Standards-Based Investigations

Science Labs Grades K-2

Katrina Housel, Peter Hope, Faye Glew, Sue Barford

• Publisher: Shell Education
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN:
  9781425893026

Inspire your curious scientists with interactive lab experiments and self-contained activities to improve critical-thinking skills and conceptual knowledge. Standards-Based Investigations: Science Labs teaches your grades K–2 learners through the inquiry process, where they record acquired knowledge in their observation notebooks to analyze their steps, processes, and results through writing and drawing. 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 Can I Make a Thermometer?
• Page 13 - What Makes a Tornado?
• Page 14 - Where Does Rain Come From?
• Page 15 - Where Does Frost Come From?
• Page 17 - Where Does Water Go?
• Page 19 - How Does the Weather Change?
• Page 21 - When Does the Sun Rise?
• Page 22 - How Strong Is the Wind?
• Page 24 - How Can I Make Rain?
• Page 25 - What Happens When Ice Melts?
• Page 27 - How Much Water Is in Ice?
• Page 29 - Geology
• Page 34 - What Is the World Made Of?
• Page 35 - How Are Crystals Made?
• Page 37 - How Powerful Is Air?
• Page 39 - Which Is Bigger: Hot Air or Cold Air?
• Page 41 - What’s Inside a Pebble?
• Page 42 - How Can I Group Rocks?
• Page 44 - Astronomy
• Page 49 - What Does the Solar System Look Like?
• Page 50 - How Does the Moon Change?
• Page 52 - How Do the Sun and Moon Move?
• Page 54 - How Does the Sun Rise?
• Page 56 - Why Are Some Stars Brighter than Others?
• Page 58 - Heredity
• Page 62 - How Did I Get My Eye Color?
• Page 63 - How Are Babies Like Their Parents?
• Page 65 - How Are Seeds Different?
• Page 66 - What Are Fingerprints?
• Page 68 - Biology
• Page 74 - What Do Mini-Beasts Eat?
• Page 75 - What Is Mold?
• Page 77 - What Is Inside Leaves?
• Page 78 - What Do Plants Need?
• Page 79 - How Do Mini-Beasts Live?
• Page 82 - How Are Plants Different?
• Page 84 - How Do Feet Match Homes?
• Page 85 - How Do Beaks Match Breakfast?
• Page 87 - What Is in My Square Meter?
• Page 88 - How Do Seeds Work?
• Page 90 - Ecology
• Page 97 - Do Plants Need Sunshine?
• Page 98 - How Much Can I Breathe?
• Page 101 - How Far Can Plants Reach?
• Page 103 - What Is in My Square Meter Now?
• Page 104 - Diversity of Life
• Page 107 - What Are Fossils?
• Page 109 - What Were Dinosaurs Like?
• Page 110 - How Can I Group Seeds?
• Page 111 - Where Are Mini-Beasts?
• Page 113 - Can You Find My Grass?
• Page 115 - Matter
• Page 121 - What Can Goop Do?
• Page 122 - How Is Paper Made?
• Page 124 - How Can I Make an Egg Grow?
• Page 126 - How Do Things Melt?
• Page 127 - How Does Dough Work?
• Page 129 - Where Does a Wet Handprint Go?
• Page 131 - How Are Things Different?
• Page 133 - Does It Float?
• Page 135 - Energy
• Page 141 - How Fast Do Clothes Dry?
• Page 143 - How Can I Use the Sun to Cook?
• Page 145 - Can I Make the Snake Dance?
• Page 146 - How Can I Make Heat?
• Page 148 - How Can I Cut a String Without Scissors?
• Page 149 - How Do I Use Electricity?
• Page 150 - How Can I Light a Lightbulb?
• Page 151 - How Can a Battery Make Heat?
• Page 152 - How Can a Fruit Make Electricity?
• Page 153 - How Does a Flashlight Work?
• Page 155 - What Is Sound Made Of?
• Page 158 - How Is a Kazoo Made?
• Page 159 - How Can I Make Noise?
• Page 160 - How Do Shadows Work?
• Page 163 - Forces and Motion
• Page 169 - How Can I Make a Magnet?
• Page 170 - Is It Magnetic?
• Page 171 - How Can I Make It Move?
• Page 173 - How Fast Does It Fall?
• Page 174 - How Can Air Make It Spin?
• Page 177 - How Does It Roll?
• Page 179 - Where Is It?
• Page 181 - How Much Pull Do I Need?
• Page 182 - How Do Balloon Rockets Work?
• Page 183 - How Do Balls Move?
• Page 185 - How Can I Make a Shoebox Guitar?
• Page 186 - How Do Things Move?
• Page 188 - What Can I Do with a Balloon Rocket?
• Page 189 - What Do I Push, Pull, and Twist?
• Page 190 - References Cited
• Thank You Page