These free volcano and earthquake printables and hands-on activities are designed for preschoolers through early elementary at home or in the classroom!
Earth learning activities and free printables for kids.
This term has been a fun journey for our elementary homeschool with children in their second plain aged 6-12 as we delve into the second part of the First Great […]
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Kids can learn with every delicious bite of this Layers of the Earth Pudding Cup. These dinosaur topped treats make fun party desserts too. STEM made fun!
Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.
Free printable layers of the earth diagram, worksheets, label worksheet, hands-on activities, nomenclature cards, and more! Free science worksheets, games, and printables.
Free Earth Science Lapbook & Unit Study Ideas. I have the rest of the minibooks to go with the free earth science lapbook, which is Earth’s Structures. Also, look at my page Lapbook Ideas for more homeschool lapbooks.
Get your little ones engaged and creative with these adorable preschool crafts! Discover endless fun and learning for the whole year.
Christian astronomy is fun to teach in your Montessori inspired homeschool! Here are lots of great crafts, activities, and printables for your kids.
Engage students with these simple, fun hands-on science experiments that explore the earth science concept of erosion! Check out these engaging ideas!
These Earth Science Experiments will make learning about the Earth fun for kids. These science lessons are also a great way to celebrate Earth Day too!
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LOTs of fun earth science for kid experiments, worksheets, and activities for all ages - water cycle, crystals, rocks, volcanoes, weather, ++
This week we started our unit on space and we’ve been having SO.MUCH.FUN learning all about the Sun, the Earth, and the moon! Can I just tell you how impressed I am by how much information my kiddos have learned in just a few short day… It just goes to prove that when kids are engaged, learning takes place To begin our unit, I decided to tackle one of the biggest MISCONCEPTIONS I noticed my class was having…. Many of the kids believed that the Sun travels around, the Earth. Can you blame them? I mean every morning on my drive to school I see the Sun rising in the sky. I can totally understand why they think this. They “see” the Sun moving in the sky every day. So logic tells you, it’s the one traveling… Right, not quite! To help my kiddos explore this idea a little further, I decided to have them create their very own models. (Feel free to download your own copy here.) They started off by coloring pictures of the Sun, Earth, and moon. While doing this, we talked about the obvious size differences between each. The kids were shocked to […]
Free printable layers of the earth diagram, worksheets, label worksheet, hands-on activities, nomenclature cards, and more! Free science worksheets, games, and printables.
In this post, you will learn the difference between weathering and erosion. You will also can print out your free printable set to practice.
This atmosphere for kids science activity is easy and fun and full of playful learning. Let's learn about the 5 layers of the earth's atmosphere with a
The First Great Lesson awakens awe and wonder in the child, and gives them a framework to hang later physical earth and science lessons from.
Here’s our unit studies shelf with many of our Astronomy materials. This is our Solar System basket. I paper mache’d the foam planets from a kit in order to make them more durable. The booklet has a great song entitled “The Family of the Sun”. I used a product called sculptamold on this styrofoam […]
Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.
Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.
The First Great Lesson awakens awe and wonder in the child, and gives them a framework to hang later physical earth and science lessons from.
Learn about plate tectonics using an orange. This hands on activity is a great introduction to plat boundaries and tectonics for kids
This moon phase board was fairly easy to make. After making a run to the Dollar Tree and rummaging through our science storeroom to collect the needed supplies to make this, it was pretty inexpensive and so worth every penny! Essentially, this Moon Phase board allows students to visualize and better understand the cause of moon phases and comprehend the 2 different views that are often given on a diagram (view from space and view from the Earth). Up to this point, I've done a Lunar Lollipop Investigation, which I thought was great, but this beats it by a long shot! A large majority of my students don't really understand why the lit part of the moon doesn't face the sun on part of the view as seen from Earth on every moon phase diagram (see below). Even though I give many different examples and explanations, I still see a puzzled look on several of the students' faces. I really think this method will clear it up for even those puzzled kiddos. From this angle (see below), students can quickly see that the lit part of the moon is always the side of the ball that is facing the sun. Pretty uneventful, but definitely clarifies this view. But as students take the Moon Board and place their head through the hole, they are immediately taken to the view from Earth (their head being Earth or it could be explained that we LOOK out from Earth and see the moon as it revolves around the Earth). In order to give you a clearer idea of what the students will see, I placed my camera in the hole and continually rotated the board around counterclockwise (direction of the moon's revolution around the Earth). Here, you can see the new moon. Followed by the waxing crescent. The first quarter. Then waxing gibbous. Full moon Waning gibbous Third/Last quarter (oopsy....this ball got a little tilted when I glued it down) And finally, waning crescent. I have chosen to leave each phase unlabeled for my 8th graders. I provide each group with 8 Post-It Notes and have them write each moon phase name on a Post-it. They simply stick the Post-It in the correct location and call me over to check it. I am thinking about making one Moon Board with labels for my SpEd and ELL students until they get more comfortable with the names. To make your own, you will need the following supplies: Black foam board (got mine at Dollar Tree for $1) Box cutter Circular shaped object to cut around (I just turned my office trashcan upside down and started cutting!) 8 ball shaped objects to represent moon (ideas: ping pong balls [use black sharpie], Styrofoam balls (paint with black acrylic paint and sponge brush, wooden balls, etc....) Hot glue gun 1 ball to represent the Sun (larger than moon ball) This is optional; you could always just write "Sun" on one side of the board with a paint pen, but I think the added visual is great! Since I didn't have these made when I taught moon phases earlier in the year, I am going to use them when we begin to review for the state assessment. I can't wait to hear the oohs and aahs and FINALLY see the looks of confusion go away. For more great lessons, labs, and activities that related to moon phases, check out these products in my Teachers Pay Teachers store: Space Science for Interactive Notebooks Moon Phases and Seasons Task Cards Daily Science Starters for Middle School - Earth and Space Predicting the Sequence of Events in the Lunar Cycle Activity That's a Fact, Jack! Fact or Fiction Science Sorting: Motions of Earth and Moon Day/Night, Seasons, Moon Phases, & Tides Review Circuit Predicting Moon Phases Color-by-Number 8th Grade Science STAAR Review- Reporting Category 3 (Earth & Space) Moon Phases Reciprocal Learning Activity
We’ve all been there… you’re trying to just get that first cup of coffee in the morning, cook dinner, or even just driving down the road, when your preschooler tosses out one of their deep questions about the universe. I’ve now got two preschoolers, making for double the ponderings. After a…
Introducing land, air, and water is a basic, Montessori preschool geography lesson that helps kids understand the world around them.
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Montessori Worm and Composting Activities for Kids with Free Printable
Hello Everyone! What a great day to start a study on clouds!! Dark clouds this morning releasing a deluge of rain! By 1:00 beautiful clear sky with just a few cirrus clouds! Perfect example of our ever changing skies. I'll share our Cloud Unit in a second, but first I wanted to show some pics of our whole group math lesson. We are continuing our study of place value. After all the activities we did last week, it was time to see how all of this fits in relationship to other numbers. I pulled out our bigger than life 100 board and handed out some mystery picture clues. Each clue described a number in place value (tens and ones). The kids took turns putting their cards on the number for which their clue stood. When we finished putting all the clues down, a cloud was revealed! Use your imagination! It looks like a cloud, right??? The kids loved working together to create it!! I'm not even sure they realized they were growing their number sense!!! I did put together a little integrated cloud unit. We are going to try to get most of this in this week!! The unit also includes some poetry, another science activity and more!! You can get it if you click HERE!! Stay tuned for more cloud fun later in the week! Until then, have a wonderful week!! Thanks for stopping by for a peek!! Joyfully! Nancy
10 hands-on ideas for teaching earth changes and landforms in 2nd grade science with engaging STEM earth changes activities kids love!
Teaching states of matter in kindergarten can be a tricky! Here are some resources to help students gain a solid understanding of the topic!
Are you ready to discover new ways to engage your students in primary science? I want to help you. Sign up to my mailing list to receive the printable template for this fun and engaging dinosaur fossil foldable activity. I’d also love to send you ideas for classroom and home activities, and information about my […]
We know that millions of years ago the continents were not in the places are today. In this project, students will imagine what happens one million years into the future when two continents come together that are currently apart. How will the organisms on the new supercontinent interact? Students will make predictions and write the 'story' that will take place on this future landmass. They will then create fossils and bury them in rock layers that tell their story. Finally, students get to play archaeologist and dig up another group's fossil to attempt to reconstruct their story. This project is aligned with middle school NGSS standards and will require to students to synthesize many different earth science and life science topics. Your students will engage in high-level thinking and they will love the hands-on, creative aspects of this project! Materials required: Play Dough/Clay, Sand, Dirt/Soil, Loaf Tins, Cups, Plates, Spoons, Forks
The First Great Lesson awakens awe and wonder in the child, and gives them a framework to hang later physical earth and science lessons from.
