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Animal Discoveries
- Deer, Great Horned Owl, Raccoon, and Squirrel detailed, accurate reproductions of animal skulls. Deer, Raccoon, and Squirrel animal skins. Students compare and contrast furs. Deer, Squirrel and Raccoon animal tracks. Owl, Blue Jay, Canadian Goose and Wo
Suggested Grade Placement: K
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Animal Studies
- Students observe a variety of animals and compare and contrast them in terms of needs, habitats, adaptations and behavior.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-5
Scheduling: 6-8 Weeks
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Animal Studies ELA
- ELA Companion Kit for the Animal Studies unit. Included are Read Aloud Texts, Shared Reading Texts, Guided Reading Texts and Independent Reading Books/Research Resources.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-5
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Animal Studies ELA E
- Companion kit to the Animal Studies unit
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-5
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Balance Boards
- Companion materials for the Classification unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 1
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Balancing and Weighing
- Students manipulate objects as they investigate the relationship between balance, weight and volume.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Balancing ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Balancing & Weighing unit. Guided reading leveled books, before, during and after reading strategies. Word study and other related activities.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Batteries and Bulbs II
- Students investigate electromagnetism and design experiments to determine the factors that influence the strength of an electromagnet. Students construct buzzers and simple motors.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6 weeks
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Beginnings
- Active learning kit that explores basic concepts of behavior, shape, color, texture, odor, sound, size, position and quantity. Activities are designed to develop language, communication, and group-participation.
Suggested Grade Placement: K-1
Scheduling: varies by district
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Behavior of Mealworms
- Students observe and design experiments to gain information about the sensory perceptions of these interesting creatures.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Butterflies Calendar
- Companion materials to the Life Cycle of Butterflies unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Butterflies ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Life Cycle of Butterflies unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Cabbage and Chemistry
- Students explore acids and bases using the special indicator properties of red cabbage juice
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-6
Scheduling: 4-6 weeks
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Challenger
- Students investigate acids and bases, rocks and minerals and the use of robots in preparation for their visit to the Challenger Learning Center of Greater Rochester.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 2-3 weeks
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Challenger ELA
- ELA companion kit to the Challenger unit. Life on Mars, dust storms on Mars. Asteroids, meteoroids, comets, constellations. International Space Station, islands in space?
"Together, Everyone Accomplishes More"
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 4 weeks
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Changes
- Students investigate change in state of matter. Freezing, melting, evaporation and condensation of water are explored. Students work with mixtures by sieving, filtration, evaporation and chromatography.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Changes ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Changes unit. Students apply comprehension strategies of visualizing, questioning, inferring, making connections, determining importance, synthesizing, retelling both orally and written and using context clues.
Suggested Grade Placement: Grade 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Chemical Tests
- Students learn the basic concepts of chemistry by exploring the properties of 5
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-5
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Classification
- Students are provided with a variety of activities and materials to help them develop the skill of classification.
Suggested Grade Placement: 1
Scheduling: 8 weeks
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Color and Light
- Students use prisms to investigate the full range of colors in white light, the visible spectrum. They experiment with subtractive color mixing and discover the primary pigments.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Comparing and Measuring
- Students explore concepts needed for comparing and measuring. Students use non standard and standard units such as unifix cubes and measuring strips to measure height, width and distance.
Suggested Grade Placement: 1-2
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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CSI Pittsford
- Using science to solve a mystery.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Dowel and Thermometer
- Companion materials to the Weather Watching unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Earth Movements
- Students investigate the earth?s crust, plate tectonics, subduction, convection currents, volcanoes, earthquakes, and more through a series of hands on science lessons.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Earth, Moon, and Sun
- Students investigate the solar system using a solar system model and simple lessons addressing length of day, month and year. Moon phases and sun location are also addressed.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 4-6 weeks
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Ecosystems
- Students create their own terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and gain an understanding of ecological systems and their interdependence.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Ecosystems ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Ecosystems unit.Before reading strategies: activate prior knowledge; During reading strategies: become a self-monitoring reader; and After reading strategies: reflect and remember.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Eggs and Tadpoles
- Students observe frog eggs through all stages to adulthood. Students record observations and compare animals and their habit to other species. Daily log is kept throughout entire unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Electric Circuits
- Students learn the basic properties and uses of electricity by doing a variety of activities culminating with the design, construction and wiring of a cardboard house.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-5
Scheduling: 6-8 week
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Electric Circuits ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Electric Circuits unit. "When building a house, would you use a series or parallel circuit?"
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-5
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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ELS
- NYS Education Department approved science materials are provided for teachers to administer the Elementary Science Performance Assessment. BoSAT also provides training for administration and scoring of the exam.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4
Scheduling: 4 weeks
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Energy, Machines, and Motion
- Middle school kit supports 5 classes instead of one. Students investigate simple machines, transfer of energy and motion through a series of hands on science labs. Students even build and design a miniature roller coaster.
Suggested Grade Placement: 6-7
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Experiments with Plants
- Students conduct experiments to test how nutrition, water, space, light and other essentials affect the growth and seed production of plants.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Exploring Space
- Students construct model rockets and determine the variables that will affect their flight.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 4-6 weeks
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Flat Cardboard
- Companion materials to the Weather Forecasting unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Floating and Sinking
- Students, through a variety of hands-on experiments, explore the factors that influence whether an object floats or sinks.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Food Chains and Webs
- Students explore Food Chains & Webs. Students explore plants as food producers. Students classify animals as primary, secondary, or teritiary consumer, or decomposer, based on what it eats.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Food Chemistry
- Students investigate the nutrient content of some common foods through a set of specific tests and learn how the nutrient content of their food affects their health.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Forces and Motion
- Students are introduced to force, motion and friction through the six simple machines. Students build and test all six simple machines through a series of hands on lessons.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Forces and Motion ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Forces & Motion unit. Brainstorming a simple machine or invention that would solve a problem. Understanding the vocabulary words resistance, force and friction.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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From Seed to Plant
- Fourteen hands-on activities introduce students to ten different types of flowering plants. Students discover the link between structure and function.
Suggested Grade Placement: K-1
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Goggles
- Companion kit to Challenger, Chemical Tests, CSI Pittsford, Earth Movements, Motion and Design, and Rocks
Suggested Grade Placement: K-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Growing Plants
- Students explore plant parts, needs, and uses through a series of teacher developed lessons
Suggested Grade Placement: 1-2
Scheduling: varies by district
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Growing Seeds
- Students classify seeds by properties, plant seeds, care for plants and record plant growth
Suggested Grade Placement: 1
Scheduling: 4-6 weeks
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Hands on Science
- The practice tests contained in this kit can be set up as Centers to help the students prepare for the NYS Science 4 performance exam.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Hot Air Balloons
- Students explore convection currents and effects of heat on an air mass by building and launching miniature hot air balloons.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 4-6 weeks
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Incubation
- Students investigate fertilized poultry eggs until they hatch.
Suggested Grade Placement: K-6
Scheduling: 5 weeks
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Incubation ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Incubation unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: K-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Incubator
- Companion materials to the Incubation unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: K-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Interating Matter
- States of Matter, Interactions, making & observing changes, oil and water. Physical Changes, Chemical Changes.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Land and Water
- Students discover the link between weather, geology, environmental science and landscape engineering.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-5
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Land and Water ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Land & Water unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-5
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Life Cycle of Butterflies
- Students learn the concept of animal development by exploring the life cycle of the Painted Lady butterfly.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Life Cycle of Butterflies ELA
- Companion kit to the Life Cycle of Butterflies unit.
Suggested Grade Placement:
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Light Source
- Companion materials for Experiments with Plants and Plant Growth and Development units.
Suggested Grade Placement: K-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Living Things
- Students investigate living things and how seasonal changes affect them.
Suggested Grade Placement: K
Scheduling: 4 weeks
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Living Things ELA
- ELA Companion to the Living Things unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: K
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Magnets & Motors
- Students investigate magnetism and electricity in the same historical order in which each concept was discovered. Students begin with magnets and compasses. progress through electricity from batteries and finish with electromagnetism as it relates to elec
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Magnets & Motors ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Magnets & Motors unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Magnets and Magnetism
- A revised version of the original magnets unit takes a more in depth look at magnetism. Students explore polarity, magnetic fields, and the earth?s magnetic field in detail.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Magnets ELA
- ELA Companion to the Magnets & Magnetism unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeksw
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Math Measurement
- Measurement, the process of quantifying observations. Kit consists of four investigations, each designed to emphasize a particular type of metric measurement, length, mass, temperature, and volume.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Measurement
- Original measurement kit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Measurement II
- A revised version of the original measurement unit. Students take a more in depth look at length, temperature, balance, volume and mass in various hands on lessons.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Microworlds
- Students explore microworlds as they observe living and non-living specimens through magnifying lenses and microscopes.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Motion and Design
- Students analyze the motion of the vehicles they build.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-5
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Natural Disasters
- Students explore blizzards, ice storms, hydration and dehydration. They will build an Anemometer and learn all about hurricanes and patterns of hurricanes. The students will explore how lightning forms and build lightning rods. Toradoes are explored by u
Suggested Grade Placement: 3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Observation
- Students are provided with a variety of activities and materials to help them develop the skills of observing, describing and comparing.
Suggested Grade Placement: K
Scheduling: 8 weeks
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Observation ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Observations unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: K
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Oobleck
- Mysterious liquid. Watch it flow like a liquid, then feel its surface resist your fingers like a solid. The students develop important skills in the art of scientific investigation.
Suggested Grade Placement: K
Scheduling: 6 weeks |
