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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
Probability Task Cards
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Probability Task Cards

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Probability: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with calculating probability. There are 20 questions and include an answer sheet as well as an answer key. 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
Long Division Task Cards
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Long Division Task Cards

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Long Division: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with long division. There are 26 cards and Step-by-Step answers are included for each problem on answer cards and an answer key. Problem Types: 1. 4-digits divided by 1-digit, no remainder 2. 4-digits divided by 1-digit, with remainders 3. 4-digits divided by 2-digits, with remainders 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
Rounding Decimals Task Cards
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Rounding Decimals Task Cards

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Rounding Decimals: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with rounding decimals. Problems include rounding to the tenths, hundredths, and thousandths place. 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
Mexican American War Crossword Puzzle
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Mexican American War Crossword Puzzle

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This crossword puzzle on the Mexican American War is a great 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: ♦ Bear Flag Revolt ♦ Gadsden Purchase ♦ Guadalupe Hidalgo ♦ James K Polk ♦ Manifest Destiny ♦ Mexican Cession ♦ Robert E Lee ♦ Santa Anna ♦ Texas Annexation ♦ Wilmot Proviso ♦ Winfield Scott ♦ Zachary Taylor
Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics Word Wall Cards
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Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics Word Wall Cards

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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
Types of Fossils Word Wall Cards
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Types of Fossils Word Wall Cards

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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
Scientific Method Word Wall Cards
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Scientific Method Word Wall Cards

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These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of the scientific method. This product contains 16 cards with definitions and images for each term: ♦ Observation ♦ Question ♦ Hypothesis ♦ Research ♦ Prediction ♦ Procedure ♦ Experiment ♦ Materials ♦ Variables ♦ Measure ♦ Data ♦ Bar Graph ♦ Pie Chart ♦ Line Graph ♦ Data Table ♦ Conclusion
The Titanic: Escape Room - Social Studies
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The Titanic: Escape Room - Social Studies

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge about the Titanic. 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 ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Respiratory System Escape Room - Science: Anatomy
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Respiratory System Escape Room - Science: Anatomy

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge with the respiratory system. 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 ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Naming Covalent Compounds: Chemistry Escape Room - Science
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Naming Covalent Compounds: Chemistry Escape Room - Science

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with naming covalent compounds. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 3 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Tarsia Puzzle, and Maze ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Prefixes and Suffixes Task Cards
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Prefixes and Suffixes Task Cards

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Suffixes and Prefixes: This bundle includes task cards for both prefixes and suffixes as outlined below: These lessons sell individually for $5.1; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $3.30! These activities has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in each product, and then asked to choose the correct prefix or suffix for a given word in the sentence. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Tone and Mood Task Cards
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Tone and Mood Task Cards

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Tone and Mood: These task cards are a great way for students to improve their vocabulary as well as their skills with tone and mood. This activity has students reading a vocabulary word and then giving its definition and stating the mood of that word. Moods: Happy, Anger, Arrogant, Sad, Fear, Neutral Vocabulary: Scornful Elated Incredulous Morose Apathetic Erudite Haughty Foreboding Forthright Savage Pessimistic Detached Melancholy Indignant Candid Exuberant Caustic Ecstatic Facetious Somber Malicious Jubilant Insolent Jovial Flippant Content
Moon Phases Task Cards
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Moon Phases Task Cards

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Moon Phases Task Cards: These task cards are a great way for students to improve their skills with identifying the phases of the moon and their knowledge of the Sun, Earth, Moon system as a whole. There are two versions of this product: 24 cards with multiple choice questions, and the same 24 cards but with the multiple choice questions taken out to work as open ended questions. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Logic Puzzles Task Cards
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Logic Puzzles Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while while keeping their minds at work at the same time. An example logic puzzle: Question: A man builds a house with all 4 sides facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear? Answer: White: The house is built directly on the North Pole
Waves and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Waves and the Electromagnetic Spectrum

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These cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the electromagnetic spectrum. Terms Included: ♦ Radio Waves, Microwaves, Infrared, Visible Light, Ultraviolet Light, X-Rays, Gamma-Rays, Electromagnetic Spectrum These 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 4 pages which has students identifying vocabulary terms based from the definition.
Compare and Contrast Task Cards
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Compare and Contrast Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their comparing and contrasting skills. This activity has students reading 16 text passages (some are informational passages) to each other and then asked to compare and contrast the information within the passage. Students may record their answers on the provided answer sheet. An answer key is also included.
Native Americans Lapbook
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Native Americans Lapbook

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Native Americans: This fun native americans lapbook 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 facts about each famous Native American. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Native Americans lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) Native Americans Lapbook Contents: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Native Americans: Completed Facts: Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Sacajawea, Tecumseh, Sitting Bull, Black Hawk, Geronimo, Chief Joseph 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 interactive notebooks in the folllowing topics: ***** U.S. History: ♦ 13 Colonies ♦ American Heroes ♦ American Revolution ♦ American Symbols ♦ Bill of Rights ♦ Black History Month ♦ Boston Tea Party ♦ Branches of Government ♦ Christopher Columbus ♦ Civil Rights ♦ Civil War ♦ Cold War ♦ Columbian Exchange ♦ Declaration of Independence ♦ French and Indian War ♦ Gilded Age ♦ Great Depression ♦ Immigration ♦ Inventors ♦ Jamestown ♦ Lewis and Clark ♦ Lost Colony of Roanoke ♦ Louisiana Purchase ♦ Loyalists or Patriots ♦ Martin Luther King ♦ Native Americans ♦ Pilgrims ♦ Progressive Era ♦ Reconstruction ♦ Spanish American War ♦ Texas Revolution ♦ Underground Railroad ♦ War of 1812 ♦ Westward Expansion ♦ World War I ♦ World War II World History: Get all 11 (35% OFF) in the Bundle! ♦ Absolute Monarchs ♦ Crusades ♦ European Explorers ♦ Famous Explorers ♦ French Revolution ♦ Holocaust ♦ Middle Ages ♦ Renaissance ♦ Titanic ♦ World War I ♦ World War II Ancient History: Get all 10 (35% OFF) in the Bundle! ♦ China ♦ Egypt ♦ Greece ♦ India ♦ Rome ♦ Incas ♦ Aztecs ♦ Maya ♦ Mesopotamia ♦ Vikings