We would like to thank you for intentionally engaging your students in amazing science instruction through BOCES 4 Science Units. These NYSSLS units have been written by New York teachers for New York teachers. Below are some investigations/activities you can share with families (or use in the classroom) that help students continue science exploration outside of school.
We hope you, and your students, enjoy.
Low Tech Science Tasks (pdf)-- at home tasks that allow students to learn science by going outside to observe and discover the world around them.
Unit: Weather
Experience 1: Weather for Kindergarten (pdf)
Unit: Pushes and Pulls
Experience 1: Pushes and Pulls (pdf)
Unit: Animals, Plants, and Their Environment
Unit: Waves - Sending Messages with Light and Sound
Read me first (Word doc)
Experience 1: Introductory worksheets (Word doc)
Experience 1: What gives light and sound presentation (Powerpoint)
Experience 2: Communicating worksheets (Word doc)
Experience 2: Communicating with light and sound presentation (Powerpoint)
Unit: A Bunny's Life
Experience 1: A Bunny's Life (pdf)
Unit: Sky Patterns
Unit: Save the Bees
Experience 1: Save the Bees (pdf)
Unit: Earth's Features
Read me first (Word doc)
Experience 1: Worksheets Landforms and water (pdf)
Experience 1: Earths Features (Powerpoint)
Experience 2: Worksheets water on Earth (pdf)
Experience 2: Earth’s Features. (Powerpoint)
Experience 3: Worksheets Make a Map (pdf)
Experience 3: Maps and Models (Powerpoint)
Experience 4: Worksheets Earth Events (pdf)
Experience 4: Earth Events (Powerpoint)
Experience 5: Worksheets Fast or Slow (pdf)
Experience 5: Fast or Slow (Powerpoint)
Experience 6: Worksheets Prevent Flooding (pdf)
Experience 6: Preventing Changes (Powerpoint)
Unit: Made of Matter
Unit: Investigating Weather and Climate
Experience 1: Investigating Weather and Climate directions directions (pdf)
Calendar (pdf)
Comparing The Weather - in two locations (pdf)
Signs of Spring - BINGO (pdf)
Unit: Where are the Wolves:
Experience 1: Where are the Wolves (pdf)
Wolf Pack Movement (movie)
External Website Resource -- "Top Dogs: Exploring Apex Predators of the Adirondacks"
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Unit: Generations of Butterflies
Experience 1: Generations of Butterflies (pdf)
Unit: Invisible Forces
Unit: Earth Processes in New York State
Extension 1: Fossils, Patterns, and Changes
Unit: Riding the Waves of Information
Read me First (doc)
Experience 1: Pattern worksheets (Word doc)
Experience 1: Patterns (Powerpoint)
Experience 2: Waves properties worksheets (Word doc)
Experience 2: Properties of waves (Powerpoint)
Unit: A Walk in the Park
Unit: Powering Thru the Fair
Experience 1: Powering Thru the Fair (pdf)
Unit: Deer Deer Everywhere
Experience 1: Deer, Deer Everywhere (pdf)
Unit: Toys Matter:
Experience 1: Toys Matter (pdf)
Unit: Got Water:
Experience 1: Got Water? (pdf)
Unit: Earth and Space Explorers
Unit: Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation