ARIES: Physical and Earth/Space Science

Grades 3-8

Deepen your students’ understanding of physical and earth/space science through hands-on, inquiry-based learning. ARIES enhances your science curriculum by prompting students to explore prior knowledge, pose questions, build and use apparatus to observe natural phenomena, and construct a deeper understanding of scientific concepts.

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Components:

• Classroom Set for each module includes 1 Teacher Manual, 30 Science Journals, and 1 Apparatus Bin — at a savings of 30%!

• Teacher Manuals support regular classroom teachers as well as science specialists with background information, open-ended questions, assessments, and extension opportunities.

• Science Journals engage students in discovery-based learning: raising questions, exploring prior knowledge, forming hypotheses, gathering and organizing data, supporting conclusions with evidence.

• Students build apparatus to conduct direct explorations of natural phenomena and gather data

• Apparatus Bins contain the materials students need to construct the equipment they will use in making observations.

• Add-on Class Set (for 2nd year of usage or 2nd classroom) includes refill apparatus plus 30 Science Journals.

Grades 3-6
Sundials, Water Clocks, and Pendulums
What is time? How can we tell time without a clock?
Students explore the concepts of time and timekeeping. They study time from historical and cultural perspectives, they relate time to day and night and the seasons, and they build timekeeping devices.

Classroom Set $199.00

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Teacher Manual $95.00

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Science Journal $5.00

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Apparatus Bin $49.00

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Add-on Set $128.00

EXPLORING LIGHT
AND COLOR

Grades 3-6
Filters, Lenses, and Cameras Where does light come from?
Why do we see different colors?
Students investigate the characteristics of light. They examine light and vision, color filters, reflections, and lenses.

Classroom Set $399.00

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Teacher Manual $95.00

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Science Journal $5.00

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Apparatus Bin $249.00

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Add-on Set $278.00

Grades 3-6
Daylight, Sun, and Shadow Patterns
What causes day and night? How do we know that the Earth is a sphere?
Students investigate shadows, the changing relationship between the Earth and the Sun, the daily path of the Sun, and the spin of the Earth.

Classroom Set $449.00

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Teacher Manual $95.00

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Science Journal $5.00

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Apparatus Bin $249.00

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Add-on Set $228.00

Grades 5-8
Ripple Tanks, Vibrations, and Sound
What are waves? Can you see sound?
Students observe waves and wave motion, build ripple tanks to explore water waves, and make and play their own musical instruments to investigate sound.

Classroom Set $499.00

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Teacher Manual $95.00

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Science Journal $5.00

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Apparatus Bin $299.00

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Add-on Set $228.00

Grades 5-8
Cycles, Phases, and Patterns
What causes the phases of the Moon? How can we find the North Star?
Students explore the Earth-Sun relationship to discover the reasons for the seasons. They also develop a model for understanding the phases and motions of the Moon and learn how to find patterns in
the night sky.

Classroom Set $499.00

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Teacher Manual $95.00

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Science Journal $5.00

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Apparatus Bin $299.00

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Add-on Set $228.00

Grades 5-8
Speed, Acceleration, and Friction
What happens to the motion of a marble as it rolls down an incline? How can you use a weight to make a cart move?
Students use air pucks, balls and tracks, and fan carts to investigate various forces and their resultant motions. They develop a working understanding of the concepts of inertia, friction, gravity, speed,
and acceleration.

Classroom Set $599.00

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Teacher Manual $95.00

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Science Journal $5.00

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Apparatus Bin $449.00

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Add-on Set $278.00

Grades 5-8
Location, Direction, and Latitude
How can the stars help you find your way? How did explorers like Columbus or Lewis and Clark find their way?
Students develop an understanding of how to use the Sun and the stars to determine their location.

Classroom Set $399.00

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Teacher Manual $95.00

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Science Journal $5.00

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Apparatus Bin $199.00

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Add-on Set $228.00