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Australian Curriculum Version 8.4 and 9.0 Year 4 Science Unit Forces
Help your students investigate how forces can be exerted by one object on another with this unit plan and activity bundle. Bring physical sciences alive as the unit plan walks you through everything you need to thoroughly cover the ACSSU076 (version 8.4) and AC9S4U03 (version 9.0) element of the Australian Science Year 4 curriculum. Fun for students, easy for you to implement and an irresistible way to help young minds explore how frictional, gravitational and magnetic forces can affect the mot
3rd - 5th
Physical Science, Physics, Science
Also included in: Ultimate Australian Curriculum 9.0 Year 4 Units Bundle
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4 and 9.0 Year 3 Science Unit Heat Transfer
Help your students explore how heat flows between objects with this unit plan and activity bundle. Bring physical sciences alive as the unit plan walks you through everything you need to thoroughly cover the ACSSU049 (version 8.4) and AC9S3U03 (version 9.0) element of the Australian Science Year 3 curriculum. Fun for students, easy for you to implement and an irresistible way to help young minds explore sources of heat and the concept of conduction! PLEASE NOTE: this unit has been updated to co
2nd - 4th
Physical Science, Physics, Science
Also included in: Ultimate Australian Curriculum 9.0 Year 3 Units Bundle
Newtons Laws of Motion interactive NOTES with demonstrations and activities
This document contains NOTES for students to take on Newtons Laws of Motion. They include several example activities and demonstrations for the teacher and/or the students to do! This makes note-taking more interactive and helps kids 'get' it! The notes are simplified for easy understanding! Pair this activity with a real world example Newton's Laws card sort! Newton's Laws of Motion Task Card Sort -Real World ExamplesNow part of an awesome bundle of force lessons for only $4.50 Newtons Force an
4th - 8th
General Science, Physical Science, Physics
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4 Year 2 Science Unit Push and Pull
Help your students understand the effects of pushes and pulls with this unit plan and activity bundle. Bring physical sciences to life as the unit plan walks you through everything you need to thoroughly cover the (ACSSU033) element of the Australian Science Year 2 curriculum. Fun for students, easy for you to implement and an irresistible way to help young minds explore how pushes and pulls can effect the movement of an object! Bring the fun back into learning about pushes and pulls as you guid
1st - 3rd
Physical Science, Physics, Science
Also included in: Australian Curriculum Version 8.4 Year 2 Science Unit Bundle
Interactive Coloring Worksheets: Visible Light/EM Spectrum - NO PREP
This Visible Light Interactive Activity is designed to help students explore the different wavelengths of colors in the visible spectrum and understand how light can be "broken apart" using a prism. With a clear, student-friendly layout, this product features two outlines per page, making it both printer-friendly and easy to fit into student notebooks. It’s a no-prep activity, perfect for saving you time while aligning with key teaching standards on waves, light, and the electromagnetic spectrum
1st - 12th
General Science, Physics, Science
NGSS
HS-PS4-4
, HS-PS4-5
, MS-PS4-1
+3
Magnetism, Magnets Physical Science PowerPoint Notes - Easy To Copy {Editable}
Magnetism Made Simple – Middle School PowerPoint Notes Make teaching magnetism easy with this clear, detailed, and ready-to-use PowerPoint! These student-friendly notes are perfect for middle school science and help explain magnetic forces, fields, and types of magnets in a way that’s easy to understand—and even easier to teach. What Teachers Love: ✔️ Easy-to-copy slides — perfect for interactive notebooks ✔️ Covers key concepts like magnetic poles, fields, attraction/repulsion, and electrom
5th - 8th
Physical Science, Physics
Intro to Motion Student Note-Taking Sheet | Distance/Displacement/Speed/Velocity
Make your motion unit clear and engaging with this student-friendly note-taking sheet designed to accompany the Intro to Motion Google Slides presentation. This guided notes resource keeps students actively engaged while learning the fundamentals of describing motion in physical science. Key concepts covered include: Distance vs. Displacement Speed vs. Velocity Scalars vs. Vectors Helpful examples and diagrams Practice problems with space for student responses This digital Google Drive p
5th - 12th
General Science, Physical Science, Physics
Electricity Series and Parallel Circuits Notes - Easy To Copy {Editable}
Electricity & Circuits – Middle School PowerPoint Notes Teach electricity with confidence using this easy-to-copy, student-friendly PowerPoint designed just for middle schoolers! From static shocks to full circuits, these notes explain key concepts in simple terms that stick. Why Teachers Love It: ✔️ Ready-to-teach & easy to understand ✔️ Perfect for interactive notebooks or guided lessons ✔️ Aligned with NGSS energy and circuits topics ✔️ Breaks down electricity into clear, visual sectio
5th - 8th
Physical Science, Physics
Hands On STEM Build a Spinning Homopolar Motor
Bring science to life with this spinning hands-on lab! In this engaging activity, students construct a simple homopolar motor using a battery, magnet, and copper wire to explore the interaction between electric current and magnetic fields. This lesson is perfect for reinforcing physical science concepts such as circuits, energy transformation, and magnetism — and it's a surefire way to grab your students' attention with real motion! Standards-Aligned Topics: Electricity & magnetism Forces &
5th - 8th
General Science, Physical Science, Physics
Simple Machines Coloring Pages with Notes | Science Activities for Kids| 10 Pngs
Make learning about simple machines fun and engaging with this adorable 10-page science coloring book! Each page helps students understand how levers, pulleys, wedges, screws, inclined planes, and wheels work — all through cute, easy-to-color illustrations with short, clear notes. Perfect for elementary science lessons, STEM activities, and homeschool learning, this set encourages creativity while reinforcing core physics concepts. 🌟 What’s Included: 10 high-quality black-and-white color
3rd - 5th
Coloring Pages, Physics
Forces Coloring Page with Notes | Educational Science Worksheet for Kids
Make learning fun with this Forces Coloring Page! Kids can color while discovering simple science concepts like push, pull, gravity, friction, and magnetism — each explained with easy notes. Perfect for classrooms, homeschool, and STEM activities. 8.5x11 inch ready to print pdf file 300dpiPlease Dont forget to FOLLOW and leave us a REVIEWcheck out my new forces colouring page bundles Simple Machines Coloring Pages with NotesAnimal Life Cycles Coloring Pages
3rd - 5th
Coloring Pages, Physics
Wavelength, Frequency, and Amplitude of a Wave
This is a fill-in-the-blank note pages that cooresponds with properties of waves.
Key Included.
4th - 12th
General Science, Physical Science, Physics
Just Drop It! A Potential and Kinetic Energy Lab.
The “Just Drop It” lab is designed to support the Virginia science SOL’s (standards of learning), but can be utilized with any science curriculum in conjunction with discussions about potential and kinetic energy. The lab has background information about potential and kinetic energy along with a “Lab report write-up” and the procedures to perform the lab. This is an excellent reinforcement activity and requires only minimal materials.
Standard 6.2
The student will investigate and understand bas
5th - 7th
Basic Principles, Physics, Science
Bill Nye Inventions and Innovations Video Guide
This video guide sheet goes with the episode Season 4 Episode 17 Bill Nye Inventions. It ask questions about the inventions discussed and how they have been innovated over the years. Fill in the blank, true/false, and sequencing are all on the worksheet. Over 30 total questions for your students to respond to on the sheet with an answer key included. It is also editable in case you would like to make adjustments, omit questions, or add a word bank with the answer choices.
5th - 9th
Engineering, Physics
Best Kept Tips & Secrets: How to Win at the Science Fair - Distance Learning
Go through the 31 pages that gives you specific science fair tips and a checklist of everything you need to do to win at the science fair. Creating a winning science fair project is not magic. Like science itself, it is the result of following a system and working step by step to achieve a great result. You are just as capable of producing a winning project as the students who have won science fairs in the past. Success of a science fair project comes to those who have ideas that work and th
5th - 12th
Other (Science), Physics, Science
Simple Machines and Work
This is a ditto that provides quick notes in outline format for students as they follow along with the teacher in a separate PowerPoint presentation I also created for this lesson. You can preview this presentation, along with 140+ other Powerpoint presentations, that I have created and successfully use in my middle school science class on my teacher resource website (http://www.PickinPost.net). This ditto and presentation covers information on the various types of simple machines and how to cal
5th - 12th
General Science, Physics, Science
Lecture Assist: How Sound Waves Travel
This 2 page lecture assist includes details of how sound waves work and how they can be heard. The description is easily taught and easily understood by all ages. I use this in my high school IPC as well as Physics courses. Also good for middle school sciences. This description of waves will not be found in your text books.
3rd - 12th, Higher Education
Physical Science, Physics, Science
Also included in: Sound Waves Bundle
What is Motion?
This resource explains how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affect the motion of objects. North Carolina Essential Standards 5.P.1.1- Explain how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affect the motion of objects 7.P.1- Understand motion, the effects of forces on motion and the graphical representations of motion.
5th - 7th, Higher Education
General Science, Physics, Science
Thermal Expansion Lesson
Included: Lesson Plan for Thermal Expansion AND access to ALL resources linked in thelesson plan -2 days -Lesson objectives -MA science standards -Activator/Bell Ringer (linked) -MiniLesson (linked) -Guided Practice (linked) -Independent Practice (linked) -Summarizer/Wrap-up (linked)
5th - 8th
General Science, Physics, Science
Energy Unit Plan - Grade 6 MYP Middle School Science
Get a jumpstart on your planning with this complete MYP unit plan for Energy, recommended for grade 6 Chemistry or Physics. This inquiry-based resource is designed to meet the needs of the MYP, but is equally appropriate for any middle school, high school, international, or homeschool STEM curriculum. This unit was designed to be taught over 4-6 weeks including lab activities and appropriate assessments. Although recommended for grade 6, this unit could easily be adapted for other grades.
5th - 7th
Physics, Science
Also included in: Full Year Unit Plans Bundle - Grade 6 MYP Middle School Science
Layers of the Sun FITB Notes and Labeling Activity - Sun Unit
Teach your students the parts of the Sun with this great lesson-builder resource! This resource includes a fill-in-the-blank note packet for students, a key for you, and also a "Label the Sun" activity page for students to practice what they have learned. This resource also includes a "Lesson Starter," suggestions for creating a full lesson around this resource. Resource at-a-glance: FITB NotesFITB Notes KeyLabel the Sun activityLesson Starter
4th - 8th
Astronomy, Physics, Science
Also included in: Sun Unit Bundle - Lessons, Activities, Study Guide, and Test
Sketchnotes: Physics Kinetic Energy Forms
Want something more exciting than a regular graphic organizer? This is it! For this set of sketchnotes, students can work independently or with the teacher to help learn and reinforce the different forms of kinetic energy. This is great to introduce the beginning physics topic or review it later in the unit! What's included:1. A blank template for students to write on.2. A teacher answer sheet with ideas of what could be used!This can be as student-led or teacher-led as you want it to be! Go thr
5th - 8th
Basic Principles, Physics, Science
Sketchnotes: Physics Energy Transformations
Want something more exciting than a regular graphic organizer? This is it! For this set of sketchnotes, students can work independently or with the teacher to help learn and reinforce the different forms of energy and their transformations. This is great to introduce the beginning physics topic or review it later in the unit! What's included:1. A blank template for students to write on.2. A teacher answer sheet with ideas of what could be used!This can be as student-led or teacher-led as you wan
5th - 8th
Basic Principles, Physics, Science
Mass, Weight, and Forces Outline Notes and Quiz
These are the outline-style notes that I used with my fifth graders when studying mass, weight, and forces. A teacher copy is provided with a student copy that has blanks that they must fill it. The student outlines can also be used as an assessment once the outline has been created. I have also included a 20 question quiz that I give my students based on these notes. I typically use these outlines after I have taught the material as a way to summarize what we have learned.
3rd - 8th
General Science, Physics, Science
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