Slime Science! STEAM Activity Guide

NorthStar’s STEAM activity guides can be used as a stand-alone secular science curriculum or as a homeschool unit study to bring variety and enhance the science curriculum of your choice. Slime Science! was designed with homeschool families in mind, but it is equally useful for classrooms, cooperatives, afterschool programs, summer camps, and science clubs. The flexible unit study plan encourages child-led learning with inquiry and discovery at the core of the activity design. With excellent books, math, and literacy activities, this guide is full of cross-curricular activities to extend the learning. All activities are kid-tested and kid-approved, so the fun is guaranteed!

This 25-page guide is packed full of easy, fun STEAM activities for elementary kids:

• 2 main hands-on STEM projects for elementary and middle school students ages 5-12 with detailed how-tos, troubleshooting, supply lists, and information about the science 

• Play-based math and literacy activities integrated into core projects

• Big ideas prep adults with the main concepts, including the scientific method, elasticity, and viscosity

• Curious questions prompt inquiry-based learning for deep science exploration and discovery

• 4 carefully selected living book recommendations - Excellent book selections which highlight key scientific topics and share the science behind slime (books are not required to complete the study)

• Engaging kid-approved media recommendations to explain the science

• Notebooking activities and templates - kids will make a “Discovery Journal” to track and reflect on learning

• Slime recipe cards and labels that make great gift ideas!

• The Great Slime Showdown tracking sheet to analyze slime versions and experiments

• Level indicators to make it easy to select activities or differentiate for the ages of your learners - from early elementary through middle school

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The NorthStar Approach - A Learning Adventure

Engage: Great books and media recommendations help teach the big ideas.

Explore: Hands-on science explorations, process art, food fun, and more provide multi-sensory learning experiences to deepen understanding.

Express: Children are encouraged to track their observations in their Discovery Journal and to reflect on their key discoveries at the end of their studies.  

Extend: Children are encouraged to take it further with resources to deepen learning about the topic and additional project ideas. Each lab includes optional cross-curricular extensions, including math and literacy activities with poetry copy work, wordplay, math fun, and story starters.

Praise for “Slime Science”

“It was WAY more fun than I anticipated. This is not a one-and-done activity and what we did today not only introduced the kids in a very fun way to the scientific method, but it also laid out the framework for forming more questions and predictions in the future. We started off by coloring this morning and listening to the suggested podcast, which was good for me bc of the kids didn’t catch some facts, I was able to so that when we were experimenting, I could describe the science behind what was happening in real-time. We made three types of slime (Basic, Stretchy, and Fluffy) May I suggest the basic recipe with cornstarch to be done last; it was by far the messiest and the most fun. The kids learned some new terms: viscosity, non-Newtonian fluid, and elasticity while they were engaged hands-on. We will definitely be coming back to this activity so we can continue experimenting with new recipes and comparing them for the ‘The Great Slime Showdown’ section.” - B. Acciavatti, eclectic homeschoolers @homeschoolingtheacciavattis