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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
Parts of a Flower Activity: Escape Room - Science
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Parts of a Flower Activity: Escape Room - Science

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of the different parts of a flower as well as their functions. 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
Water Potential Activity: AP Biology Escape Room Science
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Water Potential Activity: AP Biology Escape Room Science

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of water potential for AP Biology. 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
Protein Synthesis and Gene Regulation Activity: AP Biology Escape Room Science
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Protein Synthesis and Gene Regulation Activity: AP Biology Escape Room Science

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of protein synthesis and gene regulation. Keywords Included for Gene Regulation: Promoter, TATA Box, Spliceosome, Repressor, Co-Repressor, Inducer, Negative Control, Positive Control, Enhancer, Silencer 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
Genetics and Heredity Activity: AP Biology Escape Room (with Hardy Weinberg)
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Genetics and Heredity Activity: AP Biology Escape Room (with Hardy Weinberg)

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of protein synthesis and gene regulation. Keywords and Topics: Pedigree Analysis, Hardy-Weinberg problems, Inheritance patterns: Complete dominance, Incomplete dominance, Dihybrid cross, Codominance, Polygenic inheritance, Pleiotropy, Multiple Alleles, Epistasis 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
Nitrogen Cycle Activity: Escape Room - Science
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Nitrogen Cycle Activity: Escape Room - Science

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge of the nitrogen cycle. 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
Infectious Diseases Activity Escape Room Science: (Bacteria and Viruses Unit)
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Infectious Diseases Activity Escape Room Science: (Bacteria and Viruses Unit)

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of the different types of infectious diseases. It is recommended that students have reviewed and/ or be familiar with at least 50% of the following diseases: Terms Included: Influenza, Rabies, Chickenpox, Common Cold, Mononucleosis, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Tuberculosis, Malaria, Measles, Ebola, (Salmonella, Dysentery Cholera), Syphilis, Hepatitis B, Pneumonia, Polio, (Tetanus, Botulism), Diphtheria, Lyme Disease, (West Nile, Zika, Dengue), Giardiasis 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
Gene Cloning and Genetic Engineering Activity: Science Escape Room Biology
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Gene Cloning and Genetic Engineering Activity: Science Escape Room Biology

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of genetic engineering and gene cloning. 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
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Mitosis

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Mitosis Cootie Catchers/ Fortune Tellers: are a great way for students to have fun while learning about each phase of mitosis and other important terms. These cootie catchers contain the following terms: Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Centrioles, DNA, Chromosome, Spindle Fibers These mitosis cootie catchers come in color and black & white, and also come with a version where students can add their own definitions. All of this totals 6 pages which has students identifying vocabulary terms about Mitosis (with pictures) based from the definition. ***** Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers in the folllowing topics: ***** United States History: ♦ 13 Colonies ♦ American Heroes ♦ American Revolution ♦ American Symbols ♦ Benjamin Franklin ♦ Bill of Rights ♦ Black History Month ♦ Boston Tea Party ♦ Branches of Government ♦ Christopher Columbus ♦ Civil Rights ♦ Civil War ♦ Cold War ♦ Columbian Exchange ♦ Constitution ♦ Declaration of Independence ♦ Dust Bowl ♦ Economics ♦ First Thanksgiving ♦ French and Indian War ♦ Gilded Age ♦ Great Depression ♦ Immigration ♦ Industrial Revolution ♦ Inventors ♦ Jamestown ♦ Lewis and Clark ♦ Lost Colony of Roanoke ♦ Louisiana Purchase ♦ Loyalists or Patriots ♦ Martin Luther King ♦ Native Americans ♦ Oregon Trail ♦ Pilgrims ♦ Progressive Era ♦ Reconstruction ♦ Spanish American War ♦ Texas Revolution ♦ Underground Railroad ♦ War of 1812 ♦ Westward Expansion ♦ World War I ♦ World War II World History: ♦ Absolute Monarchs ♦ European Explorers ♦ Famous Explorers ♦ French Revolution ♦ Holocaust ♦ Middle Ages ♦ Renaissance ♦ Crusades ♦ Titanic ♦ World War I ♦ World War II Ancient History: ♦ China ♦ Egypt ♦ Greece ♦ India ♦ Rome ♦ Incas ♦ Aztecs ♦ Maya's ♦ Mesopotamia ♦ Vikings
Six Kingdoms of Life Fold and learn
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Six Kingdoms of Life Fold and learn

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Six Kingdoms of Life Fold and Learn: is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research or show what they have learned by writing different facts about the six kingdoms of life. This fold and learn also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in the picture of each type of organism. A completed version with answers is included. This Six Kingdoms of Life Fold and Learn fits neatly inside of composition books and contains the following: 1. Assembly Instructions 2. Completed facts for each kingdom: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each kingdom
Circulatory System Cootie Catchers
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Circulatory System Cootie Catchers

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Circulatory System: These circulatory system cootie catchers of the heart are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different parts of the human heart. These cootie catchers contain the following terms: Left ventricle, Right ventricle, Left atrium, Right atrium, Tricuspid valve, Mitral valve, Pulmonary valve, Aortic valve AND Aorta, Pulmonary artery, Superior vena cava, Inferior vena cava, Pulmonary artery, Right coronary artery, Left coronary artery, Capillaries
Rainforest Word Search/ Coloring Book
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Rainforest Word Search/ Coloring Book

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Rainforest: This rainforest animals word search also doubles as a coloring book!. The solution to the puzzle is included. Rainforest Animals Included: ♦ Anaconda ♦ Butterfly ♦ Caterpillar ♦ Chameleon ♦ Crocodile ♦ Dragonfly ♦ Frog ♦ Macaw ♦ Monkey ♦ Piranha ♦ Sloth ♦ Toucan
Zoo Animals Word Search/ Coloring Book
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Zoo Animals Word Search/ Coloring Book

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Zoo Animals: This zoo animals word search also doubles as a coloring book!. The solution to the puzzle is included. Zoo Animals Word Search/ Coloring Book Terms: ♦ Bear ♦ Camel ♦ Cheetah ♦ Dolphin ♦ Elephant ♦ Giraffe ♦ Gorilla ♦ Lion ♦ Monkey ♦ Peacock ♦ Tiger ♦ Walrus
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Scientific Method

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Scientific Method: These scientific method skittles labs are a fun way to have students learn about the scientific method. Scientific Method Skittles Lab contents: 1. Skittle Colors Lab: A. Question: Which color skittle is most common in a package of skittles? B. Developing a hypothesis C. Procedure D. Data Tables E. Graphing F. Post-Lab Questions 2. Skittles Mass and Amount Lab A. Question: How accurate are Skittles packages to one another in terms of mass and total number of Skittles? B. Developing a hypothesis C. Procedure D. Data and Analysis E. Post-Lab Questions
Animal Adaptations Lapbook
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Animal Adaptations Lapbook

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Animal Adaptations: This animal adaptations lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each adaptation 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 animal adaptation. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) Animal Adaptations Lapbook Contents: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the animal adaptations lapbook 2. Animal Adaptations with completed facts: Hibernation, Migration, Predation defense, Estivation, Camouflage, Migration, Echolocation & ultrasound, Food Storage 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each adaptation 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
Cell Structures Lapbook
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Cell Structures Lapbook

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Cell Structures: This cell structures lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each cellular structure 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 structure. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) Cell Structures Lapbook Contents: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Cell Structures vocabulary with completed facts: Rough ER, Smooth ER, Chloroplast, Golgi apparatus, Nucleus, Ribosome, Mitochondria, Cell wall 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each cell structure 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
Plant Life Cycle Lapbook
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Plant Life Cycle Lapbook

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Plants (life cycle of plants) Lapbook: This plants lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about the life cycle of plants and write what they find on the provided blank lines. Plants lapbook also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in each stage of the plant life cycle. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Plants lapbook also fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) Plants Lapbook Contents: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Plants life cycle stage: Completed Facts: Seed, Germination, Seedling, Plant, Flowers/ Pollination 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each plant life cycle stage 4. Check out the preview for more details Thank you to Scrappin Doodles who provided some 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
Frog Life Cycle Lapbook
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Frog Life Cycle Lapbook

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Frog Life Cycle Lapbook: is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about the life cycle of frogs 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 frog life cycle. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) This frog life cycle lapbook contains the following: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Completed facts for each life cycle stage: Eggs, Tadpole, Tadpole with legs, Froglet, Frog 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each frog life cycle stage 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
Butterfly Life Cycle Lapbook
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Butterfly Life Cycle Lapbook

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Butterfly Life Cycle Lapbook: is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about the life cycle of butterflies 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 butterfly life cycle. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) This butterfly life cycle lapbook contains the following: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Completed facts for each life cycle stage: Eggs, Caterpillar, Pupa, Emerging Butterfly, Adult Butterfly 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each butterfly life cycle stage 4. Check out the preview for more details Thank you to Kari Bolt Clip Art 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
Scientific Method
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Scientific Method

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Scientific Method: This bundle contains all of my activities on the scientific method. All these lessons sell individually for $24.50; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $14.95! 1. Scientific Method Fold and Learn: A. Fold and learn scientific method cover in color B. Fold and learn scientific method in black and white C. Blank version for students to explain each stage of the scientific method OR use with an actual experiment (example experiment included) D. Along with an experiment, students describe each stage of the scientific method. E. Example experiment: How does salt affect the boiling point of water. 2. Scientific Method Cootie Catchers: Vocabulary: Observation, Question, Purpose, Hypothesis, Materials, Procedure, Data, Conclusion 3. Task Cards: A. 20 Task Cards (Can be put onto a key chain) B. Student Answer Pages C. Teacher Answer Keys 4. Word Search: Vocabulary: Bar Graph, Classification, Conclusion, Data, Experiment, Hypothesis, Line Graph, Materials, Measure, Observation, Pie Chart, Prediction, Procedure, Question, Research, Variables 5. Scientific Method Skittles Labs: A. Skittle Colors Lab: A. Question: Which color skittle is most common in a package of skittles? B. Developing a hypothesis C. Procedure D. Data Tables E. Graphing F. Post-Lab Questions B. Skittles Mass and Amount Lab A. Question: How accurate are Skittles packages to one another in terms of mass and total number of Skittles? B. Developing a hypothesis C. Procedure D. Data and Analysis E. Post-Lab Questions 6. Scientific Method Gummy Bears Lab: A. Question: What will happen to gummy bears if they are placed into different solutions: Water, Vinegar, Water & Baking soda, Water & Salt? B. Developing a hypothesis C. Procedure D. Data Tables E. Graphing F. Post-Lab Questions 7. Scientific Method Lapbook AND Accordion Booklet Completed facts for each term: Question/ Problem/ Purpose, Hypothesis, Materials, Procedure, Data/ Results, Conclusion
Human Body Systems Cootie Catchers
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Human Body Systems Cootie Catchers

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Human Body Systems: These human body systems cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different body systems in the human body. Human Body Systems Included: ♦ Skeletal, Muscular, Nervous, Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Digestive, Endocrine, Lymphatic These human body system cootie catchers on the human body systems come in color and black & white, and also come with a version where students can add their own definitions. All of this totals 4 pages which has students identifying vocabulary terms about electrial circuits (with pictures) based from the definition. ***** Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers in the folllowing topics: ***** 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