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.
The Marble Race
This passage addresses NGSS K-PS2-2 through a simple engineering investigation with marbles. Student...
How Things Move
This passage introduces kindergarteners to the basics of motion and forces, aligned with NGSS Standa...
Rolling and Sliding
This passage focuses on helping kindergarten students understand the differences between rolling and...
Observing Sunlight and Heat
This reading passage introduces children to the concept of how sunlight affects Earth’s surfaces. Us...
The Hot Playground
This passage explores NGSS K-PS3-1 through familiar playground experiences. Students observe how sun...
The Sun Shelter
This passage addresses NGSS K-PS3-2 through a practical experiment with sun shelters. Students learn...
Maria's Cool Shade Idea
This passage supports NGSS K-PS3-2 learning by showing how simple structures can protect plants from...
Warmth from the Sun
This reading passage tells the story of Liam at the beach, exploring how sunlight affects the temper...
Building Shade Structures
In this passage, Alex and Mia use a simple tent to block sunlight and create a cooler place to play....
Shade from the Sun
In this story, Leo and Emma use an umbrella to block the sunlight and stay cool while playing in the...
Billy's Bouncing Ball
This passage supports NGSS K-PS2-2 learning by showing how design solutions can solve motion problem...
Beach Day Science
This passage addresses NGSS K-PS3-1 by comparing temperature differences in materials exposed to sun...
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...
Push or Pull Without Touch"
This engaging word sort activity helps K-3 students understand the fundamental concepts of magnetic ...
Movement Solutions Word Sort
This word sort activity helps students understand different ways we control movement in our daily li...
K-PS2-2
Speed Changes Word Sort
This engaging word sort helps young students understand what makes objects move faster or slower. St...
K-PS2-2
Daily Movement Sort
This word sort explores forces through everyday actions. Students classify 12 common activities into...
K-PS2-2
Motion Actions Word Sort
This kindergarten-level word sort helps students understand basic motion concepts through familiar a...
K-PS2-2
Temperature Effects Sort
This classification activity helps students understand how temperature affects matter. Students cate...
5-PS1-2
Chemical Changes Word Sort
This classification activity helps students understand different types of changes in matter. Student...
5-PS1-2
Particle Movement Sort
This classification activity helps students understand particle movement in different materials. Stu...
5-PS1-1
Matter States Word Sort
This classification activity helps students understand how particles are arranged in different state...
5-PS1-1
Create Your Own Communication Device
This activity encourages grade 4 students to design and categorize features of a communication devic...
4-PS4-3
Patterns in Communication
This activity helps grade 4 students learn how patterns in light and sound are used for communicatio...
4-PS4-3
Light Reflection Pathway
This revised activity for grade 4 students simplifies the exploration of the light reflection pathwa...
4-PS4-3
How Do We See Objects?
This activity for grade 4 teaches students how light reflection enables vision. By matching scenario...
Waves in Action
This engaging activity for grade 4 students demonstrates how waves interact with objects. Students c...
Identify the Wave Features
This activity for grade 4 introduces wave features like amplitude and wavelength. Students match exa...
Build and Test an Energy Converter
Energy Conversion Devices
This engaging activity helps grade 4 students explore energy conversion through real-world devices. ...
Energy Transfer in Collisions
This grade 4 activity encourages students to ask questions and predict outcomes about energy changes...
Energy in Collisions
This activity for grade 4 students explores energy changes during collisions. Students categorize sc...
Energy on the Move
This grade 4 activity focuses on recognizing energy transfer processes. Students categorize examples...
How Does Energy Travel?
This interactive activity for grade 4 students explores how energy transfers through sound, light, h...
Motion and Energy Examples
This activity focuses on the relationship between motion and energy for grade 4 students. By matchin...
Fast or Slow?
This engaging activity helps grade 4 students relate the speed of an object to its energy. Students ...
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...
Movement Predictability Sort
This word sort activity explores how predictable different types of motion can be. Students categori...
Motion Patterns Word Sort
This engaging word sort helps students understand patterns in motion. Students classify 12 different...
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 ...
Reversible vs. Irreversible Changes
This 'Reversible vs. Irreversible Changes' word sort activity is designed for second-grade students ...
Changes in Temperature: What Happens Next?
In 'Changes in Temperature: What Happens Next?,' students explore examples of how heating or cooling...
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...
Building New Shapes from Blocks
In 'Building New Shapes from Blocks,' students observe how objects like blocks and puzzles can be di...
Designing Weatherproof Structures
The 'Designing Weatherproof Structures' activity teaches students to analyze materials such as steel...
Materials for Creating Safe Packaging
In the 'Materials for Creating Safe Packaging' activity, students explore the properties of material...