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.
How Things Move
This passage introduces kindergarteners to the basics of motion and forces, aligned with NGSS Standard K-PS2. Kids learn...
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Rolling and Sliding
This passage focuses on helping kindergarten students understand the differences between rolling and sliding, as outline...
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Observing Sunlight and Heat
This reading passage introduces children to the concept of how sunlight affects Earth’s surfaces. Using a relatable stor...
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Warmth from the Sun
This reading passage tells the story of Liam at the beach, exploring how sunlight affects the temperature of rocks, sand...
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Building Shade Structures
In this passage, Alex and Mia use a simple tent to block sunlight and create a cooler place to play. By observing the ef...
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Shade from the Sun
In this story, Leo and Emma use an umbrella to block the sunlight and stay cool while playing in the park. By observing ...
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The Marble Race
This passage addresses NGSS K-PS2-2 through a simple engineering investigation with marbles. Students learn how ramp ste...
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Billy's Bouncing Ball
This passage supports NGSS K-PS2-2 learning by showing how design solutions can solve motion problems. Through trial and...
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The Hot Playground
This passage explores NGSS K-PS3-1 through familiar playground experiences. Students observe how sunlight affects differ...
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Beach Day Science
This passage addresses NGSS K-PS3-1 by comparing temperature differences in materials exposed to sunlight versus shade. ...
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The Sun Shelter
This passage addresses NGSS K-PS3-2 through a practical experiment with sun shelters. Students learn how designed struct...
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Maria's Cool Shade Idea
This passage supports NGSS K-PS3-2 learning by showing how simple structures can protect plants from sun damage. Through...
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Matter States Word Sort
This interactive word sort focuses on helping students understand the different states of matter through real-world exam...
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Strong Forces
This NGSS-aligned word sort activity for K-3 students focuses on comparing the strength of different magnetic and electr...
Movement Solutions Word Sort
This word sort activity helps students understand different ways we control movement in our daily lives. Students sort 1...
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Push or Pull Without Touch"
This engaging word sort activity helps K-3 students understand the fundamental concepts of magnetic and electric forces ...
Speed Changes Word Sort
This engaging word sort helps young students understand what makes objects move faster or slower. Students classify 12 d...
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Motion Actions Word Sort
This kindergarten-level word sort helps students understand basic motion concepts through familiar actions. Students sor...
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Daily Movement Sort
This word sort explores forces through everyday actions. Students classify 12 common activities into push or pull moveme...
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Waves in Action
This engaging activity for grade 4 students demonstrates how waves interact with objects. Students categorize effects li...
Energy Transfer in Collisions
This grade 4 activity encourages students to ask questions and predict outcomes about energy changes during collisions. ...
Temperature Effects Sort
This classification activity helps students understand how temperature affects matter. Students categorize various chang...
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How Do We See Objects?
This activity for grade 4 teaches students how light reflection enables vision. By matching scenarios like 'a glowing ca...
Identify the Wave Features
This activity for grade 4 introduces wave features like amplitude and wavelength. Students match examples such as 'tall ...
Energy Conversion Devices
This engaging activity helps grade 4 students explore energy conversion through real-world devices. Students match devic...
Fast or Slow?
This engaging activity helps grade 4 students relate the speed of an object to its energy. Students categorize objects l...
Chemical Changes Word Sort
This classification activity helps students understand different types of changes in matter. Students sort various chang...
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Particle Movement Sort
This classification activity helps students understand particle movement in different materials. Students categorize sub...
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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 such as 'thundercla...
Matter States Word Sort
This classification activity helps students understand how particles are arranged in different states of matter. Student...
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Energy in Collisions
This activity for grade 4 students explores energy changes during collisions. Students categorize scenarios like 'bumper...
How Does Energy Travel?
This interactive activity for grade 4 students explores how energy transfers through sound, light, heat, and electric cu...
Create Your Own Communication Device
This activity encourages grade 4 students to design and categorize features of a communication device that uses light or...
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Patterns in Communication
This activity helps grade 4 students learn how patterns in light and sound are used for communication. Students match me...
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Motion and Energy Examples
This activity focuses on the relationship between motion and energy for grade 4 students. By matching terms such as 'rac...
Light Reflection Pathway
This revised activity for grade 4 students simplifies the exploration of the light reflection pathway that allows object...
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Magnet Solutions
This engaging word sort activity for Grade 3 students explores how magnets are used to solve problems across different s...
Magnet Problem Solvers
This NGSS-aligned word sort activity helps Grade 3 students understand practical applications of magnets in problem-solv...
Motion Patterns Word Sort
This engaging word sort helps students understand patterns in motion. Students classify 12 different movements based on ...
Movement Predictability Sort
This word sort activity explores how predictable different types of motion can be. Students categorize 12 moving objects...
Observing and Predicting Motion
Observing and Predicting Motion' encourages students to distinguish between predictable and non-predictable motions. By ...
Heating and Cooling Effects
In this 'Heating and Cooling Effects' word sort activity, second-grade students explore how heating and cooling affect d...
Changes in Temperature: What Happens Next?
In 'Changes in Temperature: What Happens Next?,' students explore examples of how heating or cooling materials causes ch...
Reversible vs. Irreversible Changes
This 'Reversible vs. Irreversible Changes' word sort activity is designed for second-grade students to align with NGSS 2...
Hot or Cold: Reversible or Not?
The 'Hot or Cold: Reversible or Not?' activity engages students in sorting changes caused by heating and cooling into re...
Recycling Everyday Objects
The 'Recycling Everyday Objects' activity helps students understand how everyday materials like aluminum cans and fabric...
Communication Components
In this word sort activity, 'Communication Components,' students explore the essential components and materials needed i...
Materials for Creating Safe Packaging
In the 'Materials for Creating Safe Packaging' activity, students explore the properties of materials like cardboard, bu...
Classifying Materials by Touch and Appearance
The 'Classifying Materials by Touch and Appearance' activity engages students in sorting materials like silk, sandpaper,...