Elementary School Science Teacher Guide
The following list of activities can be found in PASCO's Elementary School Science Teacher Guide. You may preview and download student handouts, as well as the Teacher Guide Introduction, which contains important tips, safety precautions, and a list of activity components for each grade level.
Grade Level: Elementary
Subject: Elementary Science
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Activities
01) Heavy and Heavier
In this lab, students use a force sensor to measure weight. This lab should help students recognize that an object's weight is not necessarily related to its size.
02) Near and Far
In this lab, students use a motion sensor to describe the position of an object as being near or far from another object. This lab will help students recognize that an object in motion changes its position.
03) Mixing Water
In this lab, students use a temperature sensor to observe that mixing hot and cold water results in a new, averaged temperature.
04) Light and Dark
In this lab, students use a light sensor to determine how light is related to what they see.
05) Exploring Temperatures
In this lab, students use a temperature sensor to explore temperature changes. This lab will help students recognize temperature as a measurement of how hot or cold something is compared to a standard scale (includes teacher demonstration and student groups).
06) Hot and Cold
In this lab, students use a temperature sensor to observe the property of temperature. Students will learn that this property can be measured using a thermometer or temperature sensor.
07) Weather Instruments
In this lab, students use a weather sensor to make measurements, determine weather conditions, and develop language for describing weather conditions.
08) Freezing and Melting Water
In this lab, students use a temperature sensor to measure the temperature of water in different forms. Students will learn that water can exist in different forms and can be changed from one form to another by heating or cooling.
09) Conservation of Matter
In this lab, students use a force sensor to demonstrate that the weight of a whole object is equal to the sum of its parts' weights.
10) Hunting with Light
In this lab, students use a light sensor to compare how organisms, including humans, are able to see. Then, they will compare the light sensitivity of organisms to what an electronic light sensor can detect.
11) Investigating Sound Levels
This lab helps students recognize that continuous sound is made by vibrating objects, and can be described using pitch and volume. Students will also explore continuous sounds with changing volumes.
12) Feeling and Measuring Temperature
In this lab, students use a temperature sensor to compare the results of measuring temperature to how the temperature feels.
13) Cars and Heat
In this lab, students use a temperature sensor to determine how the temperature inside a car parked in the sun compares to the temperature of the air outside the car.
14) Observing Clouds
In this lab, students use a weather sensor to show that clouds in the sky have properties that can be observed and described, and that students associate cloud formation with specific weather conditions such as temperature and humidity.
15) Can Plants Survive without Light and Water?
In this lab, students use a light sensor to explore whether plants need light and water to survive and what adaptations help them survive.
16) Temperature and Change
In this lab, students use a temperature sensor to determine how temperature effects the time it takes for a sugar cube to dissolve or an antacid tablet to react with vinegar.
17) The Water Cycle
In this lab, students use a weather sensor to measure the conditions in a water cycle model.
18) Conductor or Not
In this lab, students use a voltage sensor to test the conductivity of different materials.
19) Electric Circuits
In this lab, students use a voltage sensor to measure the voltage across elements in series and in parallel in an electric circuit.
20) What is an Electromagnet?
In this lab, students use a voltage sensor to determine the strength of an electromagnet with varying numbers of coils and magnitudes of voltage.
21) Determining Sound Levels
In this lab, students use a sound level sensor to measure the sound levels from different objects. Students will determine the sound sources, and determine the relationship between vibrations and sound level.
22) Keeping Warm
In this lab, students will use a temperature sensor to understand which materials conduct heat and which don’t, and why they do or don’t.
23) Heating Land and Water
In this lab, students will use a temperature sensor to identify the property that allows some materials to heat up faster than others. Students will draw conclusions about water’s influence on a region’s climate.
24) Chemical Reactions
In this lab, students will use a temperature sensor to measure the change in temperature as two substances chemically react.
25) Weather Station
In this lab, students use a weather sensor to measure temperature, dew point, humidity and atmospheric pressure over a period of time. Then, they'll identify any correlation between the data collected to observable weather conditions.
26) Dew and Frost
In this lab, students use a fast-response temperature sensor and a model to simulate the weather conditions responsible for the formation of dew and frost.
27) Microclimates
In this lab, students use a weather sensor to compare the temperature and humidity of various sites and determine the reason for any variations.
28) How a Greenhouse Works: Light
In this lab, students use a light sensor to determine how light or brightness depends on the angle at which the sun’s light strikes the surface of the ground and how this changes throughout the day.
29) How a Greenhouse Works: Heat
In this lab, students use a temperature sensor to measure the heat generated in a model greenhouse by altering the types of material that light passes through.
