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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 Chemical Reactions - 20+ Chemistry Lessons and Activities
October 15, 2025 8:00 AM
Use these free chemistry lesson plans, experiments, and activities to teach and explore chemical reactions with K-12 students. A chemical reaction occurs when two or more substances (reactants) are mixed together and result in one or more new substances (products). When teaching about chemical reactions, educators show chemical reactions in action and, when possible, let students get hands-on exploring reactions. With classroom science experiments,… Read more
11 Activities to Teach Water Cycle Science
August 27, 2025 9:00 AM
Use these free STEM lessons and activities to help students get hands-on building, testing, and exploring the science of the water cycle. With more than 70% of Earth's surface covered in water, water is one of the planet's most abundant natural resources. Thanks to the natural hydrologic cycle (water cycle), water on Earth is continuously recycled. In this process, water shifts between solid, liquid, and gaseous forms, occupying all three states of… Read more
Teach Genetics and Heredity with Free STEM Lessons & Activities (DNA Day)
April 21, 2025 8:00 AM
Use these free STEM lessons and science activities to explore DNA, heredity, and genetics with K-12 students. How are we like our parents? What makes apples and onions different? Why are some siblings similar in appearance or behavior and others different? How do our genes determine our features and physical characteristics? Can our genes also predict our health or the probability that we will get a disease? DNA holds the key to answering these… Read more
25+ Robotics Projects, Lessons, and Activities
March 25, 2025 6:00 AM
Use these free STEM lessons and activities to introduce and experiment with robotics with students. From designing and building simple robots to thinking about how robots can be used to solve real-world problems, these hands-on projects help students gain and practice circuit-building and robotics engineering skills. The free STEM lessons, projects, and activities below help introduce students to robotics, robotics engineering, and the kinds of… 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
19 Animal Science Lessons and Experiments
August 26, 2024 8:00 AM
Use these free STEM lessons and activities to teach about animal behavior, animal anatomy, and adaptations as you explore animal science K-12 students. The free STEM lessons and activities below help students learn about animals and animal science, including habitats, adaptations, animal behavior, and other zoology and mammalian biology topics. For key terms to review with students, see the list of vocabulary words at the bottom of this resource. For… 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
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