Thanksgiving Science Stations Lab – Editable & Digital – Middle School Science

Description

Do you need differentiated Thanksgiving science stations activities for your middle school science class? Perfect for a middle school physical science, life science or Earth/Space science class. This resource will help you reach and assess your students in a multitude of ways. This resource includes 8 stations with minimal prep involved.

 

There is a printable version, editable PowerPoint version and a Digital Google Slides™ version that will help you save on time and paper!

 

The 9 Thanksgiving stations included are:

1. Heat it Up! – Students will identify methods used in cooking Thanksgiving meals.

2. Football Forces – Students will identify examples of Newton’s Laws of Motion in Football.

3. Pumpkin Spice Solubility – Students will perform a mini experiment in which they test the solubility rate of pumpkin spice based on temperature.

4. Pumpkin Decomposition – Students will discuss how decomposition and nutrient cycling occurs in pumpkins.

5. Cranberry Symbiosis – Students will identify and explain the symbiotic relationship between bees and cranberry bogs.

6. Vegetable Cells – Students will observe vegetable cells under a microscope and identify how key structures, like cell walls, help support vegetable growth.

7. Turkey Adaptations – Students will explore and explain various survival turkey adaptations.

8. The Season of Fall – Students will explain why temperatures and daylight hours changes during Fall due to Earth’s tilt.

9. Thanksgiving Carbon Cycle – Students will read an article about how Thanksgiving affects the carbon cycle.

 

*Each station should take students between 8-10 minutes to complete.*

 

The RESOURCE includes:

• Digital Google Slides™ link to perform stations online.
• Printable version of stations in color and black/white
• Editable PowerPoint version of stations.

 

Content covered:

⭐ Heat Transfer (Conduction, convection and radiation)

⭐ Newton’s Laws of Motion

⭐ Solubility and Temperature

⭐ Relationships in Ecosystems, Symbiosis, Mutualism

⭐ Plant Cells (cell walls)

⭐ Animal adaptations

⭐ Earth’s Seasons, Earth’s tilt

⭐ The Carbon Cycle

⭐ Human Impact on Earth