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Engage and Amaze Your K-6 Students!

The Siemens Science Day website offers a variety of tools and resources that will help you reinvent science class. You'll find new, original hands-on activities and supporting videos, a teacher support center with best practice guides, monthly themes and an Ultimate Cool School sweepstakes.

Hands-On Science Activities and Videos

Clean up oil spills. Make slime. Create sand dunes. Leap into learning like never before.

Here you will find a wealth of Earth Science-related activities that will bolster your students' understanding of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere, as well as the solid earth. Students will form sand dunes, simulate rock erosion, and create weather stations. View Earth Science Activities
New Activites
  • Create Your Own Insect
    Difficulty: 2

    Students will learn about the parts of an insect and their function and then will design and build their ultimate insect.

  • Stomp Rockets
    Difficulty: 4

    Students will gain an understanding of performing a controlled experiment and how different variables affect the distance travelled by a stomp rocket.

  • Water Cycle
    Difficulty: 2

    Students will be able to describe the water cycle by creating and observing a model.

  • Warm Colors
    Difficulty: 3

    Students will participate in a hands-on exploration to observe how varying materials absorb solar energy differently.

  • Cooking With The Sun
    Difficulty: 4

    Students will plan, construct, test, and modify solar cookers with a variety of materials, collaboratively describe how different materials react to solar energy, and evaluate materials for utilizing solar energy.

  • Will There Be Enough
    Difficulty: 3

    Students will play a game in order to model how and why people have to work together in order to prevent overuse or destruction of natural resources.

  • Up Periscope!
    Difficulty: 4

    Students will gain an understanding of the law of reflection by tracing the path that light travels, and designing a periscope to demonstrate understanding.

  • Gliding On Air
    Difficulty: 4

    Students will gain an understanding of how a simple hovercraft uses the forces of motion to move.

  • Solar System Scale
    Difficulty: 3

    Students will gain an understanding of the comparative size of the objects in our Solar System and the great distances between them.

  • The Great Diamond Heist
    Difficulty: 4

    Students will investigate the physical characteristics of rocks and minerals to identify the diamond. Focusing on hardness, students will use the Mohs Scale in their investigation. By process of elimination they will identify the diamond.

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