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Looking for a way to get your students building relationships and thinking about science during the first weeks of school? Save time this year with these ready-to-go back to school science activities.
These back to school science activities will help your students build relationships with their fellow peers, get them thinking about science, and applying their science skills during the first weeks of school.
It also includes a bonus design a lab coat and design a beaker get to know you activity that is only found in the bundle.
What teachers like you are saying about these back to school science activities:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“I am using these activities in my freshman physical science class. These activities are well planned, and engaged my students.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐”My students loved these team building activities!”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐”This activity was a great way to work on CER without being too “science-y.” I teach 9th grade instructional biology and this was just the right amount of science and writing. My students lose interest very quickly and solving the mystery kept them guessing. After every piece of evidence, they were trying to figure out how he died. Great resource!”
These 6 back to school science activities are designed to take you through your first three weeks of the year. Click the Preview to learn more.
✅ Start by doing some fun team-building activities
➡ Four different team-building activities. You can do all four or choose which one you want
➡ Basic presentation that has students making observations, inferences, predictions, reflections, and analysis
➡ Reflection handouts to be filled out after they finish the activity
✅ Then have them discover what traits successful people have in common with the famous failure activity
➡ Lesson Guide
➡ Video Highlighting various people of different backgrounds and ethnicities
➡ Famous Failures Presentation
➡ 16 Readings about successful people and their failures along the way
➡ Student Handout to go with the presentation
➡ 24 Famous Failures Posters (8.5″ x 11″)
➡ Digital version
✅ Next do a fun Get to know you activity where they can design a lab coat or a beaker. (These activities are only found in the bundle)
➡ Design a lab coat get to know you that can also be used as a name tent
➡ Digital design a beaker get to know you
➡ Student survey google form
✅ Move on to getting them introduced to CER by having them solve the case and look at police reports and forensic analysis
➡ Picture of the crime scene
➡ Police Report
➡ List of suspects
➡ Forensic Reports: fingerprint, chemical (includes drug and alcohol levels), blood, autopsy, and DNA
➡ Language support sentence starters
➡ Student journal (print and digital format)
➡ Grading rubric.
✅ Then, have them go through the steps of the scientific method as they test the claims of paper towel commercials to discover which paper towel is the best
➡ Student handout
➡ Directions to guide students
➡ Teacher guide
✅ Finally, get students thinking like engineers as they design the best coffee cup to keep the coffee hot
➡ Student handouts
➡ Directions to guide students
➡ Teacher guide
Everything you need to start your year off right.
This back to school science activities bundle also comes with some helpful templates to help them write their claim, evidence, reasonings during the year, and lab reports. Plus some resources for using technology in the classroom and getting to know your students.
