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Are your students struggling with staying focused before and after winter break? These four fun Christmas holiday science activities will keep them engaged and focused before and after winter break. Students will practice thermal energy transfer with a Save the Snowman STEM challenge, scientific method with a candy cane experiments, compounds with creating chemistry ornamets, and have a Christmas tree debate as the study natural vs synthetic materials.
- The crystal snowflake challenge (Christmas science ornaments) covers compounds where they design their own crystal snowflakes and compare them to real snowflakes.
- Operation snowman STEM challenge engineering design project covers thermal energy transfer.
- The candy cane challenge covers the scientific method allowing them to design an experiment that will determine which solution removes the stripes off of a candy cane in the fastest time
- The Christmas tree debate covers researching natural and synthetic Christmas trees and their effects on the environment to determine which is the best one to buy.
What teachers like you are saying
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐”This is my first year in 19 years of teaching that I am teaching chemistry. Thank you for this resource! You have saved me so much time in planning. I was looking for Christmas related activities to keep them engaged the week before break. These activities really helped!”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐”I have always loved Christmas Science. I enjoy spending the last day or two before Christmas break just having fun with science. The students have always enjoyed it as well. ”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐”This was a fun way to introduce chemistry to my 7th graders while also keeping them engaged around the Christmas holidays – I will use it again this year!”
The crystal snowflake project (Christmas science ornaments) includes:
✅ Teacher guide for doing the activity
✅ Student handouts to record observations
✅ Extention handout to demonstrate their knowledge of the compounds being created
✅ Answer Key
The save the snowman engineering design STEM project includes:
✅ Teacher guide for doing the activity
✅ Student handouts for thinking like a disciplinarian
✅ Prototype write up
✅ Final analysis write up
✅ Grading Rubric
The candy cane challenge includes:
✅ Teacher guide for doing the activity
✅ Pre-lab investigation write-up
✅ Student lab report write-up
✅ Grading Rubric
The Christmas tree debate synthetic vs natural activity includes:
✅ Teacher guide for doing the activity
✅ Student handout to record their information
✅ Student CER write-up
✅ articles to learn about artificial Christmas trees vs real Christmas trees
✅ Grading Rubric
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