 Tactics to Tackle Types of Energy

How are you feeling today? Did you wake up bright and early, or did you oversleep? Are you well-rested? Maybe you had lots of protein

Teaching Lab Safety: Gloves, Goggles… and Games?

Let’s establish the most important part right away: lab safety is serious business. As adults, it’s easy for us to understand that statement immediately and

12 Reasons to Make Time for Science TODAY

I’m going to say something controversial: teachers don’t have enough time for science. Oh, wait, did I say “controversial?” I meant obvious. For many educators,

The Art of Literary Engineering: Crafting STEM Activities from Books

This post contains affiliate links Welcome to the “Art of Literary Engineering,” where we explore the exciting world of integrating literature and STEM activities from