- Lab safety
- Using science tools to find volume and mass
- How to use a microscope
- Observing dyed onion skin, protozoans, hair, salt, and yarn under a microscope
- Adaptations: different types and why they're necessary
- Adaptation project: create a unique living organism with at least 3 physical adaptations and 1 behavioral adaptation
- Mixtures v. solutions
- 3 states of matter (we made Oobleck for this one!)
- Density Tower
- Density/Cartesian Diver
- How a food dehydrator eliminates the water and changes the look, smell, texture, and mass of fruit
- Engineering/force and motion: design a parachute to get our "astronaut" safely to the ground
- Electroscopes and static electricity
- Conductors v. insulators
- Circuits
- Circuit quiz cards (combining science, math, reading and writing)
- Water cycle: names of the stages and how water molecules travel
- Properties of soil: does one type of soil hold more water than another type?
- Stream tables (to demonstrate erosion and deposition)
It is my hope that every student goes into summer break knowing that science is everywhere and that it can be FUN!
Keep asking questions and exploring over the summer, Scientists! See you in August!