Hot Air, Cold Air Science Activity is a great experiment to watch the effects of hot air and cold air on a balloon. This activity is a great opportunity for kids to talk about what they can see and why it is happening. Kids will absolutely love this activity and will see, first hand, what effects hot and cold air has on a balloon.

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This changing slime is going to blow your mind - it changes color as you play because it is heat sensitive! A MUST TRY, super cool project for kids!

I have had some requests to post some file folders on TPT over the last couple weeks…so now you have them! This first set I posted is holiday themed, but I have several more sets in the works which I will be posting soon! I printed these out and put them together last week and my students were chomping at the bit to work on them as soon as I was finished! Gotta love my little worker bees! This set has 8 file folders which I will give you a preview of below! -Sorting Cold Weather vs. Hot…

Let me start by saying science has been seriously suffering this year :( With my crazy schedule, we literally have only 75 min a week to squ...

Easy to make and beautiful to look at, these ice sun catchers are a great cabin fever buster. With only a few simple supplies, children and adults will enjoy creating this fun winter craft project.

Mittens keep our hands warm, but are mittens themselves warm? That's the question Selina Smith of the Classroom Magic blog posed to students in her mitten investigation. Using inquiry science, students discovered that mittens keep our hands warm because they trap our body heat, but mittens alone are not warm at all. Selina pairs this investigation with the book, The Mitten, by Jan Brett. What other mitten investigations might students be able to conduct?

BEST site for teaching kids about all kinds of weather! (A real meteorologist has made this site complete with weather info, lesson plans, experiments, games, etc.)

Hailey had done this arts & crafts in preschool last year, and I found this again on another bloggers site. They are such cute mittens, a v...

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The children enjoyed the sensory experience as well as the creativity of making these puffy ice cream cones... The teacher added some glue and food coloring to shave cream.... And then the children mixed it all together...

Ideas for setting up an imaginative play scene at home - an ice cream shop. Tips for making pretend ice cream props and ice cream stand.

Hot versus Cold science anchor chart for kindergarten. Student decide which food/clothing/activity is usually associate with hot weather and cold weather. Used MyCuteGraphics for the clip art. SUCH an amazing website for FREE clip art. An amazing and generous resource! Thank you MyCuteGraphics.com!!

For each item on this first grade science worksheet, kids match a piece of clothing with the thermometer showing a temperature for wearing the item of clothing.

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CLICK ON THE BOOK FOR A FREE ONLINE COPY I love to combine science and picture books! Here is an inquiry science experiment you can try with your intermediate students. First, read the book The Mitten by Jan Brett. Ask the students why all the animals wanted in the mitten. Then let your students hypothesis about whether or not mittens are warm. This really makes them think. They will need to find the room, plain mitten, and hand in mitten temperatures. When they begin to look at and analyze…