“Dolla-Dolla” Bill, Y’all!”

Toothpaste Activity

Your challenge: Remove all the toothpaste from the tube

using only the materials provided.

WHY?• Enrichment• Substitution• An alternative because of materials• Students need to know that Science

can be done anywhere with anything

• "Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand."

• Relevance -Kids need to see the authentic purpose in what you are teaching them.

• Leveling the playing field-how to make sure all of your students can contribute and feel successful.

• TEK driven-everything we teach must be Driven by the TEKS!

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U

Everything’s a Dollar!

Just Google for more ideas!

Moon Phases with Oreo Cookies

Have a Discovery Box in your room

Nesting Activity

Your mission is to build a race car that is powered by only a balloon. Once assembled, conduct your trials and record your farthest

distance. Don’t forget to measure in centimeters! On your mark…Get set…GO!

Balloon Powered Race Car Challenge

SMART!Keep a class list on

the back of your badge

Just in case you didn’t know…let your kiddos draw and take notes on their desks and at your teacher table. Have your students bring an old

“clean” sock to use as an eraser.

Make a tornado! What to do with those old, broken crayons

Experimenting with “water beads.”

Salt Art

Help the Angry Birds!• Someone has come along and broken their

catapult. Can you help them design and build a new one? Use only the materials provided to build their new catapult. Once you have completed your model, test it out and record your longest distance on our leaderboard. Don’t forget to measure in centimeters! Good luck!

Our future engineers in action

Use two plastic cups to create your own ecosystem.

Animal Adaptations

Food Chain

Toilet Paper Rolls or “Kid Heads”

Buoyancy/Density

Did you know…you can make a packet of

ketchup float and sink

at your very own command while it's

sealed inside a bottle!

Classroom Management Tools

Who knew?

Keep Those Tools Out and About!• Importance of students seeing tools

around the room on a daily basis.

Picture by: Jessica BriceBarron Elementary

Salt and Pepper Shakers

Helps teach rotation and revolving

Mixtures and Solutions

Air is moving all around us!

Who knew you could

put soap in the microwave??

Scan the QR code below to access Session handouts on the SOL wiki

Headband Ecosystems:You may only ask yes and no questions to figure out what

ecosystem your animal belongs in.

Bust it Up!!!!

• Activity: Bust-a-Balloon Vocab.While we were gone, someone came in and ruined all of our

posters that we had created by taking the words off and putting them into balloons. They must have known that we were allergic to latex because they placed them all in latex

balloons! We need your help to reorganize our posters.

Activity: Paper TableYour challenge is to use the materials

provided to create a table that is at least 8 inches tall and strong enough to hold a

book• Brainstorm and Design

• Build and Test• Debrief