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Amplify Science for grades K–8 invites students to figure out how the world works by blending hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools. As they learn to think, read, write, and argue like scientists and engineers, they encounter real phenomena and real investigations—and step into their roles as real scientists in the making.

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A collage of four images: a Classroom Wall with a science board, a night sky with constellations, birds flying in the sky, and a classroom display about a gecko inspired by Amplify Science.
A collage showing airplanes, a science classroom with hanging planets, a sun illustration, a tray with crayons, an Earth graphic, and children looking through a fence—perfect inspiration for teacher resources and hands-on activities.

Kindergarten

In kindergarten, students explore sunlight and weather through careful observations, meaningful questions, growing vocabulary, and Classroom Walls that make their scientific discoveries visible, joyful, and celebrated.

Classroom with tables, chairs, a hanging solar system model, and educational posters on the doors and Classroom Wall; inset graphics show Earth orbiting the Sun and a close-up of the Sun—perfect for hands-on activities inspired by Amplify Science.

Kindergarten: Sunlight and Weather

Color-coded sections for three grades make the Key Concepts and thinking easy to follow, while clothespins mark each class’s progress through Chapter 1.

Credit: Rebecca Steindler O’Brien, P.S. 51 The Elias Howe School, NY

Grade 1

In grade 1, students explore how animals and plants defend themselves, investigate how light creates shadows, discover how sound comes from vibrations, and consider how structures and behaviors help living things thrive.

A collage featuring students at desks in a vibrant science classroom, a science vocab bulletin board, butterfly and turtle illustrations, a hand with a flashlight, and a classroom whiteboard filled with notes and diagrams—perfect inspiration for teachers seeking engaging teacher resources or Amplify Science displays.
A person sits at a classroom desk holding a blue and white craft project; their face is covered by a large orange heart. Two aquatic-themed illustrations appear on the right, perfect for hands-on activities in the science classroom.

Grade 1: Animal and Plant Defenses

With their own animal defenses on display, students explore how structures and behaviors help animals protect themselves.

Credit: Veeh Nguyen, Belle Chasse Academy, LA

A whiteboard in a science classroom displays science vocabulary and a predator-prey diagram with drawings of a shark, turtle, and fish—perfect for Amplify Science hands-on activities. Two aquatic animal icons appear on a beige background.

Grade 1: Animal and Plant Defenses
Student vocabulary, questions, and representations show ideas about animal and plant defenses taking shape on the Classroom Wall.

Credit: Veeh Nguyen, Belle Chasse Academy, LA

Classroom Wall bulletin board displays vocabulary words about plant and animal survival, inspired by Amplify Science; adjacent images show a butterfly on a flowerpot and a caterpillar on grass.

Grade 1: Animal and Plant Defenses
Unit questions and student work capture the class’s developing ideas about how plants and animals survive.

Credit: Christina Nelson, William Howard Taft Elementary School, OH

A group of young students sit at a table in a science classroom, engaging in hands-on activities with flashlights and paper screens. Their faces are covered with orange heart icons.

Grade 1: Light and Sound
Shadows stretch across the classroom as students investigate the relationship between light and objects.

Credit: Brittney Gooden, LaSalle Elementary School, LA

Students sit at a desk in a science classroom working on Amplify Science worksheets and a hands-on experiment, while two smaller images show shadow experiments with shapes under a light source.

Grade 1: Light and Sound
Students investigate vibrations as they explore how sound is produced and transmitted.

Credit: Jennifer Baker, Poland Junior High School, LA

A woman and two children use flashlights to create shadows on a science classroom wall; an inset shows a close-up of a paper cutout used for making shadow shapes, perfect for teacher resources.

Grade 1: Light and Sound
A student-created puppet show gives the class a chance to demonstrate what they have learned about light and sound.

Credit: Anna Dardar, Ball Elementary School, LA

A science bulletin board displays vocabulary and questions about light and surfaces. An inset shows a hand holding a flashlight, projecting a sailboat shadow—perfect for hands-on activities inspired by Amplify Science.

Grade 1: Light and Sound
Questions and student thinking about shadows and light make the Light and Sound unit visible on the Classroom Wall.

Credit: Brittney Gooden, LaSalle Elementary School, LA

Four photos show children at tables working on crafts and activities, with paper and clay projects displayed on a colorful classroom wall; faces are covered with orange hearts for privacy.

Grade 2

In grade 2, students explore changing landforms by comparing sand, modeling how water shapes the land, creating scientific diagrams, and crafting clay petroglyphs that celebrate their growing understanding of Earth’s dynamic surface.

Classroom wall with educational posters, black and red bulletin boards, and storage bins filled with teacher resources and materials for an engaging science classroom.

Grades 2: Properties of Materials

A multi-grade Classroom Wall organizes thinking with color-coded sections, unit questions, key concepts, vocabulary, and displays for units.

Credit: Kristina Sandstrom, Tartan Elementary School, NV

Three children sit at a science classroom table working on an Amplify Science experiment with worksheets and materials. Their faces are covered by heart shapes for privacy.

Grade 2: Changing Landforms
With spray bottles, chalk, and water, students model how landforms near water can change over time. Their diagrams connect the hands-on investigation to nonfiction text features, helping them represent what they observe.

Credit: Connor Carson, Jonathan Burr Elementary School, IL

Children are seated around a table working on a card activity with trays and plastic bags; two illustrated images, one of a village and one of a shoreline, are shown on the right, perfect for displaying on the Classroom Wall in any science classroom.

Grade 2: Changing Landforms
Sand samples give students a hands-on way to investigate how landforms can change over time.

Credit: Rebecca Steindler O’Brien, P.S. 51 The Elias Howe School, NY

A science classroom bulletin board displays paper rocks with stick figure drawings, surrounded by student photos and instructional materials on cave paintings and early human communication, offering valuable teacher resources for an engaging Classroom Wall display.

Grade 2: Changing Landforms
After observing four kinds of sand as geologists, students created their own petroglyphs.

Credit: Cindy Price, Colonial School District, DE

Grade 3

In grade 3, students investigate balancing forces with magnets, explore how traits are inherited, study hummingbirds and survival, and analyze rainfall data to build vivid ideas about weather and climate.

A classroom collage shows students collaborating on assignments, a bulletin board with lesson plans, and nature-themed icons in a grid layout—perfect teacher resources for any engaging science classroom inspired by Amplify Science.
A simple homemade maglev train model using a plastic cup, cardboard, tape, a paperclip, and a piece of string—perfect for hands-on activities in the science classroom—with related train and track illustrations on the right.

Grade 3: Balancing Forces

A hands-on magnet challenge has students testing and demonstrating the forces they observe.

Credit: Maureen Patt, Broad Street Elementary School, NH

Children sit at a classroom table working on hands-on activities with notebooks and pencils; large orange hearts cover their faces. An illustrated wolf sticker appears in the bottom right corner, with a vibrant classroom wall in the background.

Grade 3: Inheritance and Traits
Clay creatures give students a creative way to investigate how traits appear in real organisms.

Credit: Maribel Ramos, Esperanza Academy Charter School, PA

Four children are drawing and coloring pictures of animals at a table, surrounded by markers, books, worksheets, and other teacher resources for creative hands-on activities.

Grade 3: Inheritance and Traits
Student-created drawings capture students’ explanations of inherited traits.

Credit: Sandi O’Brien, Parkmead Elementary School, CA

Two children sit at a wooden table working on bird identification worksheets, surrounded by books and clear plastic bags—engaged in hands-on activities inspired by Amplify Science.

Grade 3: Inheritance and Traits
Students compare pigeon offspring with parent pairs as they look for similarities in inherited traits.

Credit: Sandi O’Brien, Parkmead Elementary School, CA

Four children work on assignments at a table with laptops and papers in a science classroom. Two illustrations of wolves in nature scenes are displayed on the Classroom Wall to the right.

Grade 3: Inheritance and Traits
A celery investigation helps students see how the environment can affect traits.

Credit: Sandi O’Brien, Parkmead Elementary School, CA

Students in a science classroom conduct a hands-on experiment with lab materials while taking notes; two animal illustrations appear on the right side, enhancing this engaging scene for your Classroom Wall.

Grade 3: Environments and Survival
Ruby-throated hummingbirds with different traits become models for how organisms meet their needs for food.

Credit: Sandi O’Brien, Parkmead Elementary School, CA

Students conduct a science experiment with clear cups of water on a table in a vibrant science classroom, surrounded by worksheets and nature-themed drawings; perfect for Amplify Science teacher resources.

Grade 3: Weather and Climate
Rainfall data fills the classroom as students collect, measure, and compare patterns in weather and climate.

Credit: Sandi O’Brien, Parkmead Elementary School, CA

A Classroom Wall features a weather-themed unit with questions, images of animals, chapter prompts about predicting weather for orangutans, and hands-on activities—perfect teacher resources to engage students.

Grade 3: Weather and Climate
Weather and climate thinking grows across the Classroom Wall as students connect observations, data, and explanations about changing weather patterns.

Credit: Buffy Scott Marcantel, Maplewood Elementary, LA

A collage featuring a science classroom with students working at desks, a cardboard box, two cityscapes, and a group with a fan and paper object—highlighting moments of discovery inspired by Amplify Science.

Grade 4

In grade 4, students explore energy conversions through solar panels, LEDs, and wind turbines; investigate how light supports vision; and create models and scientific explanations to illuminate the world around them.

Two children sit on a blue rug near a fan, engaging in hands-on activities. One holds a paper object, while their faces are covered by orange heart shapes. Other children and classroom items, including the colorful Classroom Wall, are visible in the background.

Grade 4: Energy Conversions

Students construct and test wind turbines designed to power an LED, exploring how an alternative energy source can be converted into electricity.

Credit: Ashley LaPierre, P.S. 343 Peck Slip School, NY

Five children stand indoors by a window, engaged in hands-on activities as they draw or paint on the glass. Their faces are obscured with orange heart shapes. An illustration of a building is overlaid in the corner, resembling a decorated classroom wall.

Grade 4: Energy Conversions
Solar panels, alligator clips, wires, an LED, and a buzzer come together in student-built energy systems.

Credit: Sandi O’Brien, Parkmead Elementary School, CA

A bulletin board labeled "SCIENCE" displays paper windmill projects, highlighting hands-on activities; two small digital illustrations of buildings at night decorate the right side of this vibrant Classroom Wall.

Grade 4: Energy Conversions
Paper-plate wind turbines turn students’ ideas about energy conversions into a classroom display.

Credit: Sandi O’Brien, Parkmead Elementary School, CA

A cardboard box with a hole sits on a classroom table with papers, tape, markers, a water bottle, and students in the background; two Amplify Science diagrams are on the side—perfect for teacher resources or display on the Classroom Wall.

Grade 4: Vision and Light
Students plan vision models as they work to represent how light enables seeing.

Credit: Maribel Ramos, Esperanza Academy Charter School, PA

Five students sit at desks engaged in hands-on activities with papers and pencils; a small inset shows a digital illustration of a night scene with a laser beam, perfect for inspiring new ideas for your Classroom Wall.

Grade 4: Vision and Light
Scientific explanations show students connecting evidence to what they understand about vision and light.

Credit: Chrissy Campenni, Wyoming Area Intermediate Center, PA

Classroom Wall display titled "Let's meet the Tokay Gecko!" features student drawings, Amplify Science facts, and rainforest info about Tokay geckos on a vibrant yellow background—perfect for teacher resources and classroom learning.

Grade 4: Vision and Light
Student work and colorful gecko drawings bring the Vision and Light unit to life as the class investigates how light affects vision in a rain forest.

Credit: Chrissy Campenni, Wyoming Area Intermediate Center, PA

Grade 5

In grade 5, students explore patterns in earth and sky, investigate mixtures and substances, model freshwater systems, and build terrariums and food webs that reveal the connections within ecosystems.

A collage of science activities, including experiments, diagrams, and a green bulletin board labeled “Science—Force & Motion,” decorates the classroom wall, offering engaging teacher resources for hands-on activities.
Four children are in a dimly lit room; three engage with a box on the floor while one stands by a shelf, possibly exploring teacher resources for Amplify Science. Faces are obscured with orange shapes.

Grade 5: Patterns of Earth and Sky

Students investigate daytime and nighttime as they look for patterns.

Credit: Sandi O’Brien, Parkmead Elementary School, CA

A photo of orange clay with blue shapes arranged on top, shown alongside illustrations of Earth from space and a yellow planet—perfect for hands-on activities in the science classroom or for bringing Amplify Science lessons to life.

Grade 5: Patterns of Earth and Sky
Hands-On Flextension: Student-created artifacts make patterns visible.

Credit: Adriana Barrera, J.W. Bishop Elementary School, TX

Classroom bulletin board features Amplify Science learning objectives, vocabulary charts, student work, and colorful educational posters against a teal wall—perfect for showcasing hands-on activities and valuable teacher resources.

Grade 5: Patterns of Earth and Sky
A growing collection of questions and explanations captures students’ thinking.

Credit: Christy Flynn, South Grant Elementary School, LA

Students conduct a hands-on science experiment at a classroom table, working with clear plastic cups and following written instructions. Faces are obscured for privacy, making this scene an ideal example for teacher resources in the science classroom.

Grade 5: Modeling Matter

Hands-on tests with different substances give students a close look at how materials’ properties can be observed, compared, and described.

Credit: Halli Trinker, John Hill School, NJ

Two children sit at a science classroom table working on a hands-on project with tape, foil, and other materials. Their faces are covered with orange heart shapes.

Grade 5: Modeling Matter
Flavor ingredients become evidence as students test and compare the properties of different substances.

Credit: Kevin Butters, Stolley Park Elementary, NE

A group of students stand around a table mixing ingredients into bowls, with several small orange containers on a tray in the foreground—engaged in hands-on activities perfect for teacher resources or display on a Classroom Wall.

Grade 5: Modeling Matter
Students test ingredients to create salad dressing and observe how substances interact.

Credit: Sandi O’Brien, Parkmead Elementary School, CA

Students engage in hands-on activities with geometric shape worksheets at a table stocked with colored pencils, rulers, and scissors; two scientific illustrations of molecules and red blood cells enhance the science classroom setting.

Grade 5: Modeling Matter
Classroom discussion and work show students investigating solubility and attraction.

Credit: Cristina Cullen, Stanton Elementary School, CA

Classroom bulletin board with science vocabulary words, key concepts, unit questions, and student artwork related to mixtures and substances—perfect for teacher resources or supporting Amplify Science hands-on activities.

Grade 5: Modeling Matter
Vocabulary, unit questions, and student artwork show the class making sense of mixtures, substances, and the properties of matter.

Credit: Cristina Cullen, Stanton Elementary School, CA

Classroom Wall bulletin board displays science posters, handwritten notes, diagrams, and teacher resources about matter, solutions, and properties of substances on a gray wall.

Grade 5: Modeling Matter
A Modeling Matter Classroom Wall captures students’ thinking about why salad dressing ingredients separate after mixing.

Credit: Shannon Cox, Zwolle Elementary School, LA

Two people engage in hands-on activities as they mix a yellow substance in a plastic bag at a table with lab equipment, containers, and a worksheet, bringing interactive learning to life beneath the colorful Classroom Wall.

Grade 5: The Earth System
As students mix substances in sealed bags, they observe heat, color change, gas formation, and a changed smell, experiencing the evidence that a reaction has occurred.

Credit: Stacey King, Gonzales Primary School, LA

Plastic cups and containers covered with plastic wrap and labeled, set on trays atop a science classroom table, likely part of a science experiment.

Grade 5: The Earth System
Freshwater system designs show students applying their understanding of how Earth’s systems interact.

Credit: Sandi O’Brien, Parkmead Elementary School, CA

Four children closely observe a plant sample on a classroom table, taking notes, while another group of three children works with similar materials nearby. The scene highlights hands-on activities in a vibrant science classroom, with informative posters displayed on the Classroom Wall.

Grade 5: Ecosystem Restoration
During terrarium observation, students closely examine their grass-filled ecosystems and record evidence of how living things interact within a model ecosystem.

Credit: Shannon Cox, Zwolle Elementary School, LA

Three children in red shirts hold a container with grass and soil in a hallway, engaging in hands-on activities; two small illustrations of soil with worms and jungle animals decorate the Classroom Wall nearby.

Grade 5: Ecosystem Restoration
Students build terrariums to model how living things interact within an ecosystem.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

Children are seated on the floor working with colored beads and activity sheets about leaves and seeds; two small illustrations of leaves and a sloth are overlaid on the image, highlighting Amplify Science teacher resources in use.

Grade 5: Ecosystem Restoration
The Leaves and Roots game gives students a hands-on way to explore relationships in an ecosystem.

Credit: Cyndi Crouch, Eagle Heights Elementary School, MO

Children sit at desks using laptops in a science classroom, holding plush animals. An illustrated leopard image appears in the bottom right corner. Faces are covered with orange heart shapes.

Grade 5: Ecosystem Restoration
Stuffed animals become the basis for student-created food web models.

Credit: Halli Trinker, John Hill School, NJ

Students work in a classroom on a water experiment with sponges and containers, engaging in hands-on activities that foster exploration and discovery; additional close-up images of nature and abstract art are included in the collage, making it an ideal visual for teacher resources inspired by Amplify Science.

Grade 6

In grade 6, students explore microorganisms through microscopes, investigate how body systems use energy, and develop climate thinking by examining ocean currents, air parcels, thermal energy, and weather patterns.

A student in an orange sweater draws on a worksheet labeled “Spider leg” near a laptop on a science classroom desk.

Grade 6: Microbiome extension activity

Before beginning the Microbiome unit, students step into Robert Hooke’s role by using a virtual microscope to observe specimens and sketch what they see at increasing magnifications. Their drawings make the changing detail visible as they study specimens at 4x, 10x, 40x, and 100x.

Credit: Jessica Kruger, Gardner International Magnet School, MI

Students wearing red uniforms work together at a desk with a laptop in a classroom; inset shows a close-up of a floral-patterned fabric.

Grade 6: Microbiome
Scale drawings help students represent microorganisms at a size they can study and discuss.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

A person in a red shirt looks into a microscope at a table with plastic trays and containers; a heart graphic covers their face.

Grade 6: Microbiome
Hands-On Flextension: Students investigate microscopic evidence of life as they look for signs of living things.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

Two students sit at a table in a classroom, measuring liquid with a graduated cylinder as part of hands-on activities; an Amplify Science kit and supplies are nearby. An illustration is shown in a smaller overlay.

Grade 6: Metabolism
Water, phenol red, baking soda, and calcium chloride give students a way to investigate chemical reactions.

Credit: Jessica Kruger, Gardner International Magnet School, MI

Students wearing red shirts participate in a classroom activity involving labeled diagrams at their desks. Faces are covered for privacy.

Grade 6: Metabolism
A classroom body systems model helps students represent how the body obtains and uses energy.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

Nine granola or snack bars of various shapes and textures are arranged in a grid on a table covered with white paper. A small inset image shows a colorful artwork.

Grade 6: Metabolism Engineering Internship
Healthy bars showcase students’ work as they apply ideas about energy and the body.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

A science classroom whiteboard displays handwritten notes, charts, and diagrams from Amplify Science, with papers and folders scattered on a nearby table and three red chairs in front.

Grade 6: Metabolism
This Classroom Wall brings together student questions, models, and explanations about how the body obtains and uses energy.

Credit: Joshua Ryan Abellera, Fertitta Middle School, NV

A classroom whiteboard displays handwritten notes on metabolism, with unit questions, key concepts, and vocabulary related to cells, energy, and biomolecules—perfect teacher resources for engaging lessons.

Grade 6: Metabolism
Handwritten questions and vocabulary make the connections among body systems, energy, and metabolism visible across the Wall.

Credit: Crystal Cuaron Baker, Mesa Middle School, NM

A classroom bulletin board displays a "Science Has All The Solutions" banner with student artwork and Amplify Science assignments clipped below it—an inspiring showcase of teacher resources for any science classroom.

Grade 6: Metabolism
Unit Questions and student work document a class developing explanations about metabolism and energy.

Credit: Jessica Kruger, Gardner International Magnet School, MI

Classroom Wall display featuring four grade-level posters with unit questions, vocabulary words, and key concepts organized in columns—an essential teacher resource for engaging lessons.

Grade 6: Metabolism
A 12-foot bulletin board gives Sheyenne Cahalan’s sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students their own spaces to display Unit Questions, vocabulary, and key concepts, with borders separating each grade’s section.

Credit: Sheyenne Cahalan, Knox County R-1 School District, MO

Three students sit at a classroom table with beakers, conducting a science experiment. Faces are covered with orange heart shapes.

Grade 6: Thermal Energy
Hot and cold water simulations give students a way to observe thermal energy in motion.

Credit: Whitney Stewart, Bolton Academy, LA

Students work on a science experiment with plants in the science classroom and record observations on worksheets; faces are covered for privacy. This activity can be enhanced using teacher resources from Amplify Science.

Grade 6: Ocean, Atmosphere, and Climate
With current tanks, predictions, and observation sheets, students investigate how water moves and record what happens as they test different ocean current conditions.

Credit: Jessica Kruger, Gardner International Magnet School, MI

Two students in red shirts sit at a desk playing an educational board game; their faces are covered with orange heart shapes.

Grade 6: Ocean, Atmosphere, and Climate
As students play Ocean Currents, they model the interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, and climate.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

Two yellow plastic containers on a black table, each holding water and a green sponge—a perfect setup for hands-on activities inspired by Amplify Science. Three smaller images feature a house, raindrops, and a nature scene, making this an engaging visual resource for teachers seeking creative science classroom ideas.

Grade 6: Weather Patterns
Two sponges and water containers make the relationship between surface water, air parcels, and precipitation visible as students compare how much water each sponge can hold.

Credit: Andrea Golden, Franklin Township Community School Corporation, IN

Four people in red shirts hold and inflate a large clear plastic bag in a science classroom decorated with a brick wall and paper leaf display. Faces are covered with orange heart shapes, creating an engaging scene for teacher resources or displays.

Grade 6: Weather Patterns
A warm air parcel model helps students explain how weather patterns develop.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

Classroom whiteboard displays key concepts, unit question, and vocabulary related to climate change, featuring Amplify Science materials and a colorful "Welcome" banner with posters above.

Grade 6: Earth’s Changing Climate
Students organize their developing thinking about the causes and effects of Earth’s changing climate using key concepts, the Unit Question, and vocabulary.

Credit: Karen Wynne, Portola Middle School, CA

Grade 7

In grade 7, students investigate water on Mars, model atoms and molecules, design tsunami-alert systems, and explore how yeast populations change, celebrating science through creative models, engineering, and evidence-based thinking.

A collage shows students working at whiteboards and desks in a science classroom, a handwritten classroom poster, and close-up images of plants and frogs. Students’ faces are covered with heart shapes for privacy, highlighting the use of Amplify Science teacher resources to support engaging learning environments.
A rectangular tray filled with sand displays branching patterns resembling river channels; a painting of a desert landscape is shown in the top right corner.

Grade 7: Geology on Mars

The Flowing Water Model puts evidence of water on Mars into students’ hands.

Credit: Kim Eich, Oakview Middle School, MN

The classroom whiteboard in this science classroom displays a unit question, key concepts, vocabulary words with definitions, and various colorful drawings related to planetary habitability.

Grade 7: Geology on Mars
The Flowing Water Model captures the class’s investigation of evidence for water on Mars.

Credit: Kim Eich, Oakview Middle School, MN

Six children stand at a whiteboard labeled “Tsunami Alert Leaderboard,” looking at papers and discussing scores in a science classroom. The lively activity showcases collaborative learning, enhanced by interactive teacher resources displayed on the classroom wall.

Grade 7: Plate Motion Engineering Internship
During the Tsunami Alert Challenge, students compare designs, calculate cost-per-minute ratios, and engineer systems to warn communities about approaching tsunamis.

Credit: Kim Eich, Oakview Middle School, MN

Several students in red sweaters work together at a classroom table, focusing on hands-on activities. Two graphic icons—a satellite and a puzzle piece—appear near the Classroom Wall on the right side of the image.

Grade 7: Plate Motion Engineering Internship
Tsunami wave models and student-designed solutions capture the engineering challenge of preparing communities for plate-motion hazards.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

Classroom bulletin board showcases maps, printed questions, key concept cards, and vocabulary words from Amplify Science, supporting plate tectonics and fossil units with engaging teacher resources.

Grade 7: Plate Motion
The Unit Question, chapter questions, fossil-evidence maps, plate-boundary diagrams, key concepts, and vocabulary show students building an explanation of how Earth’s plates move and shape its surface.

Credit: Anna Radef, Ralph Cadwallader Middle School, NV

Four children are seated around a classroom table conducting hands-on activities with water and plastic bottles. Two small inset images show energy sources and colored particles, adding to the engaging classroom wall display.

Grade 7: Chemical Reactions
Close observation of changing substances helps students distinguish chemical reactions from other changes.

Credit: Ashlie Beals Arkwright, SCAPA at Bluegrass, KY

A science classroom bulletin board displays information about atoms, chemical reactions, and the periodic table, with diagrams, definitions, and question prompts pinned to a blue background as useful teacher resources.

Grade 7: Chemical Reactions
Chapter questions, atom and molecule models, and a periodic table make the class’s thinking visible as students investigate how substances change and atoms rearrange during chemical reactions.

Credit: Lindsey Hampf, Upper Township Middle School, NJ

Three students sit at a classroom table with science experiment materials in front of them, engaging in hands-on activities; their faces are covered with orange heart shapes. Two small images show a parrot and scientific equipment on the Classroom Wall.

Grade 7: Populations and Resources
A yeast experiment gives students a close-up look at how populations grow and use available resources.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

A person writes on a worksheet near foil-covered pizza boxes outdoors, engaging in hands-on activities; small images of a planet and a gold object appear on the left, suggesting connections to Amplify Science and valuable teacher resources.

Grade 7: Solar oven extension activity
Foil-lined pizza boxes become student-built solar ovens as students track temperature changes and test whether sunlight can heat marshmallows for s’mores.

Credit: Ryan Rudkin, Valley View Charter Montessori Middle School, CA

A classroom whiteboard displays a third-grade science lesson on ecosystems, energy storage, carbon cycles, and related chapter questions. A printed Amplify Science booklet and string lights are attached, offering valuable teacher resources to support engaging, hands-on activities for students.

Grade 7: Matter and Energy in Ecosystems
A carefully organized Classroom Wall brings together Unit Questions, vocabulary, models, and diagrams that make photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and carbon cycling visible.

Credit: Ashley Wood, Grand Blanc West Middle School, MI

A collage showing students doing science activities, handwritten notes on a board, and three science-themed illustrations—perfect inspiration for any science classroom or teacher resources collection.

Grade 8

In grade 8, students explore human energy, force, and light while investigating moon phases, changing populations, and evolutionary history through engaging models, hands-on investigations, and evidence-based scientific thinking.

Three students work on a science experiment with wires, batteries, and lightbulbs in a lively science classroom, surrounded by open books and colored pencils. Two illustrated inserts display engaging science-themed graphics.

Grade 8: Harnessing Human Energy

Energy systems and movement models show how the human body harnesses energy.

Credit: Lisa Anglim, Elizabeth Ustach Middle School, CA

A Classroom Wall bulletin board displays an 8th grade Amplify Science unit with vocabulary words, key concepts, questions, and a brown bear head wall decoration.

Grade 8: Harnessing Human Energy
This Classroom Wall keeps the Unit Question, chapter questions, key concepts, and vocabulary easy to display and revisit. Peel-and-stick plastic desk calendar corners hold the cards securely to a bulletin board.

Credit: Lisa Anglim, Elizabeth Ustach Middle School, CA

A classroom whiteboard displays science notes about energy, with "SCIENCE" spelled out in large black balloons above the board—a vibrant example of a science classroom using creative teacher resources.

Grade 8: Harnessing Human Energy
A carefully organized Classroom Wall brings the Unit Question, chapter and investigation questions, key vocabulary, and students’ thinking about potential and kinetic energy into view.

Credit: Maria Katsanos, P.S./I.S. 268, NY

A science classroom whiteboard displays a science lesson schedule, key concepts, and unit questions—organized with columns and color-coded markings to support hands-on activities inspired by Amplify Science.

Grade 8: Harnessing Human Energy
As an educator who teaches both grades 7 and 8, Erica Fernandez makes students’ scientific thinking visible throughout the classroom.

Credit: Erica Fernandez, Elsinore Middle School, CA

Two students in red shirts collaborate on a hands-on activity at a table in a science classroom; two smaller images feature a spacecraft and a graphic with bicycles, highlighting engaging Amplify Science lessons.

Grade 8: Force and Motion
Different objects become test cases as students investigate how forces affects motion.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

Two people in red sweaters hold a wrapped gift together, their faces covered with orange heart shapes. This image is perfect for classroom wall displays or teacher resources focused on hands-on activities. Two smaller inset images appear on the right.

Grade 8: Force and Motion Engineering Internship
Student-designed egg-drop models put collision protection to the test.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

A science classroom bulletin board displays information, diagrams, and questions about force and motion, featuring neatly arranged printed sheets on a green background to inspire hands-on activities.

Grade 8: Force and Motion
For visual learners, self-designed anchor charts turn concepts from each chapter into colorful, easy-to-reference images.

Credit: Natalia Seoane, Heritage Intermediate School, CA

A person pouring liquid on a pink balloon, a hand holding a green balloon over styrofoam pieces, and two small illustrations of balloons and a satellite dish—perfect visuals for hands-on activities in the science classroom.

Grade 8: Magnetic Fields
Hands-On Flextension: Electrostatic force becomes visible through hands-on exploration of forces acting at a distance.

Credit: Melanie Wenger, Lincoln Park Middle School, NJ

Students are seated at a table writing in notebooks, with a microscope and worksheets on the table; a graphic of colorful waveforms is shown to the right.

Grade 8: Light Waves
Students observe light changing materials as they watch for changes in color, temperature, and movement.

Credit: Gloria Davis, Dolores S. Whitley Elementary School, CA

Two students conduct a science experiment with red laser light and lenses on a desk surrounded by open textbooks and notebooks.

Grade 8: Light Waves
Students investigate what happens to light as it travels.

Credit: Gloria Davis, Dolores S. Whitley Elementary School, CA

A group of students sit around a table working on papers in a classroom; an illustration of a snowboarder is shown in the corner.

Grade 8: Light Waves
In a fishbowl discussion, students share observations and evidence about light waves.

Credit: Gloria Davis, Dolores S. Whitley Elementary School, CA

Two students in red sweaters sit on the floor near a ruler, with a night cityscape and a painted solar system illustration overlayed on the right—perfect inspiration for any science classroom or Classroom Wall.

Grade 8: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Paper moon-phase models help students explain the Moon’s changing appearance.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO

Classroom bulletin board showcases maps, printed questions, key concept cards, and vocabulary words from Amplify Science, supporting plate tectonics and fossil units with engaging teacher resources.

Grades 8: Natural Selection
Questions, vocabulary, and key concepts show a class making sense of how traits and populations change over time.

Credit: Anna Radef, Ralph Cadwallader Middle School, NV

A student wearing gloves uses a stick to work on a project at a classroom table; face is covered by a heart shape.

Grade 8: Evolutionary History
Hands-On Flextension: Reconstructed owl pellet skeletons give students evidence for investigating relationships among organisms over time.

Credit: Elizabeth DeBoo, St. Frances Cabrini Academy, MO