Use our Google Forms, filled with videos of experiments, animations, and questions to create remote learning assignments students can do at home! A walkthrough video is included to let teachers see how they can use these assignments with their students.

Grade 2 Chapter 1 - Properties of Materials. Students sort common objects according to characteristics such as shape, flexibility, and the material they are made from to investigate the question: Can you group objects based on their characteristics?

Grade 5 Chapter 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” bottle really empty? and Can you force the molecules of a gas or a liquid to be closer together?

Students use tiny drops of water on a laminated drawing of a cloud to investigate the question: What makes it rain?

Grade 5 Chapter 1 - Matter is Made of Tiny Particles. Students place M&Ms in water and in a sugar solution to investigate the question: Will an M&M dissolve as well in a sugar solution as it does in plain water?

Grade 2 Chapter 1 - Properties of Materials. Students conduct a series of tests on different materials to learn about their properties to investigate the question: What are some of the characteristic properties of paper, plastic, and aluminum foil?

Students make a one-drop puddle on their hand and observe the water evaporate to investigate the question: Why do puddles dry up?

Grade 2 Chapter 1 - Properties of Materials. Students plan and conduct an absorbency test on paper, plastic, aluminum foil, and felt to investigate the question: Which material absorbs water and why?

Grade 5 Chapter 1 - Matter is Made of Tiny Particles. Students dissolve salt in water and allow the water to evaporate to investigate the question: What process causes salt to dissolve in water and then the water to evaporate?

Students watch a video of a snowflake forming and use cotton swabs to make a model of a snowflake to investigate the question: What makes it snow?

Grade 5 Chapter 1 - Matter is Made of Tiny Particles. Students use water, ice, and plastic wrap to model the ocean and cold upper atmosphere to investigate the question: What are the main processes in the water cycle that make it rain?

Grade 2 Chapter 1 - Properties of Materials. Students use what they’ve learned about the properties of paper, plastic, and aluminum foil to investigate the question: Which materials are best for making a boat that can hold the most pennies before sinking?

Students use their breath to make strips of paper move a little and then a lot to investigate the question: What is wind?

Students make an insulating “coat” for a cup of warm water to investigate the question: How does a coat keep you warm in the winter?

Students design, build, and test a structure to block the sun to investigate the question: How can you design and build a shade structure to make an area cooler?

Grade 2 Chapter 2 - Liquids have Properties. Students do simple tests to observe the properties of water, mineral oil, and corn syrup on the surface of a zip-closing plastic bag to investigate the question: Can liquids that look similar have different properties?

Grade 5 Chapter 2 - Substances have Characteristic Properties. Students compare the dissolving of salt and sugar and then conduct a dissolving test on unknown substances marked A, B, and C to investigate the question: Can substances be identified by how well they dissolve in water?

Grade 5 Chapter 2 - Substances have Characteristic Properties. Students test four known liquids and an unknown liquid on two different paper surfaces to investigate the question: Can you identify liquids based on how they interact with different surfaces?

Grade 5 Chapter 2 - Substances have Characteristic Properties. Students test four known and one unknown liquid with water to investigate the question: Can you identify an unknown liquid based on how different liquids interact with water?

Grade 5 Chapter 2 - Substances have Characteristic Properties. Students repeatedly reduce the size of a clay ball while placing it in water to investigate the question: Does changing the amount of material in an object change the object’s density?

Grade 5 Chapter 2 - Substances have Characteristic Properties. After seeing the teacher compare the weight of equal volumes of water and corn syrup, students compare the weight of equal volumes of water and vegetable oil to investigate the question: Is vegetable oil more or less dense than water?

Grade 2 Chapter 3 - Dissolving is a property. Students develop a test to compare the dissolving of an M&M and a Skittle in water to investigate the question: Do M&Ms and Skittles dissolve by the same amount?

Grade 5 Chapter 3 - Substances Can Mix and React to Form New Substances. Students design and conduct a test using baking soda and baking powder with vinegar to investigate the question: Will baking soda or baking powder produce more gas when vinegar is added?

Grade 5 Chapter 3 - Substances Can Mix and React to Form New Substances. Students help design a test using baking soda, corn starch, and cream of tartar to investigate the question: Which two of the three ingredients in baking powder react to make it bubble when water is added?

Grade 5 Chapter 3 - Substances Can Mix and React to Form New Substances. Students combine an Ivory Soap solution with an Epsom salt solution to produce a solid “soap scum” to investigate the questions: What happens when you mix soap with hard water? and Is soap scum different from soap?

Grade 5 Chapter 3 - Substances Can Mix and React to Form New Substances. Students add laundry detergent powder (a base) and cream of tartar (an acid) to a red cabbage indicator to investigate the question: What can the color of an indicator tell you about the substances added to it?

Grade 5 Chapter 3 - Substances Can Mix and React to Form New Substances. Students combine citric acid with calcium chloride and citric acid with baking soda to investigate the question: What are the similarities and differences between the two reactions? and Do substances react in a characteristic way?

Grade 5 Chapter 4 - Mass in Conserved in Physical and Chemical Change. Students measure the mass of substances before and after melting, dissolving, and a chemical change to investigate the question: Is mass conserved during physical and chemical changes?

Grade 2 Chapter 4 - Float and Sink. Students place small common objects made from wax, wood, metal, and rubber in water to investigate the question: Do certain materials tend to float or sink in water?

Grade 2 Chapter 5 - Heating and Cooling. Students warm butter until it melts and then cool it until it turns hard again as they investigate the question: How do substances change when they are warmed and cooled?

Grade 5 Chapter 5 - Engineering Design. Students test citric acid and cream of tartar with baking soda to investigate the question: Which reaction produces more gas? and How much of each reactant should be used to fill a bag with gas to make a cell phone float?

Grade 2 Chapter 5 - Heating and Cooling. Students design and conduct an experiment to see if baking powder causes more bubbling in warm or cold water to investigate the question: Does baking powder produce more bubbles when it is heated or cooled?

Grade 2 Chapter 6 - Atoms. Student groups use four or five Snap Cubes to make as many different objects as possible to investigate the question: How many different objects can be made by rearranging four cubes?

Grade 2 Chapter 6 - Atoms. After an introduction of Snap Cubes as models atoms and molecules, students use Snap Cubes to investigate the question: How can Snap Cubes be used to make models of different molecules?