I have been a science teacher in an urban School District for 7 years. During this time I have had the opportunity to experience teaching within classrooms at all levels of performance abilities, including full inclusion, and highly advanced classes.
I have taught middle school science (both the 7th and 8th grade) and at the high school level (9th to 12th grade science) including Anatomy, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Physical Science
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I have been a science teacher in an urban School District for 7 years. During this time I have had the opportunity to experience teaching within classrooms at all levels of performance abilities, including full inclusion, and highly advanced classes.
I have taught middle school science (both the 7th and 8th grade) and at the high school level (9th to 12th grade science) including Anatomy, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Physical Science
I have a PA Professional Certi
Appositives: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice identifying appositives within sentences.
This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify the appositive word or phrase. A multiple Choice (MC) version and an open ended version is provided. An answer sheet and an answer key are also included.
Apostrophes: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning the proper placement of apostrophes.
This activity has students correctly identifying the appropriate use of an apostrophe in a word as well as to tell wheather the word is a contraction, a singular possessive noun, or a plural possessive noun. An answer sheet and an answer key are included.
Zoo Animals/ Wild Animals Interactive Identification Game: This is not your average PowerPoint! This PowerPoint is a live-working interactive dichotomous key! Each slide has code embedded within it that allows the students to answer yes or no questions about zoo/ wild animals.
The students are to pick an animal they like to begin the "game" or lesson. The students are then presented with questions about marine animals such as: Is the animal a carnivore? Does the animal have a lot of fur? does the animal have a tail? etc.
After clicking the correct button, only the animals with the chosen characteristics are left on the screen. Additional questions are asked until the correct animal is chosen.
This PowerPoint can be used in many different ways:
*Teaching young children about zoo and wild animals
*Teaching young and older children about animal characteristics
*Teaching older children about dichotomous keys
Important Note: This interactive works when in SlideShow mode
Savannah Animals Interactive Identification Game: This is not your average PowerPoint! This PowerPoint is a live-working interactive dichotomous key! Each slide has code embedded within it that allows the students to answer yes or no questions about the animals of the Savannah.
The students are to pick an animal they like to begin the "game" or lesson. The students are then presented with questions about Savannah animals such as: can the animal fly? Does the animal have horns or antlers? Does the animal have a mane? etc.
After clicking the correct button, only the animals with the chosen characteristics are left on the screen. Additional questions are asked until the correct animal is chosen.
This PowerPoint can be used in many different ways:
*Teaching young children about the animals of the Savannah
*Teaching young and older children about animal characteristics
*Teaching older children about dichotomous keys
Important Note: This interactive works when in SlideShow mode
Volcanoes:
This PowerPoint on Volcanoes can be used for any Late Elementary (If modified), Middle, or Early High School science class/grade. The purpose of this PowerPoint is to summarize key facts and information about the different types of volcanoes and lava.
On average this presentation on Volcanoes should run approximately 45 to 2 hours of class time (depending on the amount of note-taking, discussions and questions) and is meant to either introduce or reinforce concepts.
The PowerPoint first introduces what Volcanoes are, the different types of eruptions, lava, pyroclastic flows, and the different types of volcanoes. There are 28 slides (excluding the title slide) on this PowerPoint which contain the following titles:
What is Inside a Volcano?
Types of Volcanic Eruptions (non-explosive)
Types of Volcanic Eruptions (explosive)
The Types of Magma is Important (Water and Magma)
The Types of Magma is Important (Silica and Magma) - 2 Slides
What Erupts from a Volcano?
Whats the Difference Between Magma & Lava?
Viscosity of Lava
Types of Lava
Aa
Pahoehoe
Pillow Lava
Blocky Lava
Types of Pyroclastic Material
Volcanic Blocks
Volcanic Bombs
Lapilli
Volcanic Ash
Types of Volcanoes
Shield Volcanoes
Cinder Cone Volcanoes
Composite Volcanoes
Other Volcanic Features
Craters
Calderas
Lava Plateaus
Volcanic Lightning
Element, Compound and Mixture Flash Cards & PowerPoint: These cards fold in half so that students can write their responses on the front, and the back has the reason why explained using a picture.
These can also be used just by holding them up to an entire class as well.
These flash cards are also formatted for a PowerPoint Presentation if you wish to use it for an entire class (see Preview). So, there are two different files attached to this product:
1. Flash cards of Element Compound or Mixture
2. Same thing except in PowerPoint format
Students often have trouble identifying substances as an element compound or mixture. These printable interactive flash cards should help. The following elements, compounds, and mixtures are included in these flashcards:
Oxygen
Carbon dioxide
Sugar water
Chocolate chip cookie
Iron
Iced Tea
Rust
Orange Juice
Granite
Water
Pure Gold
14-karat gold
Carbon
Air
Helium
Salad
Halloween: This Halloween and Space Science PowerPoint: Many Trick or Treat on Halloween, some even know the history; but few know the connection between the history of Halloween and the star cluster: The Pleiades.
This Halloween PowerPoint gives astronomical information about the star cluster and the greek mythologies surrounding the Pleiades, otherwise known as the Seven Sisters. It then describes the origin of Halloween with the role of the Pleiades.
Important: Open the PPT as Read-Only to view it with the Halloween Font
This Halloween PowerPoint contains 15 slides, with the following Titles:
♦ The Pleiades: Star Cluster
♦ The Pleiades: Taurus
♦ The Pleiades: Greek Mythology (2 slides)
♦ How to Find the Pleides in the Night Sky
♦ Which has a closer tie to Halloween: Full Moon or the Pleiades?
♦ Dates when the Full Moon will be Out During Halloween
♦ Dates when the Pleiades will be out During Halloween
♦ Pleiades in the October Sky
♦ Samhain - The End of the harvest
♦ Samhain - The Dead and the living
♦ Samhain - Ceremonies
♦ The Pleiades During Samhain (2 slides)
Verbs: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they improve their ability to identify adjectives within sentences.
This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify the verb within the sentence. A multiple Choice (MC) version and an open ended version is provided. An answer sheet and an answer key are also included.
This math maze is a great way for students to practice their skills with adding fractions with like denominators. Problems involve answers which need to be simplified or turned into a mixed number.
These task cards are a great way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of the different types of cellular transport.
This product contains 18 cards with multiple choice questions about cell transport. A recording sheet and an answer key are included. Blank cards are also included for questions to be added, if wanted. The same 18 cards are also available as open ended questions.
These task cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge with the similarities and differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
This product contains 18 cards which has students identify each description as either being a prokaryote or a eukaryote. A recording sheet and an answer key are included. Blank cards are also included for questions to be added, if wanted.
This final consonant blends word search on the -sk ending blend also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Ask
♦ Desk
♦ Disk
♦ Flask
♦ Husk
♦ Kiosk
♦ Mask
♦ Tusk
♦ Whisk
This final consonant blends word search on the -nk ending blend also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Bank
♦ Chipmunk
♦ Plank
♦ Sink
♦ Sunk
♦ Tank
♦ Think
♦ Trunk
♦ Yank
This word search on short O CVC words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Box
♦ Cob
♦ Cop
♦ Dog
♦ Fox
♦ Log
♦ Mop
♦ Rod
♦ Top
This crossword puzzle on the Texas Revolution is a fun vocabulary review for students and contains the following:
1. Blank Version without word bank
2. Blank Version with word bank
3. Answer Key
Vocabulary Words:
♦ Alamo
♦ Davy Crockett
♦ Goliad
♦ Gonzales
♦ James Bowie
♦ James Fannin
♦ Juan Seguin
♦ Sam Houston
♦ San Jacinto
♦ Santa Anna
♦ Stephen Austin
♦ Treaties of Velasco
♦ William Travis
This crossword puzzle on World War II is a fun vocabulary review for students and contains the following:
1. Blank Version without word bank
2. Blank Version with word bank
3. Answer Key
Vocabulary Words:
♦ Adolf Hitler
♦ Allies
♦ Atomic Bomb
♦ Axis Powers
♦ Blitzkrieg
♦ D Day
♦ Douglas MacArthur
♦ Dwight Eisenhower
♦ Franklin Roosevelt
♦ Harry Truman
♦ Hideki Tojo
♦ Joseph Stalin
♦ Kamikaze
♦ Pearl Harbor
♦ Winston Churchill
This crossword puzzle on Ancient Chinese Dynasties is a fun vocabulary review for students and contains the following:
1. Blank Version without word bank
2. Blank Version with word bank
3. Answer Key
Vocabulary Words:
♦ Five Dynasties
♦ Han
♦ Ming
♦ Qin
♦ Qing
♦ Shang
♦ Six Dynasties
♦ Song
♦ Sui
♦ Tang
♦ Xia
♦ Yuan
♦ Zhou
This Ancient history crossword puzzles bundle includes all of the products listed below:
Important: All these products sell for $11; as a bundle they are 25% off, for $8.25!
This product includes the following 11 topics:
♦ Ancient China
♦ Ancient Chinese Dynasties
♦ Ancient Egypt
♦ Ancient Greece
♦ Ancient Rome
♦ Ancient India
♦ Aztec Empire
♦ Inca Empire
♦ Maya Civilization
♦ Mesopotamia
♦ Vikings
This crossword puzzle on economics is a great vocabulary review for students and contains the following:
1. Blank Version without word bank
2. Blank Version with word bank
3. Answer Key
Vocabulary Words:
♦ Budget
♦ Capitalism
♦ Competition
♦ Consumer
♦ Credit
♦ Deficit
♦ Export
♦ Goods
♦ Import
♦ Income
♦ Interest
♦ Invest
♦ Producer
♦ Profit
♦ Revenue
♦ Services
♦ Taxes
These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of plate tectonics.
This product contains 8 cards with definitions and images for each term:
♦ Biological Weathering
♦ Chemical Weathering
♦ Erosion
♦ Freeze-Thaw
♦ Glacial Erosion
♦ Mechanical Weathering
♦ Weathering
♦ Wind Erosion