Experiments
Hands-on experiments aligned with RS4K books and chapters. Click any chapter to open a downloadable PDF.
Each PDF contains: Student experiment pages & teacher instructions.
Books 1–6: A quick experiment instruction page for students and matching guidance for teachers.
Book 7: Instructions are built into the student notebook pages. The teacher's guide includes tips for supporting more advanced learners.
Book 1
- Chapter 1 – Liquid Showdown: Which Melts Ice Fastest?
- Chapter 2 – Adventures: Paper Cutting Challenge
- Chapter 5 – Blowing Up a Balloon with Baking Soda and Vinegar
- Chapter 7 – Life or Not? The Great Pet Rock Investigation
- Chapter 9 – Germ Quest: The Secret Life of Bacteria
- Chapter 11 – Squish and Smash: The Marshmallow Physics Experiment
- Chapter 12 – Launch Lab: Unleashing Paper Airplane Power
- Chapter 15 – Rock Quest: The Science of Stones and Minerals
- Chapter 17 – Quake and Shake: The Soil Jiggle Test (Home Edition)
- Chapter 21 – Hot and Cold in Space: Planet Temperature Quest
Book 2
- Chapter 1 – Go Gadgets! Designing and Making Your Own Science Tools
- Chapter 3 – Acid or Base? The Litmus Paper Challenge
- Chapter 5 – Myth Buster Test: Can the Tongue Really Sense Different Tastes?
- Chapter 9 – Mold Patrol: Keeping the Fuzz Away
- Chapter 12 – Raceway Rumble: Testing Toy Cars on Various Surfaces
- Chapter 13 – Mission: Rescue the Moon Rover
- Chapter 17 – Breath Detectives: Discovering CO₂ with Limewater
- Chapter 19 – Night Sky Adventures: Mapping the Stars
Book 3
- Chapter 3 – Cracking the Case of Mixed Dyes with Column Chromatography
- Chapter 4 – Cross-Linked Chaos: The Polymer Science of Slime
- Chapter 7 – Plant Power: Discovering What Makes Plants Grow
- Chapter 8 – From Roots to Leaves
- Chapter 12 Part 1 – Power Circuit Parade: Pass the Electrons!
- Chapter 12 Part 2 – Light It Up: DIY Paper Circuit Fun
- Chapter 14 – Raindrops: Simulating the Water Cycle
- Chapter 16 – Exploring Earth's Invisible Magnetic Field
- Chapter 19 – Milky Way Walkabout
- Chapter 22 – Nature's Recycler: Biology and Chemistry of the Compost Cycle
Book 4
- Chapter 2 – The Electron Hotel
- Chapter 5 – Hands-on-Heat: A Molecular Model of Energy Transfer
- Chapter 8 – Exploring Pill Bug and Sow Bug Behavior
- Chapter 11 – Water Music Board
- Chapter 12 – What Color is Your Atom?
- Chapter 14 – Cycle Spy Activity: Where did that Come From?
- Chapter 15 – Battle for the Ecosystem Game
- Chapter 16 – From Wind to Water to Watts
- Chapter 18 – Search for an Exoplanet
- Chapter 20 – Tough Tardigrades: Space Survivors on a Slide
Book 5
- Chapter 1 – Precision and Accuracy: The Great Liquid Lab
- Chapter 4 – Explaining Atoms to the People of Planet Atomis
- Chapters 6, 7 & 8 – Cell Theory and the Definition of Life
- Chapter 9 – Battle of the Bacteria: Which Cleaner Will Win?
- Chapter 11 – The Mighty Motion: Forces at Work & Play!
- Chapter 12 – The Great Park-Cleanup Problem: To Solve
- Chapter 15 – Mud Matters: The Science of Soil
- Chapter 19 – Tilted Tales: How Earth's Axis Creates Seasons
- Chapter 21 – AI Joins the Mission to Map the Planets
Book 6
- Chapter 1 – Future Creators: Navigating the World of TinkerCad and AR
- Chapter 3 – Indicator Investigators: The Magic of Red Cabbage!
- Chapter 4 – The Great pH Color Change Experiment
- Chapter 7 – Zoom In: Adventures with the Microscope
- Chapter 8 – Whirling Wonders: Exploring Protist Motion
- Chapters 11, 12 & 13 – Pendulums in Motion
- Chapters 16 & 17 – GeoExplorer Quest
- Chapter 19 – Starlight Shadows: Navigating with Constellations
- Chapter 22 – The Nobel Pursuit
Book 7
- Chapter 2 – Using Atomic Clues to Predict Solubility
- Chapter 3 – The Science & Art of Being a Perfumer
- Chapter 5 – Which Fruit Has the Most DNA?
- Chapter 8 – How Botanical Researchers Study Plant Structures
- Chapters 12 & 13 – Build Your Own Electromagnet
- Chapter 15 – Walk Like an Environmental Ethologist
- Chapter 16 – Exploring the Magnetosphere Using a Compass
- Chapter 18 – Be a Galaxy Cartographer
- Chapter 20 – Looking for Black Holes
