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
Biomes Lapbook: This Biomes lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each biome and write what they find on the provided blank lines. This lapbook also doubles as a
coloring book, as students may color in the picture of each biome. A completed biomes lapbook with answers is included.
Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page)
Biomes Lapbook Contents:
1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the biomes lapbook
2. Biomes included with completed facts:
Savannah, Grassland, Temperate forest, Taiga,
Tundra, Rainforest, Alpine, Desert
3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each biome
4. Check out the preview for more details
Thank you to The Lost Teacher and Educlips who provided the images
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Space Science:
♦ The Solar System: The Planets
♦ Eclipses
♦ Comets, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites and Asteroids
Earth Science:
♦ 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
Life Science:
♦ Biomes
♦ Life Cycle of Plants
♦ Human Body Systems
♦ Habitats
♦ Butterfly Life Cycle
♦ Frog Life Cycle
♦ Dinosaurs
♦ Animal Adaptations
♦ Six Kingdoms of Life
♦ Pumpkin Life Cycle
♦ Cell Structures
Physical Science:
♦ The Scientific Method
♦ Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures
♦ Forms of Energy
♦ Simple Machines
Ocean Animals: This ocean animals interactive identification game 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 marine 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 mammal? Is the animal a vertebrate? Is the animal soft bodied?
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 marine animals
*Teaching young and older children about animal characteristics
*Teaching older children about dichotomous keys
Important Note: This interactive works when in SlideShow mode
These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of plate tectonics.
This product contains 24 cards with definitions and images for each term:
♦ Alfred Wegener
♦ Asthenosphere
♦ Continental Drift
♦ Convection Current
♦ Convergent Boundary
♦ Crust
♦ Divergent Boundary
♦ Earthquake
♦ Epicenter
♦ Fault
♦ Hot Spot
♦ Inner Core
♦ Lithosphere
♦ Mantle
♦ Mid-Ocean Ridge
♦ Outer Core
♦ Pangaea
♦ Seismic Waves
♦ Seismograph
♦ Seismologist
♦ Subduction Zone
♦ Tectonic Plates
♦ Transform Boundary
♦ Volcano
These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of the different types of fossils.
This product contains 8 cards with definitions and images for each term:
♦ Fossils
♦ Body Fossils
♦ Trace Fossils
♦ Mold Fossils
♦ Cast Fossils
♦ Fossil Resin
♦ Fossil Record
♦ Paleontologist
This message decoder is a great way for students to practice their skills with missing angles, themed for Christmas. The solution to the puzzle is included.
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of DNA replication.
Important: Please view the Video Preview (found within the thumbnails above) for an explanation on how to decode the levels.
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
♦ Large Sized Cards and Smaller
♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
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
Moon Phases: These moon phases cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning the phases of the Moon. Folding Directions (with pictures) are Included.
Moon Phases Cootie Catchers Contents (5 Versions):
1. Identify the Moon Phase from the picture
2. Identify the Moon Phase from the picture (low ink version)
3. Students shade in the Moon Phase to Identify
4. Students Identify the Moon Phase from descriptions
5. Students identify the Moon Phase from descriptions (low ink version)
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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
This crossword puzzle on natural disasters 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:
♦ Blizzard
♦ Dust Storm
♦ Earthquake
♦ Flood
♦ Hurricane
♦ Landslide
♦ Natural Disaster
♦ Tornado
♦ Tsunami
♦ Tsunami
♦ Volcano
♦ Wildfire
This word search on the bones and structures of the skeletal system includes the following vocabulary terms. The solution to the puzzle is included.
♦ Ball and Socket
♦ Compact Bone
♦ Cranium
♦ Ligament
♦ Rib Cage
♦ Spine
♦ Spongy Bone
♦ Synovial Joint
♦ Tendon
This maze is a great way for students to practice their skills with converting radians to degrees and converting degrees to radians. The solution to the puzzle is included.
These task cards are a great way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of plant adaptations.
This product contains 24 cards with multiple choice questions about the different types of plant adaptations. A recording sheet and an answer key are included. Blank cards are also included for questions to be added, if wanted. The same 24 cards are also available as open ended questions.
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with telling time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, five minutes and minute.
Contents:
♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ
♦ 4 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, Tarsia Puzzle, Maze
♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key
♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge of force and motion. Full “Letter” sized cards as well as smaller sized cards are provided.
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
♦ Large Sized Cards and Smaller
♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
This maze is a great way for students to practice their skills with 3 digit by 1 digit division, which includes remainders. The solution to the puzzle is included.
This tarsia puzzle is a great way for students to review their skills with 3 Digit by 1 Digit division without remainders. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Number Patterns: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their math and number skills. An answer key is provided.
Students must identify the rule and the next number in a numbered series pattern. Problems involve addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
Do a search for my other Math Task Cards:
♦ Ages 6-9:
Addition
Arrays
Balancing Equations
Coins
Estimating Sums
Expanded Form
Fact Families
Greater Than Less Than
Long Division
Missing Addends
Multiplication Word Problems
Number Bonds Word Problems
Skip Counting
Subtraction
Telling Time
♦ Ages 9-11:
Balancing Equations
Capacity
Comparing Decimals
Decimals
Elapsed Time
Expanded Form
Exponents
Fact Families
Factors & Multiples
Fractions
Fractions on a Number Line
Greater Than Less Than
Greatest Common Factors
Least Common Multiple
Long Division
Mean, Median, Mode, & Range
Metric Measurement
Mixed Numbers
Multiplication
Number Patterns
Order of Operations
Percents
Place Value
Prime & Composite Numbers
Prime Factorization
Probability
Properties of Mult.
Rounding
Word Problems
♦ Ages 11-14:
Customary Measurements
Fractions: Add & Sub, Decimals, & Percents
Fractions: Equivalent & Reducing Fractions
Greater Than Less Than
Improper Fractions & Mixed Numbers
Integers
Operations with Fractions
Rational Numbers
Ratios
Simple Interest
♦ Geometry:
3D Shapes
Angle Pair Relationships
Area of a Circle & Composite Figures
Circumference of a Circle
Missing Angles
Perimeter
Polygons
Pythagorean Theorem
Quadrilaterals
Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms
Volume & Surface Area of Cylinders
Volume of Cones, Rectangular Prisms, & Triangular Prisms
Insects: This insects interactive identification game 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 insects.
The students are to pick an insect they like to begin the "game" or lesson. The students are then presented with questions about insects such as: does the insect have wings? Does the insect have pincers? is the insect fuzzy? etc.
After clicking the correct button, only the insects with the chosen characteristics are left on the screen. Additional questions are asked until the correct insect is chosen.
This PowerPoint can be used in many different ways:
*Teaching young children about insects
*Teaching young and older children about insect characteristics
*Teaching older children about dichotomous keys
Important Note: This insects interactive works when in SlideShow mode