Welcome to my shop! I love being able to help other teachers during the year when they have so many things on their plate.
I have taught both high school and junior high school science. I was also a scientist for a few years before I decided to teach. It made teaching very interesting and the students loved the stories.
I hope I have a little something for you all!
Welcome to my shop! I love being able to help other teachers during the year when they have so many things on their plate.
I have taught both high school and junior high school science. I was also a scientist for a few years before I decided to teach. It made teaching very interesting and the students loved the stories.
I hope I have a little something for you all!
Jane Goodall has inspired millions of people around the world. Let’s show your students some of the amazing things she has accomplished!
You will receive a pdf of the Jane Goodall Mini-Biography.
Includes:
Timeline
3 versions (simplified, detailed, and blank for students to fill in themselves)
Informational Posters
Can be used as a Scientist of the Month/Week
Scientist of the Month/Week posters included
Group or individual work
Or just display in your classroom
Word Search
Answer key included
Question Sheets
Can be used as entrance tickets, exit tickets, or writing prompts
Also available: Mitosis and Meiosis Worksheet bundle for a 20% discount!
You will receive a pdf covering the following topics:
Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis table
One left blank and one with terms available to circle for differentiation in the classroom
Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis Venn diagram
Answer Keys included
Some ways to use these pages:
Warm up for your lesson
Exit tickets
Reinforcement worksheet
Quiz
Homework pages
Interactive notebook
Substitute pages
You will receive a PPT and PDF version of the slide show.
This 40 slide PPT covers
Pedigree chart basic information
How to read a pedigree chart
Male and female
P and F generations
Numbering
Shading
Step by step process of a trait moving through the pedigree
Incudes questions for students to answer
The 4 types of pedigree charts
Sex-linked (I focus on X-linked in this slide show)
Dominant and recessive
Autosomal
Dominant and recessive
Students will create their own super hero using genetics! They will flip coins to determine the genotype and phenotype of their super hero.
Teacher page with objectives, Next Generation Science Standards, pre and post activity questions, and much more included!
Includes two versions:
With and without incomplete dominant and co-dominant traits
You will receive 26 vocabulary cards with definitions covering terms about evolution and natural selection.
Adaptation
Adaptive Radiation
Analogous Structures
Artificial Selection
Behavioral Adaptation
Camouflage
Cladogram
Coevolution
Convergent Evolution
Descent of Modification
Divergent Evolution
Evolution
Extinction
Fossil
Homologous Structure
Macroevolution
Microevolution
Mimicry
Natural Selection
Shared Derived Characteristic
Speciation
Structural Adaptation
Survival of the Fittest
Theory
Variation
Vestigial Structure
You can use the cards in multiple ways, including: placing them on a word wall and use them as a vocabulary review game as a whole class or as a group.
I am able to customize vocabulary cards for any topic. Please let me know if you are looking for something specific.
Students will create a foldable depicting three symbiotic relationships: mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. Students will identify examples of symbiotic relationships.
This activity includes an introduction to symbiosis, entrance tickets, exit tickets, foldable, answer keys/example, and rubrics.
The foldable can be added to an interactive notebook or used as a stand alone activity.
You will receive a PDF of the foldable and a PPT of the questions and symbiosis information so you can easily project the information on your board.
You will receive 36 vocabulary cards with definitions covering terms about the types of science.
You can use the cards in multiple ways, including: placing them on a word wall and use them as a vocabulary review game as a whole class or as a group.
I am able to customize vocabulary cards for any topic. Please let me know if you are looking for something specific.
You will receive in PDF format:
Review questions with answer key
Test with answer key
Differentiated test with answer key
The test is multiple choice, matching, and short answer.
The review questions cover all of the material on the test:
What are abiotic and biotic factors? Give 2 examples of each.
What is a niche? Name the niches you would find in an oak tree.
What is happening when an organism immigrates? Emigrates?
Give a reason why an organism would immigrate. Give a reason why an organism would emigrate.
Explain the following relationships: Commensalistic, Mutualistic, and Parasitic.
Give an example of commensalistic, mutualistic, and parasitic relationships.
What are the levels of ecological organization in order from smallest to largest? Explain each level.
How do you calculate the population growth rate of an area?
In 2015 there were 34,200 geese in the state of Washington compared to the 48,000 found in 2001. What is the population growth rate for the geese in Washington State?
What does a negative and positive population growth rate mean?
How do you calculate the population density of an area?
There are 57 goldfish in a 30L tank. What is the population density of the goldfish?
Name and define the 2 types of succession.
What is predation? Give an example.
What are the 3 types of distribution? Explain each type.
Thank you,
Wendy
You will receive in PDF format:
Review questions with answer key
Test with answer key
Differentiated test with answer key
The test is multiple choice, matching, and short answer.
The review questions cover all of the material on the test:
What is the difference in a food chain and a food web?
What is an apex predator?
How do producers get their energy?
What is the difference between autotrophs and heterotrophs?
What do the arrows on a food web represent?
What do primary consumers eat?
What is the difference between producers and consumers?
How much energy from each trophic level moves to the next level?
Define the following: Carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore.
What are scavengers and decomposers? How do they fit in a food web?
How much energy would move through each trophic level, up to tertiary consumers, if the producers have 5,642kcal of energy?
Draw an ecological pyramid with 4 trophic levels. Label the following: tertiary consumer, herbivore, heterotroph, autotroph, primary consumer, apex predator, producer, and secondary consumer.
(Use the food web to answer) Which organism(s) in the food web is a primary consumer? Secondary consumer? Tertiary consumer? Producer? Apex predator?
(Use the food web to answer) Choose one food chain in the food web, list all organisms starting with the producer and ending with the highest-level consumer in that food chain.
(Use the food web to answer) How would the ecosystem change if you removed one apex predator from this food web?
Robert Hooke’s most notable discovery was when he observed cork though a handmade microscope and discovered the cell.
You will receive a pdf of the Robert Hooke Mini-Biography.
Includes:
Timeline
3 versions (simplified, detailed, and blank for students to fill in themselves)
Informational Posters
Can be used as a Scientist of the Month/Week
Scientist of the Month/Week posters included
Group or individual work
Or just display in your classroom
Word Search
Answer key included
Question Sheets
Can be used as entrance tickets, exit tickets, or writing prompts
You will receive 40 vocabulary cards with definitions covering terms about the chemistry of life.
Acid
Atomic mass
Atomic number
Base
Buffer
Carbohydrate
Chemical bond
Chemical reaction
Compound
Covalent bond
Electron
Electronegativity
Element
Enzyme
Heat
Hydrogen bond
Ion
Ionic bond
Isotopes
Lipid
Mass number
Matter
Molecule
Neutron
Nonpolar
Nucleic acid
Nucleus
pH scale
Polar covalent bond
Polar molecule
Product
Protein
Proton
Reactant
Specific heat
Solute
Solution
Solvent
Surface tension
Temperature
You can use the cards in multiple ways, including: placing them on a word wall and use them as a vocabulary review game as a whole class or as a group.
I am able to customize vocabulary cards for any topic. Please let me know if you are looking for something specific.
You will receive 30 total vocabulary cards with definitions covering terms about taxonomy.
Vocabulary Included for Taxonomy Part 1
Autotroph
Binomial Nomenclature
Carolus Linnaeus
Class
Classification
Dichotomous Key
Domain
Eukaryote
Family
Genus
Heterotroph
Kingdom
Multicellular
Order
Phylum
Prokaryote
Scientific Name
Species
Taxa
Taxonomy
Unicellular
Vocabulary Included for Taxonomy Part 2
Animalia
Archaea
Archaebacteria
Bacteria
Eubacteria
Eukarya
Fungi
Plantae
Protista
You can use the cards in multiple ways, including: placing them on a word wall and use them as a vocabulary review game as a whole class or as a group.
You will receive 34 vocabulary cards with definitions covering terms about ecology, succession, and populations.
Vocabulary Included:
Abiotic Factor
Biotic Factor
Climax Community
Clumped Distribution
Commensalism
Community
Competition
Density Dependent Factors
Density Independent Factors
Ecology
Ecosystem
Emigration
Habitat
Herbivory
Immigration
Ecological Organization
Organism
Parasitism
Mutualism
Niche
Pioneer Species
Population
Population Density
Population Distribution
Population Growth Rate
Prey
Predation
Predator
Primary Succession
Random Distribution
Secondary Succession
Succession
Symbiosis
Uniform Distribution
You will receive** 35 vocabulary cards** with definitions.
Vocabulary included:
Allele
Carrier
Chromosome
Codominance
Deletion
DNA
Dominant
Duplication
Gene
Genetics
Genotype
Gregor Mendel
Heredity
Heterozygous
Homozygous
Hybrid
Incomplete Dominance
Insertion
Inversion
Law of Dominance
Law of Independent Assortment
Law of Segregation
Mutation
Nondisjunction
Nucleotide
Pedigree
Phenotype
Probability
Protein
Punnett Square
Purebred
Recessive
RNA
Substitution
Translocation
You can use the cards in multiple ways, including: placing them on a word wall and use them as a vocabulary review game as a whole class or as a group.
Four weeks of Scientific Method Bellringers with handouts for student answers!
Answer Key Included!
Other bellringers available:
The first week of my Scientific Method Bellringers FREE HERE
Five weeks of the Cell HERE
Four weeks of Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration HERE
Three weeks of General Ecology HERE
Four weeks of Biomes HERE
You will receive 20 days of bellringers/warm ups
Week 1:
Word of the Week: Hypothesis
Read and Respond: Scientific Theory
Compare and Contrast: Qualitative and Quantitative
Problem Solving: Classifying Objects
Anything Goes: Aristotle
Week 2:
Word of the Week: Inference
Read and Respond: Experimental Mistakes
Compare and Contrast: Inference and Prediction
Problem Solving: Controls and Variables
Anything Goes: Scientific Method Steps
Week 3:
Word of the Week: Independent Variable
Read and Respond: Hypothesis Development
Compare and Contrast: Independent and Dependent
Problem Solving: Controls and Variables
Anything Goes: SI System
Week 4:
Word of the Week: Spontaneous Generation
Read and Respond: Controlled Experiments
Compare and Contrast: Objective and Subjective
Problem Solving: Controls and Variables
Anything Goes: Francesco Redi
You will receive a PPT and PDF version of the slide show.
This 39 slide PPT covers
Basic genetics and heredity background including Gregor Mendel and Reginald Punnett.
Punnett squares.
Vocabulary including allele, dominant, recessive, genotype, phenotype, homozygous, and heterozygous.
Step by step set up of Punnett squares.
Probability.
Practice problems with step-by-step explanation of the answers.
You will receive 44 vocabulary cards with definitions covering terms about atoms, bonding, and the periodic table.
You will receive a PDF copy.
You can use the cards in multiple ways, including: placing them on a word wall and use them as a vocabulary review game as a whole class or as a group.
I am able to customize vocabulary cards for any topic. Please let me know if you are looking for something specific.
Three weeks of The Cell Bellringers with handouts for student answers!
Answer Key Included
You will receive 17 days of bellringers/warm ups
Week 1:
Word of the Week: Cell Theory
Read and Respond: Three Tenets of the Cell Theory
Compare and Contrast: Prokaryote and Eukaryote
Problem Solving: Prokaryote and Eukaryote Evolution
Anything Goes: Schleiden, Schwann, and Virchow
Week 2:
Word of the Week: Nucleus
Read and Respond: Importance of the Plasma Membrane
Compare and Contrast: Animal Cell and Plant Cell
Problem Solving: Flagellum and Cilia
Anything Goes: Robert Hooke
Week 3:
Word of the Week: Endoplasmic Reticulum
Read and Respond: Tolerance to Medication
Compare and Contrast: Smooth and Rough ER
Problem Solving: Cell Organelle Analogy
Anything Goes: Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
2 Bonus Slides Included:
Anything Goes: Animal Cell Structures
Anything Goes: Plant Cell Structures
You will receive 45 vocabulary cards with definitions covering terms about plant structure and function.
This item is included in a MEGA Vocabulary Bundle for a 40% discount
Words included:
Cell, Dermal Tissue, Vascular Tissue, Ground Tissue, Xylem, Phloem, Root System, Fibrous Root, Taproot, Root Hair, Root Cap, Storage Root, Aerial Root, Aerial Prop Root, Strangling Aerial Root, Buttress Root, Shoot System, Stem, Node, Internode, Bulb, Rhizome, Stolon, Tuber, Leaf, Blade, Stalk, Vein, Stomata, Tendril, Spine, Storage Leaf, Bract, Flower, Pollen, Carpel, Stigma, Style, Ovary, Stamen, Anther, Filament, Petal, Sepal, Fruit
You will receive a PDF copy but if you need the PPT version for editing purposes please let me know.
You can use the cards in multiple ways, including: placing them on a word wall and use them as a vocabulary review game as a whole class or as a group.
I am able to customize vocabulary cards for any topic. Please let me know if you are looking for something specific.