Physical Sciences Curriculum Resources
Explore Physical Sciences concepts with our comprehensive science curriculum resources aligned with NGSS standards. Interactive and printable resources for K-12 learners across all grade levels.
Matter States Word Sort
This interactive word sort focuses on helping students understand the different states of matter thr...
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Strong Forces
This NGSS-aligned word sort activity for K-3 students focuses on comparing the strength of different...
Movement Solutions Word Sort
This word sort activity helps students understand different ways we control movement in our daily li...
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Push or Pull Without Touch"
This engaging word sort activity helps K-3 students understand the fundamental concepts of magnetic ...
Speed Changes Word Sort
This engaging word sort helps young students understand what makes objects move faster or slower. St...
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Motion Actions Word Sort
This kindergarten-level word sort helps students understand basic motion concepts through familiar a...
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Daily Movement Sort
This word sort explores forces through everyday actions. Students classify 12 common activities into...
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Waves in Action
This engaging activity for grade 4 students demonstrates how waves interact with objects. Students c...
Energy Transfer in Collisions
This grade 4 activity encourages students to ask questions and predict outcomes about energy changes...
Temperature Effects Sort
This classification activity helps students understand how temperature affects matter. Students cate...
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How Do We See Objects?
This activity for grade 4 teaches students how light reflection enables vision. By matching scenario...
Identify the Wave Features
This activity for grade 4 introduces wave features like amplitude and wavelength. Students match exa...
Energy Conversion Devices
This engaging activity helps grade 4 students explore energy conversion through real-world devices. ...
Fast or Slow?
This engaging activity helps grade 4 students relate the speed of an object to its energy. Students ...
Chemical Changes Word Sort
This classification activity helps students understand different types of changes in matter. Student...
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Particle Movement Sort
This classification activity helps students understand particle movement in different materials. Stu...
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Build and Test an Energy Converter
Energy on the Move
This grade 4 activity focuses on recognizing energy transfer processes. Students categorize examples...
Matter States Word Sort
This classification activity helps students understand how particles are arranged in different state...
5-PS1-1
Energy in Collisions
This activity for grade 4 students explores energy changes during collisions. Students categorize sc...
How Does Energy Travel?
This interactive activity for grade 4 students explores how energy transfers through sound, light, h...
Create Your Own Communication Device
This activity encourages grade 4 students to design and categorize features of a communication devic...
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Patterns in Communication
This activity helps grade 4 students learn how patterns in light and sound are used for communicatio...
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Motion and Energy Examples
This activity focuses on the relationship between motion and energy for grade 4 students. By matchin...
Light Reflection Pathway
This revised activity for grade 4 students simplifies the exploration of the light reflection pathwa...
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Magnet Solutions
This engaging word sort activity for Grade 3 students explores how magnets are used to solve problem...
Magnet Problem Solvers
This NGSS-aligned word sort activity helps Grade 3 students understand practical applications of mag...
Motion Patterns Word Sort
This engaging word sort helps students understand patterns in motion. Students classify 12 different...
Movement Predictability Sort
This word sort activity explores how predictable different types of motion can be. Students categori...
Observing and Predicting Motion
Observing and Predicting Motion' encourages students to distinguish between predictable and non-pred...
Heating and Cooling Effects
In this 'Heating and Cooling Effects' word sort activity, second-grade students explore how heating ...
Changes in Temperature: What Happens Next?
In 'Changes in Temperature: What Happens Next?,' students explore examples of how heating or cooling...
Reversible vs. Irreversible Changes
This 'Reversible vs. Irreversible Changes' word sort activity is designed for second-grade students ...
Hot or Cold: Reversible or Not?
The 'Hot or Cold: Reversible or Not?' activity engages students in sorting changes caused by heating...
Recycling Everyday Objects
The 'Recycling Everyday Objects' activity helps students understand how everyday materials like alum...
Communication Components
In this word sort activity, 'Communication Components,' students explore the essential components an...
Materials for Creating Safe Packaging
In the 'Materials for Creating Safe Packaging' activity, students explore the properties of material...
Classifying Materials by Touch and Appearance
The 'Classifying Materials by Touch and Appearance' activity engages students in sorting materials l...
Properties of Communication Tools
The 'Properties of Communication Tools' word sort activity is crafted for first-grade students to me...
Building New Shapes from Blocks
In 'Building New Shapes from Blocks,' students observe how objects like blocks and puzzles can be di...
Light and Shadows Word Sort
This word sort activity helps students understand shadow formation through different materials. Stud...
Designing Weatherproof Structures
The 'Designing Weatherproof Structures' activity teaches students to analyze materials such as steel...
Choosing the Best Material for Building
In the 'Choosing the Best Material for Building' activity, students analyze materials like wood, ste...
Sorting Materials by Properties
In the 'Sorting Materials by Properties' activity, students sort various materials into categories s...
Materials for Water Resistance
The 'Materials for Water Resistance' activity encourages students to sort materials such as plastic,...
Light Behavior Word Sort
This engaging word sort helps young students understand how light interacts with different materials...
Visible or Hidden in the Dark
This NGSS-aligned activity helps first graders understand that some objects can only be seen when il...
Effects of Sound on Materials
This activity aligns with NGSS 1-PS4-1, teaching students about the effect of sound vibrations on ma...
How Sound Travels
Aligned with NGSS 1-PS4-1, this activity introduces students to how sound travels. In 'How Sound Tra...
Light-Dependent Visibility
Aligned with NGSS 1-PS4-2, this activity helps students understand how light affects what we see. In...