Here are some lessons, activities and experiments that students in all grades can enjoy! Try as many as you want! Keep exploring and have fun!!

**Please ask permission before using any supplies for these experiments and activities.**

Experiments:

• Make your own lava lamp!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0jic2Q64So
• https://www.123homeschool4me.com/fun-things-for-kids-make-lava-lamp_62/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P02ILUcknY
• DIY Lego Zipline! 
• https://www.123homeschool4me.com/lego-zipline-kids-activity_1/
• Make you own Ice Cream in a bag!
• https://www.123homeschool4me.com/how-to-make-ice-cream-in-bag_34/
• Make your own Silly Grass craft!
• https://www.123homeschool4me.com/silly-grass-craft-for-kids/
• Try your own Water balloon science experiment!  – density (using different oils in water balloons)
• https://www.123homeschool4me.com/water-balloon-science-experiment_14/

• Make your own Bubbles!

• https://www.123homeschool4me.com/amazing-bubble-artwork-for-kids_80/

•  Make your own milk planet!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIks913QYbI
• Make your own Marhmallow Shooter!
• https://www.123homeschool4me.com/marshmallow-shooter-kids-activity-over_50/
• Make your own lava lamp!
• https://www.123homeschool4me.com/fun-things-for-kids-make-lava-lamp_62/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P02ILUcknY
• Build your own catapult!

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpLFC_SOpXs

• Build your own rocket! 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjU1IAgRcQg
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJlUwAqZXjk
• Pick up an ice cube with a string!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nEJ_FN46NQ
• Make your own marble run!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d4g3hzSDy8
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR7o5g369FU
• Make your own fossil!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKN5m5_A6zc
• Make your own volcano!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNz4DyUOsAw
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFSYLQkMR7U
• Create your own butterfly!
  https://mysteryscience.com/trending/mystery-6/butterflies-adaptation/258#slide-id-4277
• Make your own color changing celery! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YovAfRptI9A
• Make your own flower out of paper! https://mysteryscience.com/trending/mystery-15/plant-movement/342?nopopup=true&s=md%3Aspring-flowers&mdemail=chris%40kryteria.com&f=1#slide-id-6161
• Make your own “apple trapper”.https://mysteryscience.com/trending/mystery-17/traits-selection/420?mdemail=chris%40kryteria.com&nopopup=true&r=43166334&s=md%3A#slide-id-6706
• Fun activities using mirrors. https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/twins#slide-id-7361
• Put your fingers on your wrist and see if you can feel your heartbeat. How many beats can you count in one minute? Next, run in place for 15 seconds. Does your heartrate go up?
• Try this… yawn and see if you can get someone in your family to yawn as well. If you have a pet, see if it works with them too!
• Make your own boat! Using recycled materials, make a boat that can really float. https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/old-earth#slide-id-8297
• Make a Rainbow. Try this experiment to mix colors together in cups of water with food coloring and paper towels to make your very own rainbow! Be sure to leave some time for this experiment. You will need to let your materials sit overnight. But it will be worth it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGwG--GZEfw
• Make your own leak proof bag! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWYzFbCXouo
• Help pick out and make a snack that is healthy for your heart. Be sure to make enough to share with someone else in your family, enjoy!
• Invent a new toy! You will have 10 minutes to plan what you might want to build and then 10 minutes to gather supplies from around your house. (Think basement and garage too!) Next you will have 30 minutes to invent a new toy of your own. I would suggest doing this experiment with other members of your family. When your inventions are finished, feel free to send me a picture, I would love to see your inventions!! (cmitchell@stannesgcschool.org)  
• Make a bird feeder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AtclnI5ABg
• DIY Homemade Plastic Water Bottle Bird Feeder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EitavSRNg
• Make Blubber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-odc1nUihw
• Black pepper, water, soap experiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djxmuDz8c3s
• Make your own planets using pony beads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKs-97Lvy7U
• The dry Sock Trick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH_q1DR5-gA
• Craft your own Insect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O7RV-4zYRs
• How High can you Stack Cups? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR2OR3coiX4
• Washing hands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhFPaZfNhbg
• How to Make a Rainbow. https://mysteryscience.com/trending/mystery-5//light-color/209?nopopup=true&s=md%3Arainbow-activity&mdemail=chris%40kryteria.com#slide-id-4083
• How to make milk planets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIks913QYbI
• Making Obleck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw8KaHglokQ
• Make your own butterfly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmPTMNBIz0o
• Dissecting Owl Pellets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9azuEJnlQs https://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/barn-owl-facts/barn-owl-pellet-analysis/ 
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  • Recipe for Play Dough

1. 2 cups of flour
2. 1 cup of salt
3. 1 cup of water
4. 1 tablespoon of oil (can add food coloring)

Recipe for Fossil Dough

1. 1 cup of coffee grinds (used)
2. 1 cup of flour
3. 1/2 cup of salt
4. 1/2 cup of coffee

Activities:

• Take a hike in your own backyard or on your block. See if you can find any spiders or spider webs. If yes, see how close you can get and take a picture or draw one. How many spiders are in the web, one or more than one?
• Check out these 5 awesome magic tricks!
  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/unicorns#slide-id-8690
• Try and make a pizza with your family. Many supermarkets have pizza dough you can buy (I usually buy mine at Stop and Shop). Choose some toppings like sauce, cheese, pepperoni or chicken. Make enough for your family to have for dinner one night.
• Walk around your house and count how many windows you have that are made out of glass. Once you finish with that, see if you can find at least 5 more different things that are made out of glass. I’ll give you one, a water glass. What else can you find?
• Check out these 5 types of fish. Some even wrestle with their mouths!https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/fish-sleep#slide-id-5980
• Discover what is inside 5 different animal’s mouths! https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/yawn#slide-id-6028
• See if you can tell the difference between different animals that look like a common animal but are actually something else. Good luck!
  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/eyebrows#slide-id-618
• Take a walk in your neighborhood with an adult or visit your own backyard. Do you see any birds? Can you see any bird’s nests? Can you see any baby birds? If you see any, don’t touch them, just look at them. Be very quiet so they don’t fly away. Draw a picture of a bird or a bird’s nest if you see one on your walk or in your backyard. 
• View 5  animals that use their skin, bones or shells for protection.https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/snake-skin#slide-id-7831
• Record the temperature for 5 days straight. You can either use your own thermometer or look up the temperature on the news or internet. If you are looking up the temperature, make sure you are using the same location each day. Once you have all 5 temperatures, record them in order, putting the coldest temperature first. 
• Explore fun facts about the cold, like hotels made out of ice, even the beds. https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/coldest-place#slide-id-5419 .
• Check out some really cool fish and flowers with clear skin and petals, like eels and butterflies. https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/heart-blood#slide-id-7747
• Go outside with an adult and look at the sky and the clouds. Does the sky look blue? Does it look different at different times of the day? Are the clouds all the same shape and size? Can you see the moon even in the day time? Can you see clouds every day? Discuss these observations with your families. Enjoy the fresh air and the beauty of nature!
• Go outside and explore nature. See how many signs of life you can find in your backyard. Can you see any birds, squirrels, raccoons, butterflies, dogs, cats? Now take a closer look. If you dig into some dirt, can you find any ants, spiders, worms? Are there any bugs floating in water around your yard? See how many signs of life you can find right in your own backyard. Discuss these observations with your families. 
• Erosion and Soil. See how plants in the soil make a big difference in the amount of erosion that happens on earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im4HVXMGI68
• Heart Function. https://mysteryscience.com/trending/mystery-4/heart-body-structure-function/172?nopopup=true&s=md%3Aheart-activity&mdemail=chris%40kryteria.com#slide-id-3923
• Go outside with an adult and take a walk in your neighborhood and look at all the different trees. Are they all the same size? Are there any leaves growing yet? Do you see any birds or bird’s nests? How about squirrels? Are these the same trees you used to collect those leaves you brought into the lab in the fall? Enjoy the sunshine and the beauty of nature.

Lessons/Labs:

• How does water move to different parts of the plant to feed it?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIug9Foou3s
• Has a shooting star ever landed on someone?
  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/shooting-stars#slide-id-6850
• How were emojis created?
  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/emojis-creation
• How can you tell if something is a dinosaur?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l4w9HhRIrY
• What happened to the dinosaurs?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXwoy-Ce1ZE
• Who invented pizza?
  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/pizza#slide-id-6011
• How is glass made?
  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/glass#slide-id-5489
• Are unicorns real?
  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/unicorns#slide-id-8702
• Why are butterflies so colorful?
  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/butterflies
• What is the biggest spider in the world?
  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/biggest-spider
• How do volcanos form and erupt?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Oq9_DU1Mc
• What is a paleontologist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FjyKmpmQzc

• Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koota_lwU_4
• How can we use ramps to help move things?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3COvm0TtxWg
• Can you make lava?
  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/lava
• Can animals get sunburn?  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/animal-sunburn
• How do flowers bloom in the spring? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/spring-flowers#slide-id-8722
• Do fish sleep? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/fish-sleep#slide-id-5977
• Why do we yawn? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/yawn#slide-id-6048
• Why do we have eyebrows? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/eyebrows#slide-id-6169
• Why do birds lay eggs in the spring? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/birds-spring#slide-id-8400
• What is the biggest apple in the world? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/biggest-apple
• Why do snakes shed their skin? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/snake-skin#slide-id-7824
• What is it like to be a twin? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/twins#slide-id-7351
• How does your heart pump blood? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/heart-blood#slide-id-7740
• Why is the sky blue? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/sky-blue
• Why does it hurt when we get water up our nose?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5SMzNDf0z8
• Is Earth the only planet with life? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/planet-earth
• How deep does the ocean go? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/deep-ocean
• How is syrup made? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/syrup#slide-id-6957
• How old is the Earth? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/old-earth#slide-id-8308
• Can animal’s laugh? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/animals-laugh#slide-id-7575
• How do we keep our hearts healthy? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/heart-blood#slide-id-7740
• What is the biggest tree in the world? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/biggest-tree#slide-id-7405
• How are toys invented? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/toys#slide-id-7715
• How do bees make honey? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/honey-bees#slide-id-6490
• Why do birds lay eggs in the spring? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/birds-spring
• Why do Bears Hibernate? https://mysteryscience.com/trending/mystery-20/adaptations-behavior/474?r=43166334#slide-id-7433
• How do germs get inside your body? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/germs#slide-id-8055
• Is Pluto a planet? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/pluto#slide-id-5781
• All About Pluto. https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/pluto-minor-planet#slide-id-6445
• Do Fish Drink Water? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8moIbGdnc
• Where do Insects go in the Winter? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/winter-bugs#slide-id-5445
• Engineering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM04n0-QtNo
• How do Soap and Water Make Us Clean? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XntinCBEC9U
• How Are Rainbows Made? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/rainbows?loc=mini-lesson-button#slide-id-8212
• Our Planets in Outer Space. Earth is the only planet with life.  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/planet-earth
• States of Matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37pir0ej_SE  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmm1J2yI9tk
• Why are Butterflies so Colorful? https://mysteryscience.com/trending/mystery-6/butterflies-adaptation/258?r=43166334#slide-id-4278
• Why do Owls Say Hoo? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/owls-hoo

Earth Day

• Protect Our Planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhyXx1kCz0
• Plant a Tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wAJ8vuhLGA
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOvcW8l3RzE\

• How can we reduce, reuse and recycle for Earth day and every day?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasbYWF4_S8
• Look through some of your garbage with an adult. Try and get to the garbage before it makes it to the garbage pail, you don’t want to use anything very dirty! See if you can find something that you can reuse. Maybe it is something simple like a piece of paper. If it is written on one side, turn it over and draw a beautiful picture on the other side. Maybe it is an empty toilet paper roll. You can use it as a telescope to look at the clouds in the sky, you can turn it into a bird feeder or even paint it and hang in your house or yard as a fun decoration. The possibilities are endless! 
• How can we care for our environment? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0lQ3ljjl40
• Clean up or plant something new in your yard. Find an adult to help you and either plant flowers or vegetables or even a tree. If you are not able to plant something new, perhaps you can pull out unwanted weeds in your yard. You can even clean up anything that is garbage in your yard that perhaps has blown there by the wind. Help keep your property looking beautiful. This is a great project to include many members of your family. Make a day out of cleaning up your yard and maybe even planting something new. 
• What are some recycling tips we can use in our houses?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mthdaXYpYdY
• How does recycling work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRVPum9cp4
• Help with your families recycling. Help sort through your garbage. Make sure whatever can be recycled, is getting recycled. You can reuse or repurpose items. Use something you have recycled to either make something new or use pieces of it to create something different. 
• What can we do with our recycled materials for Earth Day?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PePymheJcbc
• Use recycled materials to create a bird feeder to hang in your yard. You may use any materials you can find around your house. Remember, you are not going to the store to buy anything new, so you will need to ask a parent’s permission first and then use those materials to create your bird feeder. 
• How can we help our environment for Earth Day?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PePymheJcbc
• Help with your family recycling at home. Concentrate on your left over food that will decompose. Take some of your left over fruit and vegetable peels and create a compost pile to use in your own garden or yard. 

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