Science Archives - Page 6 of 9 - The Owl Teacher

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

Check out these top 10 mistakes teachers make when teaching science. Help your students be successful by knowing what to do in your science classroom!

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

Earthquake Experiments

One thing I like to put emphasis on during our earth changes unit is helping my students understand just how destructive earthquakes can be along

This foldable activity can be used for any idea in the elementary classroom and makes a beautiful display on a bulletin board - like a quilt! Plus- it's engaging for students! Check out this step by step tutorial!

A Quilt with Class!

Are you looking for a way to jazz up your bulletin board? I have always been a huge fan of any form of foldables, so

Teaching science with this mentor text is a great way to start off teaching about the scientific method and experiments! Check out the details for this book on this post!

MTM: 11 Experiments That Failed

Are you looking for a good mentor text to introduce the concepts of the scientific method to your students? Perhaps you are about to have

Teaching about plants during science does not have to be boring. Check out these ways to be engaging while teaching science and plant activities!

Making Plants Engaging Through Plant Activities

This month in science we have been exploring living things and more specifically, plants. Sometimes plants can be a bit boring. Flashback—my college course. The

Teaching science is a fun and engaging activity with this science experiment! Check out this idea on how to help students explore pollution for Earth Day or any science lesson!

Polluting a Fish for Earth Day (or any day really!)

For Earth Day, I had my students explore water pollution through the Freddie the Fish Activity. There are many variations of this on the internet,

Are you looking for a way to connect fiction and nonfiction text together while teaching about comparing and contrasting? This mentor text teaches about Hurricanes all while utilizing figurative language!

MTM: Hurricane!

This week for my Mentor Text Monday, I want to tell you about a book called Hurricane! I’m not referring to the nonfiction text by

Explore force and motion with these hands-on engaging activities that are sure to get your students' motor running. While you're here, grab a free activity!

Zoooooming with Force and Motion!

One of my favorite things about being a teacher is watching how excited kids get when something just “clicks” in their heads. I love

Engage students in learning about earth changes such as earthquakes and volcanoes with these hands-on elementary science experiments and activities. And this post even has a FREEBIE!

Teaching Earth Changes, with a Freebie!

Our planet is an amazing place and is so much fun to teach about! I hope your students will love the “earth changes” activities planned

Take Back Your Weekends

Let me help you take back your weekends without sacrificing quality teaching!

CHECK OUT THESE RESOURCES

View cart “Severe Weather Activity | STEM Activity Printable & Digital (Google)” has been added to your cart.

×