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Shrinking Plastic Sheets NGSS

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Make your own amazing designs and watch them shrink in the oven.

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Make your own amazing designs and watch them shrink in the oven (with adult supervision). Make key fobs, zipper pulls, window ornaments... a world of things to create. Works great with permanent markers, or "scuff" the sheets with fine sandpaper to use with colored pencils. Each pack includes 50 sheets of Shrinking Plastic, 100 loops for keychains or zipper pulls, one sheet of fine sandpaper and instructions. Can be used as a refill for BIO-150, Shrinkles® Plant and Animal Cells.
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Make shrinky dinks with this
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These sheets are wonderful for shrinky dinks. I cut a sheet in fourths and I am able to get enough shrinky dinks for all my students. This is a great end-of-year activity for high school chemistry, especially in conjunction with a unit on polymers.
Carole Henry

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Great Product
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Great Product! Arrived in a timely manner
Lisa

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One of my high schoolers favorite activities!
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These are a great method to have students learn material they'd normally just view on a diagram- we used them quite often in a senior level anatomy course. Having to draw the diagram helped them learn it better than just seeing it in the text. I found I could also use the bypass tray on the copier to photocopy diagrams for them to label, color, and shrink!
Jennifer Perry

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Fun at any age
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I used it with older students to review cells and their structure. It was an easy way to review and the high school students had discussions on how they don't colour enough anymore. I had the students turn them into keychains (use a single hole punch 6 times to keep the hole large enough) or stuck flexible magnet tape on the back, for their lockers. Even when the plastic shrinks in the oven, the students were mesmerized, just like little kids!
Carnold

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NGSS

This product will support your students' understanding of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)*, as shown in the table below.

Elementary Middle School High School

2-PS1-1

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets in an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.

5-PS1-1

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets in an investigation to develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

K-2-ETS1-2

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets during an investigation to develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

MS-PS1-1

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets in an investigation to develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.

MS-LS-1-1

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets to conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells, either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.

MS-LS-1-2

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets to develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function.

MS-LS-1-3

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets as part of the evidence to support an argument for how the body is s system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.

MS-LS-1-4

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets as part of an investigation to gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.

HS-PS1-1

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets in an investigation to predict properties of elements. Students can use the Periodic Table as a model to predict the relative properties of elements based on the patterns of electrons in the outermost energy level of atoms.

HS-PS2-6

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets in an investigation to communicate scientific and technical information about why the molecular-level structure is important in the functioning of designed materials.

HS-LS-1-1

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets to construct an explanation and models of cells based on evidence for how the structure of DNA determines the structure of proteins that carry out the essential functions of life through systems of specialized cells.

HS-LS-1-2

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets to develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions with multicellular organisms.

HS-LS-1-5

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets to develop a model to illustrate how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy.

Suggested Science Idea(s)

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets, colored pencils, and permanent markers to learn about density change in a material. Have some fun—draw, color and label the essential information on a sheet. Punch six close holes in the sheet before you shrink it down and students can make key chains, zipper pulls or backpack tags. No hole; add flexible magnet tape on the back, for a kitchen or locker magnet. Use a toaster oven and let students watch. They will be mesmerized as science takes over their shrinking project!

2-PS1-1
5-PS1-1
MS-PS1-1
HS-PS1-1
HS-PS2-6
MS-PS1-1

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets in an investigation to see density in action. The heat sensitive material is a polymer.

K-2-ETS1-2

Students can draw on the Shrinking Plastic Sheets during an investigation to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem. They can also cut out the object before shrinking to emphasize shape. Some students may want to make multiple objects and cut them out to make a mini jigsaw puzzle for form and function.

MS-LS1-1
MS-LS1-2
MS-LS1-3
MS-LS1-4
HS-LS-1-1
HS-LS-1-2
HS-LS-1-5

Students can use the Shrinking Plastic Sheets, colored pencils, and permanent markers to draw, color, and label the essential information about cells and DNA. Students can develop models that convey the complex functions and processes that occur. After the research and drawing is complete, students have the satisfaction of shrinking it. Punch six holes in the sheet before you shrink it down. Students can make jewelry or other items from their scientific model for continued learning.

 

* NGSS is a registered trademark of Achieve. Neither Achieve nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of, and do not endorse, this product.

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