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What makes things move? part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an inquiry approach to teaching what force is. Students will learn what push, pull, gravity, and friction are.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Subject: Physics:Classical Mechanics
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity

Investigating Motion: What Causes Objects to Move? part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a structured inquiry into why objects move and why some objects move farther than others. Students will make predictions on how far an object will move when blown on, blow on the objects, measure the distances they moved and record their findings.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Subject: Physics:Classical Mechanics
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity

Air Is Matter part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This is a series of investigations about air and its properties. How air exists all around us, and things it is capable of doing.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2), Intermediate (3-5)
Subject: Chemistry
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Field Activity

The First Law of Motion: The Tower of Coins part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity will provide the students with an opportunity to use inquiry. This activity will also help them to begin to understand friction and inertia,.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Subject: Physics:Classical Mechanics
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity

Will the cup of water overflow when the ice melts? part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an in-class experiment where students predict, observe, and summarize what will happen when ice melts in a cup of water.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Subject: Chemistry:General Chemistry
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity

Dancing Raisins part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an entire-class lab experiment that refreshes the concepts of sinking and floating, while introducing the concepts of bouyancy and density using the fizz from sprite (carbon dioxide gas) and raisins.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Subject: Chemistry:General Chemistry:Properties of Matter
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity

Observing,Comparing and Classifying Rocks part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activitiy is a lab experience where students observe, compare and classify rocks. Close examination of a variety of rocks reveals their differences and can also spark questions regarding their origins.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Subject: Geoscience:Geology
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity

Creating understanding how metamorphic rock is formed part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity gives a visual representation of how we are able to see the different layers of metamorphic rocks.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Demonstration

Investigating Liquids: Color Changing Milk part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This experiment is a lab activity in which students will learn how different liquids react when put together.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2), Intermediate (3-5)
Subject: Chemistry:General Chemistry
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity

Growing Lima Beans: Do We Really Need Dirt? part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an indoor lab investigation where students compare and contrast different growing environments for a lima bean seed and discover the optimal conditions needed for growth.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Subject: Biology
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity