I am a science teacher passionate about teaching Earth Science, Geology, Geography and Oceanography and sharing my science material/products to a wider audience.
My main focus is middle and high school, but since ability levels and needs vary widely, materials found in my shop may be useful to students from other grade levels.
I am also selling my educational resources on TpT website but under a different name, so in case you see the same resources there, it doesn't mean that they were copied.
I am a science teacher passionate about teaching Earth Science, Geology, Geography and Oceanography and sharing my science material/products to a wider audience.
My main focus is middle and high school, but since ability levels and needs vary widely, materials found in my shop may be useful to students from other grade levels.
I am also selling my educational resources on TpT website but under a different name, so in case you see the same resources there, it doesn't mean that they were copied.
This video worksheet allows students to follow along the Bill Nye video COMETS AND METEORS (Season 5, Episode 15).
Each video worksheet includes a combination of fill-in-the blank, true/false, and/or short answer questions. Students fill in the video worksheet while watching Bill Nye the Science Guy. Watching a video is no longer a passive activity!! Students are engaged during the video as they must listen and write at the same time.
This video worksheet has 23 questions. The video questions are relatively easy to answer while watching the video and are not so complicated that they require a great deal of writing. An answer key is included with this TES product.
The video worksheet is printable, and NO prep is required. I have also included a QR code link to the video. This means that students can do the worksheet on their own even if they are absent. The video worksheet is perfect for sub plans.
Visit my TES shop for more Bill Nye the Science Guy video worksheets and/or other movie guides.
Happy Teaching!
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - METEOROLOGY
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Meteorology related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Clouds; Occluded front; Hurricane; Air pressure; Stationary front; Climate; Weather; Dew point; Cold front; Tornado; Barometer; Warm front; Air mass; Relative humidity; Convection currents; Thermometer; Wind; Isobar.
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - OCEANOGRAPHY
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Oceanography related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Guyot; Tsunami; Abyssal plain; Mid-ocean ridge; Bathymetric map; Tides; Continental shelf; Continental rise; Continental slope; Continental margin; Thermocline; Upwelling; Gyres; Wave height; Wavelength; Seamount; Trenches; Salinity
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - THE MOON
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Moon related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Full moon; Gibbous; Lunar phases; Umbra; Moons; 1st quarter; Waxing; New moon; Lunar eclipse; Crescent; Penumbra; Giant impact hypothesis; 3rd quarter; Waning; Apollo 11; Solar eclipse; Tide; Neil Amstrong.
FREE Bathroom Passes
If you are (extremely) tired of letting students go to the bathroom every time they are bored or “need” to check their phones, bathroom (restroom) passes may be the way to go about it.
You can decide how many passes to give your students a quarter for them to use when necessary (I suggest 3-5). If they use less than the number given, you can potentially allow them to turn them in by the end of the quarter for extra credit.
You may want print the restroom passes on different colored paper for each quarter and keep a jar or folder of used passes just in case someone comes back later and wants to say they didn’t use theirs.
In case you want to be more organized, you can use the attached chart/table to keep track on how many passes each students have used at any given time.
I hope these passes will reduce the frequency of your students bathroom visits. Please leave a feedback if you have ideas on how to improve the use of the passes… :-)
Tarsia Puzzle: AUSTRALASIA - OCEANIA AND FLAGS
In this activity, students will practice matching the names of countries in Australasia and Oceania with their flags, as they piece together the pieces of each tarsia puzzle. Students will match their answers with a separate puzzle piece until all the countries have ‘found’ their flag and the puzzle is completed.
These GEOGRAPHY TARSIA PUZZLES are a FUN way for students to practice their multiplication facts that doesn’t involve a worksheet. The puzzle activity works well for individuals, as well as small groups. Alternatively, you can set up stations around the room, and have students or groups rotate to each station for a new math puzzle/game.
This resource includes:
1 tarsia puzzle with 15 countries
1 answer key
Teacher directions
List of Countries Included:
Australia, Cook Islands (NZ), Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
Suggestions for using this resource:
Print multiple copies of each tarsia puzzle and place the pieces in separate plastic bags for safekeeping.
Print the puzzles on colored paper if you find the black and white version too “dull”.
Print the puzzles on large sized paper, if you want the pieces to be extra large.
Laminate the puzzle pieces BEFORE your students cut them out. It will allow you to use them for years to come.
Code the backside of each puzzle piece, so it is easier to find which plastic bag they belong to in case they get mixed up with other pieces.
If you like this Tarsia Triangle Puzzle, you might be interested in some of my other editable templates that you can use for any topic:
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Triangles)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Squares)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Large Hexagon)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Decagon)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Snake)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Parallelogram)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Square w. Triangles)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Elongated HexagonSmall)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Elongated HexagonLarge)
Be sure to follow my TES shop and don’t forget to leave feedback if you liked my product!
Happy Teaching!
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - FRESHWATER
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Freshwater (incl. *Weathering; Erosion and Water Cycle) related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
Students can be working by themselves or in pairs/groups depending on the grade level and/or how difficult the vocab terms are.
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Acid Rain; Water Table; Topsoil; Cut bank; Delta; Water shed; Tributary; Abrasion; Transpiration; Nonpoint Source Pollution; Humus; Mechanical Weathering; Chemical Weathering; Permeability; Groundwater; Erosion; Deposition; Porosity.
WHO ARE YOU? Back to School Questionnaire
This is a short and easy back to school questionnaire you can give to your students as a way for you to get know them at the beginning of a new school year.
Students will be encouraged to share different aspects of their lives with you and you may learn some few things about each of your students which you can use to build relationships with them later on.
This version is geared towards middle school or high school students, but feel free to amend the questions to fit your student cohort.
Happy Teaching!
Tarsia Puzzle: AUSTRALASIA - OCEANIA AND CAPITALS
In this activity, students will practice matching the names of countries in Australasia and Oceania with their capitals, as they piece together the pieces of each tarsia puzzle. Students will match their answers with a separate puzzle piece until all the countries have ‘found’ their capital and the puzzle is completed.
These GEOGRAPHY TARSIA PUZZLES are a FUN way for students to practice their multiplication facts that doesn’t involve a worksheet. The puzzle activity works well for individuals, as well as small groups. Alternatively, you can set up stations around the room, and have students or groups rotate to each station for a new math puzzle/game.
This resource includes:
1 tarsia puzzle with 15 countries
1 answer key
Teacher directions
List of Countries Included:
Australia, Cook Islands (NZ), Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
Suggestions for using this resource:
Print multiple copies of each tarsia puzzle and place the pieces in separate plastic bags for safekeeping.
Print the puzzles on colored paper if you find the black and white version too “dull”.
Print the puzzles on large sized paper, if you want the pieces to be extra large.
Laminate the puzzle pieces BEFORE your students cut them out. It will allow you to use them for years to come.
Code the backside of each puzzle piece, so it is easier to find which plastic bag they belong to in case they get mixed up with other pieces.
If you like this Tarsia Triangle Puzzle, you might be interested in some of my other editable templates that you can use for any topic:
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Triangles)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Squares)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Large Hexagon)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Decagon)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Snake)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Parallelogram)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Square w. Triangles)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Elongated HexagonSmall)
Tarsia Puzzle Template (Elongated HexagonLarge)
Be sure to follow my TES shop and don’t forget to leave feedback if you liked my product!
Happy Teaching!
This video worksheet allows students to follow along Bill Nye’s video about HUMAN TRANSPORTATION (Season 3, Episode 16).
Each video worksheet includes a combination of fill-in-the blank, true/false, and/or short answer questions. Students fill in the video worksheet while watching Bill Nye the Science Guy. Watching a video is no longer a passive activity!! Students are engaged during the video as they must listen and write at the same time.
This video worksheet has 15 questions. The video questions are relatively easy to answer while watching the video and are not so complicated that they require a great deal of writing. An answer key is included with this TES product.
The video worksheet is printable, and NO prep is required. I have also included a QR code link to the video. This means that students can do the worksheet on their own even if they are absent. The video worksheet is perfect for sub plans.
Visit my TES shop for more Bill Nye video worksheets and/or other movie guides.
Happy Teaching!