Science Experiments Worksheets

Experiment: Evaporation (upper elem/middle)

Instructions for performing an experiment to learn about evaporation.

Worksheet: Data Recording

Record your data on an experiment or other research and draw a picture for each observation with this simple form.

Did You Know? Evaporation

Two printable cards with graphics for writing facts about water or evaporation.

Experiment: Hands On Science - Seeds

Learn about the parts of a seed.

Lab: Gravity (upper elem)

You know what you weigh on Earth (even if it doesn't make you happy!!)--but what would you weigh on Mars? on Pluto? Students combine science and math in this fun gravity lab.

Experiments: Crystals (upper elem/middle)

A fact-filled reading comprehension on the formation and types of crystals is followed by SEVEN great crystal experiments for home or the classroom, using everyday materials.

Tower Building Challenge (upper elem/ middle) Experiment

This Tower Building Challenge (upper elem/ middle) Experiment is perfect to practice science and math skills. Your elementary grade students will love this Tower Building Challenge (upper elem/ middle) Experiment. Rules and task description for building a tower from simple household materials. This is a great science/math combo lesson: students explore properties of balance and strength and try to balance a budget!

Comprehensions: The Only Energy You'll Ever See (elementary)

Two fact-filled and easy-to-understand reading comprehensions, explaining and defining light. Our light units are available at four different levels, with increasingly advanced vocabulary and concepts.

Comprehension: The Only Energy You'll Ever See (middle school)

A fact-filled reading comprehension, explaining and defining light. Our light units are available at four different levels, with increasingly advanced vocabulary and concepts.

Scientific Experiments - An Introduction

Leads students through the steps of a science experiment to help them towards logical thinking with increasing independence.

Experiment: Paper Towel

Experiment: The Amazing Egg Experiment

A simple in-class experiment, done over the course of a week, using eggs as a hands-on example of how acids and bases interact, as well as the dynamics of permeable and semi-permeable membranes.

Experiment: Turmeric Base (upper elementary)

An experiment that demonstrates chemical testing by adding a turmeric test liquid to 12 substances. Color changes illustrate whether the substances are base or not. Includes instructions for the experiment and a lab worksheet for students.

Comprehension: pH scale (upper el/middle)

Reading comprehension explaining the use of the pH scale to classify acids, neutrals and bases. Includes a worksheet and pH scale graphic.

Comprehension: Acids and Bases (upper elem/middle)

Science: My Pet Rock (elementary)

Students adopt a "pet rock" and use these forms for a simple and comprehensible science project, developing skills in collecting and recording data.

Experiment: Refraction and the Disappearing Coin (upper elem)

One of several science light lessons on our member site, this experiment in light behavior is also a cool magic trick.

Experiment: Rainbows (upper elem)

Rainbows are lovely, but sometimes they're hard to find. This is one of several experiments on light behavior available on our member site.

Experiment: Fountain of Light (upper elem)

This science experiment demonstrates refraction and reflection, and goes with a related lesson on our member site.

Comprehensions: Light and Eyes (upper elementary)

Light and your eyes: cones, colors, and rods. Two reading comprehensions explain how we perceive color and how night vision works.

Craft: Make a Wave (elem)

Make your own miniature wave in a bottle.

Science Project: Catapults (upper elem/middle school)

Explains how catapults work and how they were used in medieval times. Lots of hands on work for comparing three classes of lever.

Desk Tag: Brain Power

A Tesla coil with the words "brain power". Three desk tags.

Desk Tag: Have an Electrifying Day

Picture of a robot plugging in.

Experiment: Catapult (upper elem/middle)

Step-by-step building of a catapult from craft sticks; this unit presents the elements of a science project (research, hypothesis, etc.) that can be used for this catapult experiment and applied for other science projects in the future.

Science Project: Journal Prompts

Lined pages for recording facts, ideas, sources, materials, notes, experimental process notes (hypothesis, etc.). A great prompt tool.

Science Project: Electrical Motor (upper elem)

Building Faraday's homopolar motor.

Experiment: Plants - Beans & Soil (elem/upper elem)

In this "hands on science" experiment, students compare growth between beans planted in soil and beans planted without soil in order to understand the importance of soil nutrients to plant growth.

Experiment: Plants - Transpiration (elem/upper elem)

This "hands-on science" lesson helps students address the question of what plants do with all the water they absorb. This lesson includes a reading comprehension.

Experiment: Plants - Turgor Pressure (elem/upper elem)

In this hands-on science experiment, students understand turgor pressure and osmosis.

Zoo Experiment Experience (middle/high)' Short Story

Use this 'Short Story: Zoo Experiment Experience (middle/high)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Short Story: Zoo Experiment Experience (middle/high)'. Fictional short story about a student science engineering project carried out at a zoo exhibit. Help students value planning and consider potential outcomes and consequences. Middle/High school level.

Experiment: Where We Find Science-In Water Set 1 (elem/upper elem)

A set of four physics experiments in our Where We Find Science series that demonstrate the properties of the surface tension of water. Includes a Scientific Method report form and an explanation and results page.

Experiment: Where We Find Science-In Water-Build a Pond (elem/upper elem)

Build a pond project, part of our "Where we Find Science" series. This project offers opportunities to observe biology in a pond. Instructions for building a pond, plus explanation of possible results and a form for observations of changes in pond are included.

Where We Find Science-In Water-Pond Organisms (elem/upper elem) Experiment

Use this 'Experiment: Where We Find Science-In Water-Pond Organisms (elem/upper elem)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Experiment: Where We Find Science-In Water-Pond Organisms (elem/upper elem)'. A science project of raising and observing pond organisms in an aquarium at home or in the classroom, with instructions and observation form. Part of the abcteach series, Where We Find Science.

Experiment: Where We Find Science-In Water-Amphibians (elem/upper elem)

Instructions for a science project of raising amphibians in an aquarium, with report form. Part of abcteach's Where We Find Science: Science in Water series.

Experiment: Where We Find Science-The Sky 1 (elem)

Two simple experiments help students understand the movement of the sun and its relationship to the seasons and the time of day. Includes observation, note taking, sketching, building a simple sundial and a scientific method report form. Part of abcteach's Where We Find Science Series.

Experiment: Where We Find Science-The Sky 2 (upper elem)

An advanced astronomy project in which student builds a device to measure the position of the sun in the sky and record its changes, to help understanding of seasons. Includes scientific method report form. Part of abcteach's Where We Find Science Series.

Experiment: Where We Find Science-The Sky Pinhole Viewer

Students construct one of two versions of a pinhole viewer and then use the viewer to establish the diameter of the sun and the moon. Part of abcteach's Where We Find Science series.

Science: Hawking Radiation (upper elem/middle/high)

An explanation of Hawking Radiation, plus an experiment creating an event horizon, a report form, a vocabulary exercise and glossary make up this lesson.

Science Experiment: Physics - Surface Tension (upper elem/middle)

A one page explanation of surface tension followed by two related experiments and a teacher's note.