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Crayfish might not be your first choice of pet, but they’ll do in a pinch! Crayfish make a great choice for a classroom animal and can even be picked up. Just watch this video to learn how to feed and provide a home for this freshwater creature.
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Students can organize and record their observations of the stages of developing butterflies, from larva to butterfly.
So many processes in everyday life involve heat transfer; your students will be inspired to discover all the situations where it occurs.
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Teach students about the busy world of bees, butterflies, and other animals that do the vital work of moving pollen around with this free resource from McGraw Hill’s Access Science.
Fire up your students with this high-octane chemistry demo that illustrates combustion reactions.
Spark students’ curiosity about the basics of electric charges. Inspire hands-on educational activities that develop critical thinking skills that students can do at home or in the classroom.
Inspire students to explore the bacteriology tools used by geneticists, epidemiologists, doctors, archeologists, historians, forensic scientists, and farmers.
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7:01Students can use a hands-on demonstration to learn about the butterfly life cycle and a range of fascinating concepts like migration, photonic crystals, biopolymers, and insect endocrinology.
Here’s a five-minute crash course in makerspaces so all your ducks are in a row for when you decide to dedicate a space for making in your classroom.
Demonstrate the hydrophobic effect, surface tension, and hydrogen bonding with this fascinating underwater activity.
1:08Join the small handful of teachers who have a tarantula as a classroom pet and experience this yourself. Or just take a look at this cool video of tarantula molting.
3:39Learn how to use this innovative projectile motion apparatus to design repeatable experiments in your physics classroom and cover a variety of topics with one piece of equipment.
A hands-on way to help the students in your class investigate how gases behave when exposed to temperature, pressure, and volume changes.
6:47Learn how to properly prepare an aseptic bacteria subculture in order to multiply your bacteria and prepare it for use by more students at once, or with repeated experiments.
Students practice science observation skills, data collection, and more as they learn how to hunt for planets outside our solar system with this free activity.
Take the stress out of teaching hands-on science to students at home with this list of budget-friendly and versatile supplies that enable endless science experiments.
4:05Middle- and high-school science teachers: Give your biology students an introduction to brain dissection and anatomy with this short video, then head to Ward’s Science to get everything you’ll need.
If you want to demonstrate oxidation and reduction for your students, you can’t go wrong with this “blue bottle” activity. Sodium hydroxide, glucose, and methylene blue solution are all it takes!
