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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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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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BUBL kit
- Activities designed specifically to prepare students for their experience in the BUBL lab. The kit contains at least one activity per station. Each activity is standard based and provides both practice and introduction of concepts and skills required to c
Suggested Grade Placement: 7-9
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Buoyancy Video Conference
- http://www.rochesterchallenger.org/transferofenergy.pdf
Suggested Grade Placement: 2
Scheduling: 90 minutes
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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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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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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 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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H2O HERO: Live Video Conference
- boces.streaming.monroe.edu/movies.py?idnum=800217
Call 585-242-5059 for more information
Suggested Grade Placement: 1-3
Scheduling: 90 minutes
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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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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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Organisms
- Students explore similarities and differences between plants and animals. They construct terraria and aquaria and stock them with plants, guppies, snails, pill bugs, and Bess Beetles.
Suggested Grade Placement: 1
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Organisms ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Organisms unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 1
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Owl Pellets
- Students dissect and investigate owl pellets to determine the diet of owls. The concepts of food chains and interdependence are explored.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-6
Scheduling: 4 weeks
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Owl Pellets ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Owl Pellets unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-6
Scheduling: 4 weeks
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Paper Towel Testing
- Mini Kit Students design and conduct scientific tests to compare the qualities of several brands of paper towels.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 2 weeks
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Pets
- In this teacher developed thematic unit, students investigate how to care for pets as well as explore their unique characteristics. The unit also includes how humans interact with and affect animals.
Suggested Grade Placement: K-1
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Plant Growth and Development
- Students learn about germination, growth and development, pollination and seed production by observing their own plants through an entire life cycle.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Plant Growth ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Plant Growth & Development unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Planters Tray
- Companion materials to the Organisms unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 1
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Poster Tube
- Clue Boards for the CSI Pittsford unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Prediction
- Students are provided with a variety of activities and materials to help them make predictions and inferences. Students are also encouraged to use a wide variety of measuring tools to determine the measurable characteristics of objects.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4
Scheduling: 8 weeks
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Refraction
- Companion kit to the Color and Light unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Rocks
- A data collection based unit where students investigate rocks and minerals by applying basic field geology skills. Detailed data sheets and assessments.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Rocks and Minerals
- Students investigate the properties and uses of a variety of rocks and explore a set of mineral specimens using basic techniques of field geology.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-5
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Rocks and Minerals ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Rocks & Minerals unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-5
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Sandplay
- Students investigate properties of sand and rock through play. Estimation and descriptive skills are developed as students examine and ?play? with materials and record their findings.
Suggested Grade Placement: K-1
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Scientific Method & The Microscope
- Experiment reports, length/distance, molecules and temperature, investigating density, microscopes, animal & plant cells under a microscope.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Simple Machines
- Students work with Lego/Dacta to develop and explore simple machines. Several ELA resource materials are included in this primary introduction to simple machines.
Suggested Grade Placement: K-2
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Sink or Float
- Students discover and define buoyancy and surface tension. They test the capacity of vessels of various shapes, sizes, and materials to arrive at an understanding of what makes a good boat.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Soils
- Through observations and various tests, students will discover and identify the different properties of sand, clay, humus and garden soil.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Soils ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Soils unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Solar System
- The universe and the solar system. Planet facts, the sun, distance of the planets from the sun. The planets day and night, seasons. Direct and indirect sunlight. The Earth and the Moon. Asteroids and craters on the moon.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Solar System ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Solar System unit.
Suggested Grade Placement:
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Solids and Liquids
- Students get to shake, rattle and roll an assortment of objects and materials while engaging in science explorations clearly linked to their everyday lives.
Suggested Grade Placement: 1
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Solids and Liquids ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Solids and Liquids unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 1
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Sound
- Students explore the basic characteristics of sound, as well as how sound is transmitted and received.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Sound ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Sound unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Technology of Paper - (STC)
- Students explore properties and technological design of paper. After discovering how paper is made and recycled, where it comes from, and what properties it has, students will test six common types of paper and finally design and create their own recycled
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Transfer of Energy Video Conference
- The Challenger Learning Center is proud to present a new and exciting way to bring state-of-the-art technology into your classroom, and into the hands of your students. By using video conferencing technology, your students will participate in a hands-on,
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-6
Scheduling: 90 minutes
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Trees Are Plants
- Students learn to identify and explore a variety of different types of trees in our area. What do they look like? How do they grow? How old are they? How do leaves differ from one another and why? Why are we so dependent upon trees?
Suggested Grade Placement: K
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Trundle Wheel
- Companion materials to the Measurement II unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-3
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Weather
- Students discover how weather affects their lives. Students make their own measurements and observations using instruments they have made in class.
Suggested Grade Placement: 1
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Weather ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Weather unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 1
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Weather Forecasting
- Students collect weather data and investigate air pressure and its effects on weather. Cloud types are explored and students create a cloud in the classroom. Students apply usefulness of weather characteristics by developing weather forecasts.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Weather Forecasting ELA
- ELA Companion kit to the Weather Forecasting unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Weather Instruments
- Students measure weather conditions using kit tools and devices of their own making. They begin with temperature. Students compare Fahrenheit and Celsius scales and take thermometer readings. They investigate air pressure and barometers. They construct w
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Weather Watching
- Students investigate the phenomenon of thunder, lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes and rainbows. Temperature change and measurement, wind, clouds and precipitation are explored. Students conclude the unit by reading and creating weather maps.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-4
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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