Heat and Animals

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This article contains affiliate links.   This term the topic is heat, and I've gone through some concepts that relate to physics, chemistry, and geology. Now I'm moving on to biology! Earth's Temperature The first thing I went through in this class was the reason that Earth has seasons. The…
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Geology Rocks!

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This week I moved to a topic somewhat related to heat, geology. The kids were all going on a trip to some caves this week, so I wanted to talk about some of the things they would be seeing there. For this class, I talked to the kids about the…
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Reversible and Irreversible Change

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Chemistry This class covers reversible and irreversible changes. This is an introduction to chemical reactions. If this topic is for older kids, you may want to discuss it as reactions that only have one direction and go to completion. Exothermic reactions like combustion fall into this category. Many reactions like…
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Electromagnetic Spectrum Crafts

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This post contains affiliate links. Energy Transfer In the last class we talked about energy transferring  kinetically from one thing to another. In other words, moving molecules/atoms bump into other molecules/atoms, which causes them to move faster. This results in the matter heating up. Sound energy is transferred kinetically as…
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Heat on the Move!

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Energy and its Transfer Heat, light, and sound are all forms of energy.  One way that energy can be transferred is by moving atoms or molecules touching other atoms/molecules. Heat and sound can be transferred in this way. Heat will move from warmer objects to colder ones until both come…
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Feel the Heat!

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Heat We've got a new science topic today! The next few science posts will all relate to heat. These lessons were made for 3rd and 4th graders, but I think they could be used for older kids as well. Some of these topics are pretty challenging. This is kind of…
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Gases and Foam

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This post contains affiliate links. Mass of Gases In some previous lessons we have gone over mass and density differences in solids, liquids, and gasses. (Mass= Density x volume) We have looked at the relative density of solid objects, but this lesson goes over gases with different masses. For this…
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Molecules

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Electrons Around Atoms This class was a reinforcement of the last class on atoms. This class ran a bit short on time, but the kids really had fun and I think it would definitely make a great party activity. For the introduction for this class, I went back over the…
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Atoms and Elements

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For this class I am working on explaining electromagnetism. In the last class I introduced magnets. For this class I am going to introduce the atom and start to talk about valence electrons. The Periodic Table and Elements First I showed the class a periodic table and said that everything…
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