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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

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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
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Theme: These theme cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while finding the theme of a story. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity has students reading 8 short passages to each other and then asked to identify the theme out of two possible choices. There is also a version where students may come up with their own judgement as to what the theme is. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ Reading Strategies: Authors Purpose Cause and Effect Character Traits Compare and Contrast with Pictures Compare and Contrast Creative and Critical Thinking Drawing Conclusions Fact or Opinion Figurative Language Fluency Generalizations Genre Identification Genre Types Idioms Inference Literary Devices Main Idea Metaphors Nonfiction Text Features Paraphrasing Parts of a Book Personification Point of View Predictions Reading Comprehension Reading Response Questions Restating the Question Sequencing Setting Similes Story Elements Summarizing Text Structures Text Structures: Informational Text Structures Theme Writing Prompts ♦ Vocabulary: Analogies (Grades 3-5) Analogies (Grades 6-8) Analogies (Grade 9) Antonyms Compound Words Context Clues Greek and Latin Roots Homophones Homonyms Multiple Meaning Words Prefixes Root Words Shades of Meaning Spelling Suffixes Synonyms Tone and Mood Transition Words ♦ Grammar: Adjective Identification Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative Adverbs Appositives Apostrophes Capitalization Clauses Commas Conjunctions Contractions Mentor Sentences Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural Nouns: Collective Nouns: Common and Proper Nouns: Irregular Plural Nouns: Plural Nouns Nouns: Possessive Nouns Parts of Speech Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Pronouns: Identification Pronouns: Possessive Pronoun Antecedent Agreement Quotation Marks Sentence Types Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound Verb Identification Verb Tenses Verbs: Helping Verbs: Irregular Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement
Women's History Lapbook
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Women's History Lapbook

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Women's History Month Lapbook: This women's history lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research or show what they have learned by writing facts about each Famous Woman Historical Figure in history. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) Women's history lapbook contents: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Completed facts for each term: Harriet Tubman, Amelia Earhart, Joan of Arc Mother Teresa, Sally Ride, Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each term 4. Check out the preview for more details
Rainforest Word Search/ Coloring Book
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Rainforest Word Search/ Coloring Book

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Rainforest: This rainforest animals word search also doubles as a coloring book!. The solution to the puzzle is included. Rainforest Animals Included: ♦ Anaconda ♦ Butterfly ♦ Caterpillar ♦ Chameleon ♦ Crocodile ♦ Dragonfly ♦ Frog ♦ Macaw ♦ Monkey ♦ Piranha ♦ Sloth ♦ Toucan
Volcanoes
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Volcanoes Cootie Catchers/ Fortune Tellers: These cootie catchers on volcanoes are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different types of volcanoes and their subsequent features. These cootie catchers contain the following vocabulary terms about volcanoes: ♦ Volcano, Shield volcano, Cinder cone volcano, Composite volcano, Vent, Hot spot, Magma chamber, Caldera And ♦ Lava, Magma, Aa, Pahoehoe, Pillow lava, Pyroclastic flow, Volcanic block, Volcanic ash ***** Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers in the folllowing topics: ***** Space Science: ♦ Comets, Meteors, & Asteroids ♦ Constellations ♦ Eclipses ♦ Life Cycles of Stars ♦ Moon Phases ♦ Planets ♦ Solar System and Space ♦ Clouds ♦ Earthquakes & Plate Tectonics ♦ Erosion ♦ Fossils ♦ Layers of the Atmosphere ♦ Layers of the Earth ♦ Landforms ♦ Natural Disasters ♦ Natural Resources ♦ Rock Cycle ♦ Rocks and Minerals ♦ Seasons ♦ Soil ♦ Volcanoes ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Weather Life Science: ♦ Animal Adaptations ♦ Biomes ♦ Cell Organelles ♦ Classification and Taxonomy ♦ Ecosystems ♦ Evolution ♦ Food Web ♦ Habitats ♦ Human Body ♦ Life Cycles ♦ Photosynthesis ♦ Plants ♦ Six Kingdoms of Life Physical Science: ♦ Atomic Structure ♦ Circuits ♦ Element Compound and Mixture ♦ Force and Motion ♦ Forms of Energy ♦ Light Energy ♦ Magnets ♦ Reflection and Refraction ♦ Scientific Method ♦ Simple Machines ♦ Sound Energy ♦ States of Matter ♦ Thermal Energy ♦ Waves
Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions Game: Escape Room Math Activity
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Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions Game: Escape Room Math Activity

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with adding and subtracting rational expressions. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 3 Levels to decode: Maze, Tarsia Puzzle, and a Message Decoder ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Segment Addition and Angle Addition Postulates: Geometry Escape Room - Math
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Segment Addition and Angle Addition Postulates: Geometry Escape Room - Math

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with segment addition postulates and angle addition postulates. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 3 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, and a Maze ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Specific Heat: Chemistry Maze
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Specific Heat: Chemistry Maze

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This maze is a great way for students to practice their skills with problems involving specific heat. Units of specific heat alternate between J/g°C and cal/g°C.
Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal: Escape Room - Social Studies
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Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal: Escape Room - Social Studies

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge with the major historical figures and events involving the Watergate scandal. Note: this product includes the involvement of “Deep throat” within the scandal. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions with Usage Guide and FAQ ♦ 20 Multiple Choice Questions ♦ 5 Decoders for each of the 5 Levels ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Modern/ Contemporary American History Escape Room: Social Studies Bundle
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Modern/ Contemporary American History Escape Room: Social Studies Bundle

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This bundle includes all of the escape rooms listed below. Important: All these products sell for $35; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $22! Each escape room has the following contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions with Usage Guide and FAQ ♦ 20 Multiple Choice Questions ♦ 5 Decoders for each of the 5 Levels ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Quadrilaterals
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Quadrilaterals

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Quadrilaterals: These quadrilaterals cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different types of quadrilaterals. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. These cootie catchers contain the following quadrilaterals: Trapezium, Trapezoid, Isosceles Trapezoid, Parallelogram, Kite, Rhombus, Rectangle, Square A version is also included in which students may add their own definitions for each quadrilateral
Weather Fronts Accordion Booklet
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Weather Fronts Accordion Booklet

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This is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research or show what they have learned by writing different facts on the provided blank lines about each type of weather front. A completed booklet with answers is included. This Weather Fronts Booklet contains the following: 1. Assembly Instructions for the booklet 2. Completed facts for each of the following types of fronts: Cold Front, Warm Front, Occluded Front, Stationary Front 3. Blank versions with lines for students to write their own facts for each front type 4. Black and white versions of everything above 5. A smaller version of #1, 2, 3, & 4 to fit smaller pieces of construction paper
History
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This is a bundle of all my American History Accordion Booklets AND Lapbooks for interactive notebooks. Assembly instructions (with pictures) are Included. Important: All these Booklets sell for $250; as a bundle they are 60% off, for $99! There are 38 different topics, each topic includes the accordion booklet format and the lapbook format which totals 76 total products! * 13 Colonies: Booklet , Lapbook * American Heroes: Booklet , Lapbook * American Revolution: Booklet , Lapbook * American Symbols: Booklet, Lapbook * Bill of Rights: Booklet, Lapbook * Black History Month: Booklet, Lapbook * Boston Tea Party: Booklet, Lapbook * Branches of Government: Booklet, Lapbook * Christopher Columbus: Booklet, Lapbook * Civil Rights: Booklet, Lapbook * Civil War: Booklet, Lapbook * Cold War Booklet, Lapbook * Constitution: Booklet * Declaration of Independence: Booklet, Lapbook * French and Indian War: Booklet, Lapbook * Gilded Age: Booklet, Lapbook * Great Depression: Booklet, Lapbook * Immigration: Booklet, Lapbook * Inventors: Booklet, Lapbook * Jamestown: Booklet, Lapbook * Lewis and Clark: Booklet, Lapbook * Lost Colony of Roanoke: Booklet, Lapbook * Louisiana Purchase: Booklet, Lapbook * Loyalists or Patriots: Booklet, Lapbook * Martin Luther King: Booklet, Lapbook * Native Americans: Booklet, Lapbook * Pilgrims: Booklet, Lapbook * Progressive Era: Booklet, Lapbook * Reconstruction: Booklet, Lapbook * Spanish American WarBooklet, Lapbook * Texas Revolution: Booklet, Lapbook * Underground Railroad: Booklet, Lapbook * War of 1812: Booklet, Lapbook * Westward Expansion: Booklet, Lapbook * World War I: Booklet, Lapbook * World War II: Booklet, Lapbook
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Science: This is a bundle of all my earth science Accordion Booklets AND Lapbooks for interactive notebooks. Assembly instructions (with pictures) are Included. Important: All these booklets sell for $80; as a bundle they are 50% off, for $39.95! 1. This product contains the following 12 accordion notebooks: * Clouds * Severe Weather * Layers of the Atmosphere * Volcanoes * Fossils * Plate Tectonics * Natural Resources * Layers of the Earth * Rock Cycle * Water Cycle * Rocks and Minerals * Landforms 2. This product ALSO contains the following 12 Lapbooks: * Clouds * Severe Weather * Layers of the Atmosphere * Volcanoes * Fossils * Plate Tectonics * Natural Resources * Layers of the Earth * Rock Cycle * Water Cycle * Rocks and Minerals * Landforms
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This reading strategies bundle includes all of the products listed below. Playing directions and folding Directions (with pictures) are Included. Important: All these Cootie Catchers sell for $70; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $45! Reading Strategies Cootie Catchers Bundle Contents (36 Products): * Authors Purpose * Cause and Effect * Character Traits * Compare and Contrast with Pictures * Compare and Contrast * Creative and Critical Thinking * Drawing Conclusions * Fact or Opinion * Figurative Language * Fluency * Generalizations * Genre Identification * Genre Types * Idioms * Inference * Literary Devices * Main Idea * Metaphors * Nonfiction Text Features * Paraphrasing * Parts of a Book * Personification * Point of View * Predictions * Reading Comprehension * Reading Response Questions * Restating the Question * Sequencing * Setting * Similes * Story Elements * Summarizing * Text Structures * Text Structures: Informational Text Structures * Theme * Writing Prompts
Vocabulary
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This vocabulary bundle includes all of the products listed below. Playing directions and folding Directions (with pictures) are Included. Important: All these Cootie Catchers sell for $35; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $22! Vocabulary Cootie Catchers Bundle Contents (18 Products): * Analogies (Grades 3-5) * Analogies (Grades 6-8) * Analogies (Grade 9) * Antonyms * Compound Words * Context Clues * Greek and Latin Roots * Homophones * Homonyms * Multiple Meaning Words * Prefixes * Root Words * Shades of Meaning * Spelling * Suffixes * Synonyms * Tone and Mood * Transition Words
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This is a bundle of all my Ancient History Accordion Booklets AND Lapbooks for interactive notebooks. Assembly instructions (with pictures) are Included. Important: All these Booklets sell for $60; as a bundle they are 50% off, for $29.95! There are 11 different topics, 10 in lapbook format and 11 in Accordion Booklet format, which totals 21 total products! * China: Booklet, Lapbook * Chinese Dynasties: Booklet * Egypt: Booklet, Lapbook * Greece: Booklet, Lapbook * India: Booklet, Lapbook * Rome: Booklet, , Lapbook * Incas: Booklet, , Lapbook * Aztecs: Booklet, Lapbook * Maya: Booklet, Lapbook * Mesopotamia: Booklet, Lapbook * Vikings: Booklet, Lapbook
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This is a bundle of all my World History Accordion Booklets AND Lapbooks for interactive notebooks. Assembly instructions (with pictures) are Included. Important: All these Booklets sell for $60; as a bundle they are 50% off, for $29.95! There are 11 different topics, each topic includes the accordion booklet format and the lapbook format which totals 22 total products! * Absolute Monarchs: Booklet, Lapbook * Crusades: Booklet, Lapbook * European Explorers: Booklet, Lapbook * Famous Explorers: Booklet, Lapbook * French Revolution: Booklet, Lapbook * Holocaust: Booklet, Lapbook * Middle Ages, Booklet, Lapbook * Renaissance: Booklet, Lapbook * Titanic: Booklet, Lapbook * World War I: Booklet, Lapbook * World War II: Booklet, Lapbook
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This is a bundle of all my World History Cootie Catchers/ Fortune Tellers. Playing directions and folding Directions (with pictures) are Included. Important: All these Cootie Catchers sell for $28; as a bundle they are 25% off, for $19.95! There are 11 different topics, each one having multiple versions in color and black and white: * Absolute Monarchs * European Explorers * Famous Explorers * French Revolution * Holocaust * Middle Ages * Renaissance * Crusades * Titanic * World War I * World War II
Geography
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This is a bundle of all my Geography Cootie Catchers/ Fortune Tellers. Playing directions and folding Directions (with pictures) are Included. Important: All these Cootie Catchers sell for $42; as a bundle they are 30% off, for $29! There are 24 different topics as outlined below: * Continents * Map Skills * Types of Maps * Oceans * Africa: Central and South * Africa: East * Africa: North * Africa West * Asia: East * Asia: South * Asia: Southeast * Asia: West * Central America * Europe: East * South America * States and Capitals: Midwest * States and Capitals: Northeast * States and Capitals: South and Southwest * States and Capitals: West * U.S. Regions: Midwest * U.S. Regions: Northeast * U.S. Regions: South and Southwest * U.S. Regions West