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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
Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Word Search Mini-Bundle
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Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Word Search Mini-Bundle

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These word searches are great way for students to review vocabulary while being able to obverse each term. The solution to each puzzle is included. These lessons sell individually for $3; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $2.4! Included Products: ♦ Photosynthesis Vocabulary: ATP, Calvin Cycle, Carbon Dioxide, Chlorophyll, Chloroplast, Glucose, Stoma, Thylakoid, Transpiration ♦ Cellular Respiration Vocabulary: ATP, Carbon Dioxide, Cell, Cytosol, Electron Transport Chain, Fermentation, Glucose, Glycolysis, Krebs Cycle, Mitochondrion, Oxygen, Water
Cell Organelles Task Cards
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Cell Organelles Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to practice their skills identifying the structures within cells and their functions. This product contains 24 cards with multiple choice questions about the different cell organelles and structures and their functions. 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.
Plate Tectonics Word Search
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Plate Tectonics Word Search

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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
Cell Organelles Escape Room
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Cell Organelles Escape Room

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of plant and animal cell organelles and their functions. 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
Equivalent Fractions: Math Escape Room
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Equivalent Fractions: Math Escape Room

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with equivalent fractions. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 3 Levels to decode: Maze Decoder, Tarsia Puzzle, and Message Decoder ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Addition and Subtraction Word Problems without Regrouping Game: Escape Room Math
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Addition and Subtraction Word Problems without Regrouping Game: Escape Room Math

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with addition and subtraction word problems without regrouping. Problems include 2-digit and 3-digit numbers. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 3 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, and Maze ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Ratios
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Ratios

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Ratios: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with ratios. There are 26 questions which include problems on equivalence, reducing ratios, determining ratios from patterns, and word problems. An answer sheet and an answer key is provided. 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
Multiplying Fractions by Whole Numbers Game: Escape Room Math
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Multiplying Fractions by Whole Numbers Game: Escape Room Math

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with multiplying fractions by whole numbers. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 3 Levels to decode: Maze Decoder, Tarsia Puzzle, and Message Decoder ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Life Cycle of Stars: An Engaging PPT - Videos, High Res. Pictures & Worksheets
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Life Cycle of Stars: An Engaging PPT - Videos, High Res. Pictures & Worksheets

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Life Cycle of Stars PowerPoint: This lesson engages students by incorporating videos, high resolution pictures, and easy to understand explanations on the life cycle of stars. This lesson contains 19 slides and should run a full class period or two to teach, and contains the following Slide Titles: ♦ The Life Cycle of Stars (Title Slide) ♦ Diagram of the Life Cycle of Stars ♦ Diagram of Small & Medium Mass Stars ♦ Life Cycle of Stars vs. Life Cycle of Humans ♦ Interstellar Cloud (with video) ♦ Protostar Formation (with video) ♦ Star Formation (with video) ♦ Red Giant Formation (with video) ♦ Planetary Nebula Animation ♦ Planetary Nebula: The Death of a Star (with 2 videos) ♦ White Dwarf: The Dead Star's Remains (with video) ♦ Diagram of Life Cycle of Massive Stars ♦ Large Star Formation ♦ Red Supergiant Formation (with video) ♦ Supernova Animation ♦ Supernova: The Death of a Red Supergiant (with 2 videos) ♦ Neutron Star: Death of Massive Stars (with 2 videos) ♦ Black Holes: Death of Super-massive Stars (with 2 videos) ♦ Diagram of the Life Cycle of Stars
Ancient Egypt Word Search
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Ancient Egypt Word Search

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Ancient Egypt: This Ancient Egypt 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. This Ancient Egypt Word Search/ Coloring Book contains the following terms: ♦ Ankh ♦ Anubis ♦ Cartouche ♦ Eye of Horus ♦ Gazelle Jar ♦ Giza Pyramids ♦ Great Sphinx ♦ Isis ♦ King Tut ♦ Lotus Girl ♦ Nefertiti ♦ Osiris ♦ Sarcophagus ♦ Scarab Beetle ♦ Scroll Thank you to Glitter Meets Glue Designs who provided the images
Ancient Rome Word Search
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Ancient Rome Word Search

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Ancient Rome: This Ancient Rome 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. This Ancient Rome Word Search/ Coloring Book contains the following terms: ♦ Ankh ♦ Arch of Titus ♦ Augustus ♦ Chariot ♦ Colosseum ♦ Constantine ♦ Fasces ♦ Gladiator ♦ Laurel ♦ Marcus Aurelius ♦ Minerva ♦ Mount Vesuvius ♦ Neptune ♦ Scroll ♦ Terracotta Thank you to Glitter Meets Glue Designs who provided the images
Parts of Speech
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Parts of Speech

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These parts of speech cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different types of parts of speech. Contents: 1. Students identify the part of speech from its definition (an example sentence is given in the answer with the part of speech underlined) 2. Students identify each part of speech within a sentence (The correct words are underlined in the answer section) 3. Students identify the part of speech from example words The following parts of speech are used within this product: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections ***** 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
Plate Tectonics Lapbook
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Plate Tectonics Lapbook

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Plate Tectonics: This plate tectonics lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each plate tectonics term and write what they find on the provided blank lines. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) Plate Tectonics Lapbook Contents: 1. How to Use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Plate tectonics vocabulary with completed facts: Divergent boundary, Convergent boundary, Transform boundary, Fault, Tectonic Plates, Hot Spot, Convection current, Volcano 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each term 4. Check out the preview for more details ***** Do a search for my other Lapbooks in the folllowing topics: ***** 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
Water Cycle
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Water Cycle

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Water Cycle: This water cycle lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each stage of the water cycle and write what they find on the provided blank lines. This lapbook also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in each stage of the water cycle. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) This water cycle lapbook contains the following: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Completed facts for each stage: Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Runoff, Transpiration 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each water cycle stage 4. Check out the preview for more details Thank you to Truthme who provided the images ***** Do a search for my other Lapbooks in the folllowing topics: ***** 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
Dinosaurs
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Dinosaurs

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Dinosaurs: These dinosaurs cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the dinosaur types. Dinosaurs Included: ♦ Tyrannosaurus rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Velociraptor, Brachiosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Diplodocus, Spinosaurus These dinosaur cootie catchers come in color and black & white, and also come with a version where students can add their own definitions about the dinosaurs. All of this totals 6 pages which has students identifying each type of dinosaur (with pictures) based from the definition or picture.
Forms of Energy Crossword Puzzle
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Forms of Energy Crossword Puzzle

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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
Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle
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Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle

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This crossword puzzle on plate tectonics 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: ♦ Continental Drift ♦ Convection Current ♦ Convergent ♦ Divergent ♦ Earthquake ♦ Fault ♦ Hot Spot ♦ Pangaea ♦ Seismic Waves ♦ Seismograph ♦ Subduction Zone ♦ Tectonic Plate ♦ Transform
Human Body Systems Crossword Puzzle
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Human Body Systems Crossword Puzzle

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This crossword puzzle on the different human body systems 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: ♦ Cardiovascular ♦ Digestive ♦ Endocrine ♦ Excretory ♦ Integumentary ♦ Lymphatic ♦ Muscular ♦ Nervous ♦ Reproductive ♦ Respiratory ♦ Skeletal
Long Division
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Long Division

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with long division with remainders. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 3 Levels to decode: Maze Decoder, Tarsia Puzzle, and Message Decoder ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room