Hands-on lessons your class can do tomorrow.
A question kids actually ask, an experiment with everyday materials, and a printable teacher guide you can pick up and run. Plus the kits and classroom tech to go with them.
- Full lessons, not samples
- Materials under $30 a class
- No student accounts, ever
- Curriculum-alignedNGSS and Common Core in the US, provincial curricula in Canada, and international schools
- No student dataTeachers sign in. Students never need accounts
- Print-readyTeacher guide, student sheets and worksheets in one PDF
- Easy to purchaseQuotes, purchase orders and invoices from Fieldbook Learning, with supplier documents ready
The questions your students already ask.
Each lesson is built around one real question, and finishes with students who can answer it with evidence.
Why do bike tires go soft in winter?
Where does our classroom's electricity come from?
Is this winter colder than when your grandparents were kids?
Why does a chinook feel like spring in January?
Where does a puddle go?
How do you know a fact is true?
Can a jar keep itself alive?
Why does my shadow follow me?
Five beats, one class period.
Learn the pattern once. Every lesson follows it, so you spend your time teaching, not decoding a new plan.
- 1
Mission
5 min
A real question, told as a story. Your class becomes the team hired to answer it.
- 2
Predict
5–10 min
Everyone makes a prediction and writes down why. Now they care how it turns out.
- 3
Hunt
20 min
Hands on, in teams of three with rotating jobs. Everyday materials, a fair test.
- 4
Reveal
10–15 min
Pool the results, compare with the predictions, and explain what happened with the science.
- 5
Act
10 min
Use the evidence: a note, a design, a recommendation. Learning that goes somewhere.
A teacher guide and a student sheet, ready to print.
- The whole plan. What to say, what to do and when, beat by beat.
- Materials, counted. Quantities per team and roughly what it all costs.
- The science, for a non-specialist. Background notes and the mix-ups to listen for.
- Assessment built in. A rubric and an exit ticket.
- A student sheet on its own page. Photocopy it for the class.
Open the box and teach.
Materials kits counted out for your class, and the Field Logger: a classroom instrument that takes fair, automatic temperature and light readings.
Print it tonight, teach it tomorrow.
Worksheet sets and seasonal packs mapped to your province's curriculum, with answer keys and a free sample of every pack. No account needed to buy.
Science Fair Planner (K–8)
A free printable planner that takes a student from a question to a finished display: 28 home-friendly project ideas by grade band, a fair-test planner, data table and graph grid, claim-evidence-reasoning page, display board layout, judge practice, a rubric and a parent letter.
Groundhog Day Shadow Science
Grade 1–2 students separate fact from folklore, then measure real shadows at three times of day, with a flashlight plan for cloudy or very cold days. Includes a reader, a class graph, a puppet activity, a short emergent-reader book and an answer key.
Grade 3 Ontario Math: The Whole Year
All five strands of the 2020 Ontario Grade 3 math curriculum: Number, Algebra, Data, Spatial Sense and Financial Literacy. Every specific expectation has teaching pages, practice and assessment, with answer keys throughout.
Units from Kindergarten to Grade 12.
Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move
Why tires go soft in winter, why sidewalks have gaps, and how a thermometer knows. Five lessons on what heating and cooling do to the particles in everything around us.
Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From
Where does the electricity in our classroom come from, and why is it made differently in different places? Students trace the wires, build a wind machine that does real work, and weigh up solar power like an energy planner.
Climate Clues
Tree rings, old weather records and what your own town's numbers say. Three lessons on how scientists tell climate apart from a cold week.
Weather Detectives
Warm winter winds, the hottest spot in the schoolyard and the last frost of spring. Students measure weather fairly and find out why farmers care so much about it.
Solids, Liquids and Gases
Where does a puddle go? Why does ice float? A first look at the tiny particles that explain the stuff around us.
Evidence Lab
How do you know something is true? Students test a claim with their own measurements, find out why one result is never enough, and learn to tell strong evidence from weak.
Science at home, explained.
Lava lamps, oobleck, egg drops and rainbows: the experiments kids already ask for, with the science explained for the grown-up and easier and harder versions for siblings. No science background needed.
Science for families
Built on your curriculum, not bent to fit it.
Every unit lists what it covers: NGSS and the Common Core in the US, and provincial curricula in Canada, including Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. We only list a code when the unit genuinely teaches it.
The examples travel well: cold mornings, farm fields, school buses and city sidewalks, with metric and imperial units side by side.
See curriculum alignmentNGSS · Common Core
Performance expectations and math standards, by code.
Provincial curricula
Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and more, by strand and outcome.
Your learning plan
Standards you can point to when you plan or report.
Measure it properly.
A thermometer gives you one number. The Field Logger records temperature and light automatically, station by station, and shows the graph as it happens. Your class finds the hottest and coolest places in the schoolyard, and proves it.
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Materials you already have
Each lesson lists what to gather and roughly what it costs. Or we'll send a kit with everything counted out.
About kitsNo student data
Students never sign up or log in. Teachers have an account for their lessons. That's it.
Our privacy promiseHonest science
We tell kids what an experiment can and can't show. Getting a messy result and explaining it is real science too.
What we believeBring it to your whole school.
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