Science Writing Prompts

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• Plate Tectonics Writing PromptsPrompts on plates that move as fast as a fingernail grows: two plates meet, a slow collision, a new island, the ground moves.
• Writing Prompts About TechnologyPrompts on the tools people use every day and what they change: a day without screens, an old machine, a rule for phones, what comes next.
• Science Writing Prompts About SoundPrompts on vibration, pitch and echo, each to be tried with the ears first: a quiet room, loud and soft, how a sound travels, an echo.
• Light Writing PromptsPrompts about light itself, the science topic: shadows, a rainbow on the wall, a world without light, mirrors and bends.
• Food Web Writing PromptsPrompts on food webs and food chains, told from one link: from sun to hawk, a missing link, the eater's side, the decomposers.
• Weather Writing PromptsPrompts on weather as news, as trouble for a plan and as a character: the forecast, a day the weather changed plans, if I were a storm, reading the sky.
• Energy Writing PromptsPrompts on energy as a science topic: where it comes from, a day of saving it, energy changing form, my own power plant.
• Evolution Writing PromptsPrompts on small changes over many generations: a beak for the job, moths and whales, a notebook on an island, what would change.
• Magnetism Writing PromptsPrompts on magnets and magnetism: what a magnet ignores, a compass and where it points, a magnet in a pocket, north and south poles.
• Writing Prompts About FossilsPrompts for a find, a museum drawer and the questions a fossil leaves open: the dig, a footprint in stone, what the bones cannot tell, my own fossil.
• Physics Writing PromptsPrompts for physics: a thrown ball, a ride on a wave, speeding up and slowing down, and a pendulum, each slowed down and told part by part.
• Solar System Writing PromptsPrompts that start from one NASA fact about a planet, the Sun or a moon: a day on another planet, the Sun, a postcard from a moon, pack for the trip.
• Writing Prompts About Weathering and ErosionPrompts told over thousands of years from a rock, a river and a beach: a rock's long life, the river's work, a canyon diary, after the storm.
• Adaptation Writing PromptsPrompts on animal adaptations: ears, paws, blubber and humps matched to cold and dry places, camouflage, warning colors, and animals to design.
• Writing Prompts About MatterPrompts on matter as a science topic: the three states, a day when things melt, an ice cube's journey and what things are made of.
• Biology Writing PromptsPrompts for biology that start from looking: pond water under a lens, what counts as alive, a worm or a flytrap at work, a notebook outdoors.
• Chemistry Writing PromptsPrompts for chemistry: reactions seen in a kitchen, one element as a character, mixtures taken apart again, and stories set in a careful lab.
• DNA Writing PromptsPrompts on inherited traits and a code of four letters: a code in every cell, what I got from whom, twins, a detective's clue.
• Ecosystems Writing PromptsPrompts on ecosystems: one pond and all its parts, one living thing taken out, the species that need each other, a newcomer.
• Engineering Writing PromptsPrompts on designing for a need, testing and fixing: a better everyday thing, a test that failed, a build for someone else, a bridge.
• Forces and Motion Writing PromptsPrompts on pushes and pulls, a ride down a playground slide, friction and a day without gravity, with facts from NASA.
• Hibernation Writing PromptsPrompts across one winter: getting ready, the long sleep, the animals that stay awake and the first morning out.
• Human Body Writing PromptsPrompts that follow one part of the body at work: the bones, a sandwich on its way through, a heartbeat, a body sitting still.
• Photosynthesis Writing PromptsPrompts that have a leaf explain how it makes food: its job, sunlight for breakfast, a plant kept in a cupboard, a thank-you to a tree.
• Robotics Writing PromptsPrompts for a robotics club: a robot built for one chore, a bug in the code, the first test and rules for robots.
• Writing Prompts for Rocks and MineralsPrompts for a rocks and minerals unit: a rock tells where it has been, the collection box, a mineral in daily use, a day with a geologist.
• Scientific Method Writing PromptsPrompts that walk one home experiment from question to conclusion: a question, a fair test, it did not work, what I would try next.
• Landform Writing PromptsPrompts that put the writer on one landform and ask what can be seen: a mountain, a valley, an island, a place that is flat for miles.
• Simple Machine Writing PromptsPrompts that find the six simple machines in a house and a playground: levers, ramps, pulleys, a seesaw and a slide.