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What is one fun activity for an Elementary Science lesson plan that can incorporate safe and appropriate guidelines?
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Hi Gabriela I think a fun activity for Elementary Science that incorporates safe and appropriate guidelines is a water cycle in a bag. The students will fill a sandwitch bag up with water and mark where the water was when they filled it and you can use food coloring to the water so they can see the water better. Then they will tape the bags on a window. Throughout the week(s) the students will be able to observe the water cycle and how water changes.
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Thank you Paloma! This is a great idea that I had never thought of before. I will be adding this into ideas to do in my class.
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Hi! Thank you for sharing this, I hadn't thought of this before.
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Hi Gabriela! One activity that incorporates safe and appropriate guidlines is growning a plant in a plastic bag. I don't know the name, but I remember doing this activity with my second grade teacher. She had us all pick one bean, and put it in a plastic bag. I believe she also had us add a small wet paper towel, and then taped them to the window. As the days went by, we were able to see a little plant sprout from the bean. It was pretty cool.
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Hello Tzipporah!
My Science Methods course just did this project with radishes! We put the seeds on a moistened cotton ball in little plastic baggies with the tops open and wore them on necklaces so they could germinate with our body heat. They grew within a week and it was very cool to see! This lab could easily be incorporated into many different science lessons. Great idea!
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Hi Gabriela, a fun and educational activity is creating a simple circuit using a battery, light bulb, and wires. This activity introduces students to basic electrical concepts and circuitry. This will teach students about electrical circuits, conductors, and insulators. When the circuit is correctly connected, the light bulb should light up, demonstrating that the circuit is complete and current is flowing.
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Hi Gabriela! A safe, fun science activity I did with first graders is putting air, water, and rocks into individual bags and passing them around to each of the students' tables to introduce them to solids, liquids, and gasses. The students were engaged and enjoyed physically touching and playing around with the filled bags. Afterward, I had them complete a worksheet to identify whether each shown object was a solid, liquid, or gas.
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I have had the opportunity to watch a few lessons that used the Amplify Science Curriculum! Today in particular I had the opportunity to watch a lesson about why a certain breed of plant wasn't able to grow. While this is a multi-day lesson and I'm sure will build more on the overarching topic as to why this breed of plant isn't able to thrive, today the students were able to explore different types of leaves and roots. Each group had a bin of the same leaves and stems all ranging in different lengths, and qualities. The teacher had the physical manipulatives for students to measure, illustrate, and record any observations they made about the leaves and stems before coming together as a class to discuss their findings. They enriched and sparked more curiosity by asking students why Group A's measurements and findings were so much different from Group C's, etc. While the 'answer' wasn't revealed to students they were able to bring the lesson to a close by touching on the lesson objective once more. The students will then build their evidence, research, and compile their findings before concluding. This is a fantastic way to incorporate a safe science lesson based on curiosity, get this, it was done with second grade! I'd highly suggest looking into some lessons by Amplify Curriculum if you have that available!
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