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 1â6: 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 â Liquid Showdown: Which Melts Ice Fastest?
- Chapter 2 â Adventures: Paper Cutting Challenge
- Chapter 5 â Blowing Up a Balloon with Baking Soda and Vinegar
- Chapter 7 â Life or Not? The Great Pet Rock Investigation
- Chapter 9 â Germ Quest: The Secret Life of Bacteria
- Chapter 11 â Squish and Smash: The Marshmallow Physics Experiment
- Chapter 12 â Launch Lab: Unleashing Paper Airplane Power
- Chapter 15 â Rock Quest: The Science of Stones and Minerals
- Chapter 17 â Quake and Shake: The Soil Jiggle Test (Home Edition)
- Chapter 21 â Hot and Cold in Space: Planet Temperature Quest
Book 2
- Chapter 1 â Go Gadgets! Designing and Making Your Own Science Tools
- Chapter 3 â Acid or Base? The Litmus Paper Challenge
- Chapter 5 â Myth Buster Test: Can the Tongue Really Sense Different Tastes?
- Chapter 9 â Mold Patrol: Keeping the Fuzz Away
- Chapter 12 â Raceway Rumble: Testing Toy Cars on Various Surfaces
- Chapter 13 â Mission: Rescue the Moon Rover
- Chapter 17 â Breath Detectives: Discovering COâ with Limewater
- Chapter 19 â Night Sky Adventures: Mapping the Stars
Book 3
- Chapter 3 â Cracking the Case of Mixed Dyes with Column Chromatography
- Chapter 4 â Cross-Linked Chaos: The Polymer Science of Slime
- Chapter 7 â Plant Power: Discovering What Makes Plants Grow
- Chapter 8 â From Roots to Leaves
- Chapter 12 Part 1 â Power Circuit Parade: Pass the Electrons!
- Chapter 12 Part 2 â Light It Up: DIY Paper Circuit Fun
- Chapter 14 â Raindrops: Simulating the Water Cycle
- Chapter 16 â Exploring Earth's Invisible Magnetic Field
- Chapter 19 â Milky Way Walkabout
- Chapter 22 â Nature's Recycler: Biology and Chemistry of the Compost Cycle
Book 4
- Chapter 2 â The Electron Hotel
- Chapter 5 â Hands-on-Heat: A Molecular Model of Energy Transfer
- Chapter 8 â Exploring Pill Bug and Sow Bug Behavior
- Chapter 11 â Water Music Board
- Chapter 12 â What Color is Your Atom?
- Chapter 14 â Cycle Spy Activity: Where did that Come From?
- Chapter 15 â Battle for the Ecosystem Game
- Chapter 16 â From Wind to Water to Watts
- Chapter 18 â Search for an Exoplanet
- Chapter 20 â Tough Tardigrades: Space Survivors on a Slide
Book 5
- Chapter 1 â Precision and Accuracy: The Great Liquid Lab
- Chapter 4 â Explaining Atoms to the People of Planet Atomis
- Chapters 6, 7 & 8 â Cell Theory and the Definition of Life
- Chapter 9 â Battle of the Bacteria: Which Cleaner Will Win?
- Chapter 11 â The Mighty Motion: Forces at Work & Play!
- Chapter 12 â The Great Park-Cleanup Problem: To Solve
- Chapter 15 â Mud Matters: The Science of Soil
- Chapter 19 â Tilted Tales: How Earth's Axis Creates Seasons
- Chapter 21 â AI Joins the Mission to Map the Planets
Book 6
- Chapter 1 â Future Creators: Navigating the World of TinkerCad and AR
- Chapter 3 â Indicator Investigators: The Magic of Red Cabbage!
- Chapter 4 â The Great pH Color Change Experiment
- Chapter 7 â Zoom In: Adventures with the Microscope
- Chapter 8 â Whirling Wonders: Exploring Protist Motion
- Chapters 11, 12 & 13 â Pendulums in Motion
- Chapters 16 & 17 â GeoExplorer Quest
- Chapter 19 â Starlight Shadows: Navigating with Constellations
- Chapter 22 â The Nobel Pursuit
Book 7
- Chapter 2 â Using Atomic Clues to Predict Solubility
- Chapter 3 â The Science & Art of Being a Perfumer
- Chapter 5 â Which Fruit Has the Most DNA?
- Chapter 8 â How Botanical Researchers Study Plant Structures
- Chapters 12 & 13 â Build Your Own Electromagnet
- Chapter 15 â Walk Like an Environmental Ethologist
- Chapter 16 â Exploring the Magnetosphere Using a Compass
- Chapter 18 â Be a Galaxy Cartographer
- Chapter 20 â Looking for Black Holes
