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13 Activities and Lessons to Teach Potential and Kinetic Energy
January 7, 2026 8:00 AM
Use these free lesson plans and hands-on activities to explore potential and kinetic energy with students! What happens when you stretch a rubber band and let it go? Why? Explaining how energy is stored and transferred and how that relates to the movement and momentum of objects in motion involves understanding potential and kinetic energy. This is an area of science where getting hands-on with the storage, transfer, and release of energy really helps… Read more
Teach Chemistry - Lessons, Projects, and Activities for K-12 Educators
October 9, 2024 6:00 AM
Discover Chemistry Lessons for Your K-12 Classroom What are you teaching this week? Next week? Next month? When do you teach chemistry? What topics do you cover to meet your curriculum needs? Mixtures and solutions? Chemical reactions? Enzymes? Substrates? Replacement? Catalysts? Polymerization? Green chemistry? We know educators spend a lot of time searching for quality lessons to fit their curriculum needs each year. You want quality materials that align with your… Read more
Teach Earth & Space Science - STEM Resources for Educators
October 7, 2024 6:00 AM
Discover Earth & Space Science Lessons for Your K-12 Classroom What are you teaching this week? Next week? Next month? When do you teach Earth & Space Science? What topics do you cover to meet your curriculum needs? The water cycle? The solar system? Weather and climate? Landforms and ocean sciences? We know educators spend a lot of time searching for quality lessons to fit their curriculum needs each year. You want quality materials that align with your class… Read more
15+ Plant Science Activities and Lessons
August 2, 2024 6:00 AM
Use these free lesson plans and activities to teach students about plant science—hands-on STEM options for all grade levels! Plant science, botany, plant ecology, and plant biology can be introduced to students and explored at all grade levels. To support you in teaching K-12 students about plant science, we have a range of resources that can work well in a wide range of settings: Lesson Plans Activities Student Projects Related… Read more
Forces and Laws of Motion Lessons
July 25, 2024 6:00 AM
Covering forces and laws of motion in science class? Try one of these five free lesson plans to help students get hands-on with physics. Teach Forces and Motion with 5 Free experiments Teaching elementary and middle school students about forces, motion, energy, and Newton's laws is an important part of standards-based science curriculum. At Science Buddies, we know that getting kids hands-on with these concepts can be a powerful way to help them learn… Read more
Curated STEM Resources for Teaching Science Curriculum
August 22, 2023 8:00 AM
Discover STEM Lessons for Your K-12 Classroom What are you teaching this week? Next week? Next month? Mixtures and solutions? Types of energy? States of matter? Forces of motion? Biodiversity? Newton's laws of motion? Health and human body systems? Magnetism or electromagnetism? Density? We know educators spend a lot of time searching for quality lessons to fit their curriculum needs each year. Not only do you want quality materials that align with your class… Read more
200 Free Lesson Plans for Science and Engineering
August 31, 2021 9:00 AM
Plan your school year with ease! Choose from 200+ free science and engineering lesson plans for K-12 teachers! Science Buddies first started developing NGSS-aligned educator lesson plans in 2017. Our free Lesson Plans help K-12 educators confidently teach science and engineering concepts to students. Today there are more than 200 plug-and-play lessons on our site to support educators teaching science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Lesson… Read more
2020 Nobel Science Experiments for K-12 Students
October 16, 2020 8:00 AM
Encourage your students to dream big! See K-12 STEM projects and activities that relate to the 2020 Nobel Prizes. Announcement earlier this month of the 2020 Nobel Prize winners brought recognition to exciting research in areas of physics, space science, health and human biology, biotechnology and genetics, and the global challenge of ensuring adequate food supply for the world's population. These annual awards honor the pinnacle of science,… Read more
Teaching Biotechnology at All Grade Levels
October 6, 2020 8:00 AM
Use these free STEM lesson plans and activities to teach students about biotechnology—options for all grade levels! Biotechnology involves using biological processes and systems to make or improve products. Using yeast to make bread is often offered as a simple example of biotechnology, as a living organism (yeast) is used to make a specific food product (bread). Many people think of biotechnology, however, in more cutting-edge contexts,… Read more
Free STEM Lessons that Work Well for Remote Learning
May 5, 2020 9:00 AM
Our free STEM lesson plans can help you plan successful remote learning instruction. Here are 12 picks for science and engineering lessons to consider right now. Schools in many areas remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and many schools will finish out the school year with remote learning. Students and teachers may not be gathering in traditional classrooms, but teaching students about physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, and other… Read more
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