1. Why I Love
Science Experiences!

2. Who am I? My name is Curtis Adams.
I teach at Valley View Intermediate School and have been for 6 years. This will be my 10th year teaching.
I have a degree in Television Advertising and Minor in business marketing.
I am a non-traditional teacher that decided to be a math teacher, which I still like to teach, but I fell in love with science because like my previously chosen career lets me use my imagination to do fun things and play.

3. My Goals:
I have four general main goals as a teacher: convince my students that school is not prison by trying to help them find ways to enjoy learning, to get the like my subject, to get my students to remember what they have learned to use it in their life, and to wake up everyday and like my job.

4. Who are you? I just have 4 questions for you? Easy to hard.
What’s you name?
Where do you teach?
What do you like about your job?
What are you the interested in?

5. My Goals For
You Today:
Provide you with some fun science experiences that you can take to your class to help get your students excited about science and to give them some concrete ways to see science in action around them.
To have some fun today, and to show you that you don’t have to stop a lesson to have a huge lab.
And to be a resource for you if you need me.
Check out my website through the school. Link

6. When and How
do we learn?
We learn everyday…every second of the day and the more curious we are, the more we learn.
We learn using our senses and skills: hear, see, touch, taste, smell, and reading, writing and doing.
We retain the tings we learn by linking them to things we already know or experience in our everyday life.

7. Apple Lab (physical change) Add Water spheres to water
So lets try
To learn something
Today?
Apple Lab (physical change)
Everyone needs to cut a thin slice of apple and place it on the dehydrator. Remember which is yours and pay attention to its thickness and shape and to the others its near. Continued later today.
Add Water spheres to water

8. The Kinds of Science We’ll Look at Today.
Life Science
Earth Science
Physical Science
Where supplies come from:
School owed supplies and equipment
School budget allowance
Donor’s Choose
You/your friends
Your students/parents

9. Life Science Labs for Today Moth Survival Game Sheet Saving Mr. Adams
Other options
Animal Classification Game
Where Did I get My Good Looks From
Seed Racer Lab
3D cell project labs
Rebops DNA Sheet
The Survival Game

10. Earth Science Where are students going to find their information?
Resources
Where are students going to find their information?
Textbook and non-fiction TV
Movies
Internet
Make Fossils
Items needed
Homemade Playdough
Wax Paper
Item to fossilize

11. Physical Science Resources Chemical Change Physical Change Match
Food coloring diffusion
Ball and ring apparatus
Bike tube
Mexican Wagon Wheels
Ivory soap
Popcorn
Boo bubbles
Water spheres
Apple Lab
Solar bag lab
Chemical Change
Match
Multicolored Candles
Rust
Electrolysis device
Van de Graff machine
Glow stick
Pop-its
Brownies
Steel Wool battery

12. Physical Science Newton’s Laws of Motion PowerPoint
Possible labs for today
Newton’s 1st Law
Book and paper
Frisbee
Paper Airplane
Newton’s Second Law
Heavy object versus a lighter one
Move Mr. Adams
Water Balloon Launcher Lab
Newton’s 3rd Law
Stomp Rockets
Soda bottle water wheel
Balloon Rocket Lab
Water Rocket Lab