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
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
Commas: These comma cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning how to properly use commas to punctuate sentences. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students identifying the correct position for a comma within a sentence, and comes in two versions:
1. Students identify comma placement through multiple choice questions
2. Students identify comma placement without the use of any aids.
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♦ 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
Verb Tenses: These verb tenses cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while improving their ability to identify verbs and their tense within sentences. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 16 in total, and then asked to identify the verb and its tense (past, present, or future).
Half of the questions come with multiple choice and the other half does not.
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♦ 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
Measurement Tools: This measurement tools word search also doubles as a coloring book!. The advantage to this is that students can actually see the concept behind the term they are attempting to find. The Solution to the puzzle is included.
Measurement Tools Vocabulary Terms:
♦ Balance
♦ Caliper
♦ Clock
♦ Compass
♦ Cup
♦ Graduated Cylinder
♦ Protractor
♦ Right Angle
♦ Ruler
♦ Scale
♦ Spring Scale
♦ Stop Watch
♦ T-Square
♦ Tape Measure
♦ Test Tube
♦ Thermometer
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Clouds: This cloud in a bottle lab experiment is a fun hands on activity where students will create an actual cloud.
This product includes the following:
1. Student page with objectives, introduction, procedure, observations, materials, and post-lab questions.
2. Answer Key to the above page
Constellations of the Zodiac Wheel Dial: The reason your sign is your sign is because on your birthday the Sun should rise in your constellation. This was true 2,000 years ago, but not anymore. Because the Earth has wobbled, the Sun now rises in the previous constellation.
This constellations wheel dial depicts the Earth revolving around the Sun at each month of the year. Depending where the Earth is, it shows which constellation will be in the sky (2,000 years ago, as astrologers have kept the same date ranges).
Scientific Method: This scientific method fold and learn is a great way for students to learn and organize each step while following and conducting an actual science experiment which follows the scientific method.
Scientific Method Fold and Learn Contents: 6 pages:
1. Fold and learn in color
2. Fold and learn in black and white
3. Blank version for students to explain each stage OR use with an actual experiment (example experiment included)
4. Along with an experiment, students describe each stage
5. Answers for an example experiment: How does salt affect the boiling point of water.
This igh and ie words word search also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Dries
♦ Fight
♦ Fright
♦ Knight
♦ Light
♦ Night
♦ Pie
♦ Sigh
♦ Tie
This crossword puzzle on DNA 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:
♦ Adenine
♦ Chromosome
♦ Cytosine
♦ Deoxyribose
♦ DNA
♦ Gene
♦ Guanine
♦ Hydrogen Bonds
♦ Mutation
♦ Nucleotide
♦ Thymine
♦ Uracil
This crossword puzzle on macromolecules 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:
♦ Carbohydrates
♦ Disaccharide
♦ DNA
♦ Lipids
♦ Monosaccharide
♦ Nucleic Acids
♦ Nucleotides
♦ Polysaccharide
♦ Proteins
♦ RNA
This crossword puzzle on eclipses 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:
♦ Corona
♦ Partial Lunar Eclipse
♦ Partial Solar Eclipse
♦ Penumbra
♦ Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
♦ Total Lunar Eclipse
♦ Total Solar Eclipse
♦ Umbra
This crossword puzzle on the Urinary system 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:
♦ Bladder
♦ Kidneys
♦ Nephron
♦ Renal Artery
♦ Renal Vein
♦ Sphincter
♦ Urea
♦ Ureters
♦ Urethra
♦ Urine
This crossword puzzle on the 13 colonies is a fun review for students and contains the following:
1. Blank Version without word bank
2. Blank Version with word bank
3. Answer Key
This crossword puzzle on the Civil War 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:
♦ Abraham Lincoln
♦ Antietam
♦ Appomattox Court House
♦ Bull Run
♦ Emancipation Proclamation
♦ Fort Sumter
♦ Frederick Douglass
♦ Gettysburg
♦ Harriet Tubman
♦ Jefferson Davis
♦ Robert E Lee
♦ Sojourner Truth
♦ Ulysses S Grant
This crossword puzzle on the Constitution 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:
♦ Bill of Rights
♦ Census
♦ Congress
♦ Electoral College
♦ Executive
♦ George Washington
♦ Judicial
♦ Legislative
♦ Preamble
♦ President
♦ Speaker of the House
This crossword puzzle on the Great Depression 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:
♦ Black Thursday
♦ Black Tuesday
♦ CCC
♦ FDIC
♦ Franklin Roosevelt
♦ Great Depression
♦ Herbert Hoover
♦ Hoovervilles
♦ New Deal
♦ Stock Market
This word search on classification and taxonomy includes the following vocabulary terms. The solution to the puzzle is included.
♦ American black bear
♦ Animalia
♦ Carnivora
♦ Chordata
♦ Class
♦ Domain
♦ Eukarya
♦ Family
♦ Genus
♦ Kingdom
♦ Mammalia
♦ Order
♦ Phylum
♦ Species
♦ Ursidae
♦ Ursus
♦ Ursus americanus
This word search on the French Revolution is a great way for students to review vocabulary terms. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Terms Included:
♦ Bastille
♦ Estates General
♦ France
♦ Guillotine
♦ Louis XVI
♦ Marie Antoinette
♦ Maximilien Robespierre
♦ Napoleon Bonaparte
♦ Reign of Terror
This word search on the Middle Ages is a great way for students to review vocabulary terms. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Terms Included:
♦ Accolade
♦ Black Death
♦ Charlemagne
♦ Crusades
♦ Feudalism
♦ Guild
♦ Knight
♦ Magna Carta
♦ Minstrel
♦ Peasants
♦ Serf
♦ Squire
This bird types word search also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Chicken
♦ Duck
♦ Eagle
♦ Flamingo
♦ Ostrich
♦ Owl
♦ Parrot
♦ Peacock
♦ Penguin
♦ Toucan
♦ Turkey
♦ Vulture