IDEAS Engineering Journal – Virtual Edition

The IDEAS Engineering Journal is meant to be used to engineer improvements to an existing design. Have you built a glider or a wobble head rattle writer or ANYTHING? Use this journal to brainstorm modifications, try them out, test your design with a customer, and come up with an improved final design. A few screen…

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ACS Inquiry in Action: Kinder Chapter 1 – Investigating the Weather

Students investigate weather-related phenomena including the cause of rain, evaporation, snow, and wind. Students also explore how a coat helps us stay warm in the cold and how blocking the sun to make a shadow causes the temperature to decrease. Lesson 1.1 – What Makes it Rain? Students use tiny drops of water on a…

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ACS Inquiry in Action: Chapter 4 – Conservation of Mass

NOTE: Those these are indicated for 5th grade, they align with both 5th grade and 8th grade AzSS standards. Through exploring melting, dissolving, and chemical change, students discover that mass is conserved during all these processes. Lesson 4.1 – Conservation of Mass Students measure the mass of substances before and after melting, dissolving, and a…

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ACS Inquiry in Action: 5th Grade Chapter 1 – Matter is Made of Tiny Particles

Through investigating solids, liquids, and gases and the phenomena of dissolving, evaporation, and condensation, students develop models to investigate matter at the particle level.   Lesson 1.1 – Matter Is Made of Tiny Particles Students squeeze a flexible plastic bottle filled with air and another filled with water to investigate the questions: Is an “empty”…

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