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
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge of independent variables, dependent variables, constants, and control groups the electromagnetic spectrum. Full “Letter” sized cards as well as smaller sized cards are provided.
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
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to review their knowledge of lab safety. Full “Letter” sized cards as well as smaller sized cards are provided.
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
These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of elements, compounds and mixtures.
This product contains 12 cards with definitions and images for each term:
♦ Atom
♦ Chemical Bond
♦ Compound
♦ Element
♦ Emulsion
♦ Heterogeneous Mixture
♦ Homogeneous Mixture
♦ Matter
♦ Mixture
♦ Solute
♦ Solution
♦ Solvent
This crossword puzzle on forms of energy 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:
♦ Chemical Energy
♦ Conduction
♦ Convection
♦ Elastic Energy
♦ Electrical Energy
♦ Energy
♦ Friction
♦ Heat
♦ Kinetic Energy
♦ Nuclear Energy
♦ Potential Energy
♦ Radiation
♦ Sound Energy
♦ Temperature
♦ Thermal Energy
This word search on the structures of the heart includes the following vocabulary terms. The solution to the puzzle is included.
♦ Aorta
♦ Inferior Vena Cava
♦ Left Atrium
♦ Left Ventricle
♦ Pulmonary Artery
♦ Pulmonary Veins
♦ Right Atrium
♦ Right Ventricle
♦ Superior Vena Cava
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge of the states of matter. 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
These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of the different types of world biomes. These can also be used as coloring cards!
This product contains 9 cards with definitions and images for each term:
♦ Alpine
♦ Biome
♦ Desert
♦ Grassland
♦ Rainforest
♦ Savanna
♦ Taiga
♦ Temperate Forest
♦ Tundra
This crossword puzzle on force and motion 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:
♦ Acceleration
♦ Energy
♦ Force
♦ Friction
♦ Gravity
♦ Inertia
♦ Kinetic Energy
♦ Mass
♦ Motion
♦ Potential Energy
♦ Rolling Friction
♦ Sliding Friction
♦ Speed
♦ Static Friction
♦ Velocity
♦ Weight
This word search on the life cycle of stars also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Terms for Small/ Medium Size Stars:
♦ Nebula
♦ Sun-Like Star
♦ Red Giant
♦ White Dwarf
♦ Black Dwarf
Terms for Massive Sized Stars:
♦ Nebula
♦ Massive Star
♦ Red Supergiant
♦ Supernova
♦ Neutron Star
♦ Black Hole
This word search on the electromagnetic spectrum includes the following vocabulary terms. The solution to the puzzle is included.
♦ Electromagnetic Spectrum
♦ Electromagnetic Wave
♦ Gamma Rays
♦ Infrared Light
♦ Microwave
♦ Radio Wave
♦ Ultraviolet Light
♦ Visible Light
♦ X-Ray
These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their vocabulary knowledge of the water cycle.
This product contains 12 cards with definitions and images for each term:
♦ Cloud
♦ Condensation
♦ Dew
♦ Evaporation
♦ Frost
♦ Groundwater
♦ Percolation
♦ Precipitation
♦ Runoff
♦ Transpiration
♦ Water
♦ Water Cycle
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 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 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
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 word search on tectonic plates also doubles as a coloring book!. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Convection
♦ Convergent
♦ Divergent
♦ Earth Layers
♦ Earthquake
♦ Fault
♦ Hot Spot
♦ Ocean Ridge
♦ Pangaea
♦ Seismologist
♦ Tectonic Plates
♦ Transform
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge of the periodic table of the elements. 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
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
Constellations, Stars, Galaxies & Nebula PowerPoint: Stop getting lost looking for stars & constellations! This lesson not only teaches about the stars & constellations, but how to find them too!
This PowerPoint on Locating Constellations, Stars, Galaxies and Nebula can be used for any Elementary, Middle, or High School science class/grade. The purpose of this PowerPoint is introduce students to many constellations, galaxies, and nebulae, and to show them how to find them in the sky, and give them information about them as well as their history and mythology.
On average this presentation should run approximately 3-5 days (45 minutes of class time per day) depending on the amount of note-taking and explanations and is meant to either introduce or reinforce concepts.
Important Note: The length of this PowerPoint can be short or long depending on which slides are being used. This PowerPoint covers most of the main constellations, stars, galaxies, and nebulae, so there should be something for whichever topic is being discussed.
Includes 98 Slides
Mythology: This mythology Power Point is a fun and interesting way for students to learn about the Greek and Roman myths surrounding the nine planets in this 34 slide PowerPoint story!
Greek and Roman myths surrounding the Planets are included because the Romans based many of their deities from the Greek gods and goddesses.
This download also contains playing cards of the 9 planets which contain:
♦ Picture of the Planet
♦ Picture of the God/ Goddess
♦ Roman Name
♦ Greek Name
♦ Type of God
♦ Story Behind the Name
There are 4 sets of the same playing cards:
♦ Color Trading Cards with Information Typed In
♦ Gray Scale Trading Cards with Information Typed in
♦ Blank Color Trading Cards for students to fill in
♦ Blank Gray Scale Trading Cards for students to fill in
There are 34 slides in this powerpoint with the following titles:
♦ Title Slide
♦ Mercury Title Slide
♦ Apollo & Hermes: Greek Mythology
♦ Hermes: Greek Mythology
♦ Mercury: Roman Mythology
♦ How Mercury Got Its Name
♦ Venus Title Slide
♦ Aphrodite: Greek Mythology
♦ Birth of Venus: Clam Shell Version
♦ Venus: Roman Mythology
♦ How Venus Got Its Name
♦ Earth Title Slide
♦ Gaia and Chaos
♦ Gaia and the Elemental Gods
♦ Gaia and the 12 Titans
♦ The 12 Olympians
♦ How Earth Got Its Name
♦ Mars Title Slide
♦ Ares: Greek Mythology
♦ Mars: Roman Mythology
♦ How Mars Got Its Name
♦ Jupiter Title Slide
♦ Romulus & Remus (2 slides)
♦ Mars: Roman Mythology
♦ Zeus: Greek Mythology
♦ Jupiter: Roman Mythology
♦ How Jupiter Got Its Name
♦ Saturn Title Slide
♦ Cronus:Greek Mythology
♦ The Castration of uranus by Cronus
♦ The Great Fear of Cronus
♦ The Return of the Titans
♦ The Great Battle of Titanomachy
♦ The Ambush
♦ The Fall of Cronus
♦ Saturn: Roman Mythology
♦ How Saturn Got Its Name
♦ Uranus Title Slide
♦ Uranus: Greek Mythology
♦ The Naming of Uranus
♦ Neptune Title Slide
♦ Poseidon: Greek Mythology (2 slides)
♦ Neptune: Roman Mythology
♦ The Naming of Neptune
♦ Pluto Title Slide
♦ Pluto: Mythology
♦ The Naming of Pluto