| Lesson 1 — Organizing Things into Categories |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
- Paper and pencil OR Writing Sheet for Memory Game
| - Categorizing Monsters worksheet
- Assortment of miscellaneous items from junk drawers and closets (for sorting practice)
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| Lesson 2 — Solids, Liquids, and Gases Introduction |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
| - Solid, Liquid, Gas Sorting worksheet
- Writing Pages
- Water and various liquids in clear containers (cooking oil, liquid detergent, syrup, shampoo, etc.)
- Various solid items (toys, pencils, dishes, coins, etc.)
- Make Ooblek! SciShow Video Here and Crash Course Kids Here
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| Lesson 3 — Gravity Introduction |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
- Something to drop (literally anything that isn't going to break)
- Clear bottle or cup with water in it
- Some type of oil (vegetable oil works well)
- Blocks or something to stack that can fall without breaking
| - Plumb bob (any weight tied to the end of a string)
- Carpenter's level
- Horizontal and Vertical Printable
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| Lesson 4 — States of Matter: Changes with Temperature |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
- No additional supplies needed (uses same materials from Lesson 2)
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| Lesson 5 — Orbits and Gravity in Space |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
| - Weight tied to the end of a string (to demonstrate inertia and orbital motion)
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| Lesson 6 — What is Energy? |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
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| Lesson 7 — Air is Real |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
- Balance scale (alternative to the right)
- Bubbles
- Straw
- Cup of water
- Fan
- Balloon (2)
- Bowl of water big enough to stick your hand in
| - Alternative to balance scale: stick/dowel balanced on a string OR a hanger
- Cup with paper towel stuck inside
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| Lesson 8 — Energy Transformation |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
| - Energy Transfers worksheet
- Home Activities: Snap Circuits
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| Lesson 9 — Air and the Atmosphere |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
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| Lesson 10 — Categorizing the World Around Us |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
| - Biological, natural Earth, and human-made sorting worksheet
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| Lesson 11 — Matter is Made of Particles |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
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| Lesson 12 — Distinguishing Living Things from Natural Earth and Human Made |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
- For the Live class: you'll need Figures to Hold Up OR you can make your own versions to hold up (person, tree, and earth)
| - Fine Details + Magnifying Glass
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| Lesson 13 — Changes in Particles with States of Matter |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
- Draw Particles Worksheet or regular paper to draw on (split into three sections)
| - Diffusion Experiment: food coloring, hot water, cold water, room temperature water, three clear glasses
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| Lesson 14 — Technology, Tools, and Animals |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
| - Research more examples of biomimicry
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| Lesson 15 — Reversible and Nonreversible Changes |
| Required Items | Optional Items / At Home Demonstration |
| - Reversible and Nonreversible Changes Worksheet
- In daily life (cooking, working in the kitchen) ask your learner to describe if changes are reversible or nonreversible and why.
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