Standards-Based Investigations

Science Labs Grades 3-5

Melinda Oldham, Josh Roby, Mary Beary, Katrina Housel

• Publisher: Shell Education
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN:
  9781425893033

Help students create scientific hypotheses and record jaw-dropping results with these interactive activities designed to develop their critical thinking and conceptual knowledge. Standards-Based Investigations: Science Labs provides high-interest content suitable for students in grades 3–5 with lab experiments using the inquiry process. Gaining scientific knowledge through writing and drawing in observation notebooks, students will record and analyze steps, processes, and results. This resource supports core concepts of STEM instruction and builds college and career readiness skills.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Credits
• Page 3 - Table of Contents
• Page 4 - Table of Contents (cont.)
• Page 5 - Introduction and Research Base
• Page 6 - Water Cycle
• Page 12 - How Does the Puddle Change?
• Page 14 - Where Does the Water Go?
• Page 16 - Where Does the Water Come From?
• Page 17 - Can I Build a Mini-World?
• Page 19 - What Is Wind?
• Page 21 - How Can I Measure the Wind?
• Page 22 - How Can I Measure the Wind Better?
• Page 23 - Geology
• Page 28 - How Does Erosion Work?
• Page 30 - What Happens to Frozen Clay?
• Page 32 - What Is Inside Rocks?
• Page 34 - What Happens to Chalkin Vinegar?
• Page 36 - What Is Soil Made Of?
• Page 38 - What Are Different Soils Made Of?
• Page 40 - Does Detergent Destroy Dirt?
• Page 42 - Can I Take Soil Apart?
• Page 44 - Astronomy
• Page 49 - When Does the Sun Rise?
• Page 50 - Why Does the Sun Rise and Set?
• Page 52 - Where Does the Sun Go Each Day?
• Page 53 - What Makes Night and Day?
• Page 55 - What Is an Orrery?
• Page 58 - How Do the Stars and Planets Move?
• Page 62 - How Do You Build a Telescope?
• Page 65 - Heredity
• Page 69 - How Do Genes Pass Traits?
• Page 71 - Why Am I Who I Am?
• Page 72 - Biology
• Page 78 - What’s in the Bran?
• Page 80 - How Do Mealworms Live?
• Page 81 - How Mini Is My Beast?
• Page 83 - How Do Plants Grow?
• Page 85 - How Does My Grass Grow?
• Page 86 - How Can I Grow My Own Lunch?
• Page 88 - How Are Seeds Different?
• Page 90 - How Do My Hands Work?
• Page 92 - How Many Bones Are in My Hand?
• Page 93 - How Can I Dissolve a Cookie?
• Page 94 - Ecology
• Page 101 - Can We Balance an Ecosystem?
• Page 104 - Can I Survive as a Consumer?
• Page 106 - How Do Mini-Beasts Work?
• Page 108 - How Do Mini-Beasts Travel?
• Page 110 - Where Does Litter Come From?
• Page 112 - Diversity of Life
• Page 115 - How Are Fossils Made?
• Page 117 - What Is Amber?
• Page 119 - What Can Tracks Tell Me?
• Page 121 - Matter
• Page 127 - What Can Air Do?
• Page 129 - How Strong Is Air?
• Pagre 131 - How Fast Do Cloths Dry?
• Page 132 - What Is a Conductor?
• Page 133 - What Is a Mixture?
• Page 135 - How Acidic Is the Rain?
• Page 136 - What Does Clean Really Mean?
• Page 138 - What Are Potato Chips Made Of?
• Page 140 - What Is a Hydrometer?
• Page 141 - Energy
• Page 147 - How Does a Flashlight Switch Work?
• Page 149 - What Does Positive and Negative Mean?
• Page 150 - How Powerful Is the Sun?
• Page 152 - How Many Reflections Are There?
• Page 154 - What Is Fiber Optics?
• Page 155 - How Can I Make aMagic Candle?
• Page 157 - How Does Sound Work?
• Page 159 - What Is a Rommelpot?
• Page 160 - Forces and Motion
• Page 166 - What Is Magnetic?
• Page 168 - What Holds Up the Magnet?
• Page 170 - Where Does the Magnet Point?
• Page 171 - How Can Magnets Be Used?
• Page 173 - What Is a Magnetic Field?
• Page 175 - How Can I Escape Friction?
• Page 176 - Which Way Does the Tube Point?
• Page 177 - How Do Electromagnets Interact?
• Page 179 - What Falls Fastest?
• Page 180 - What Does Electricity Doto Magnets?
• Page 181 - What Is an Electromagnet?
• Page 183 - What Is a Single Fixed Pulley?
• Page 184 - What Is a Single Moving Pulley?
• Page 185 - What Is a Block and Tackle?
• Page 186 - How Much Can I Change?
• Page 188 - How Are These Two Eggs Different?
• Page 189 - What Is a Wheel?
• Page 190 - How Far Does it Roll?
• Page 191 - Investigate That Question!
• Page 192 - References Cited
• Thank You Page