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 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
H-R Diagram Graphing Activity: This activity has students completing the following:
1. Graphing stars based from their temperature and brightness.
2. Marking each star on the graph according to their size.
3. Label the Spectral Classes OBAFGKM
4. Identify each group of stars as either White dwarfs, Main sequence stars, Giants, or Supergiants.
5. Post lab critical thinking questions
6. Answer Keys: completed graph and answers to lab questions
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with calculating profit and loss.
Contents:
♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ
♦ 3 Levels to decode: Multiple choice, Message Decoder, and a Maze
♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key
♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with simple, compound, and complex sentences. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Problem Types:
1. Students identify simple, compound, and complex sentences
2. Students add or take away phrases to change the sentence type as well as combining or separating sentences. These require students to be familiar with independent and dependent clauses and conjunctions.
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to practice their skills with synonyms.
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
This Nonfiction Text Features Word Search is a great way for students to have fun while reviewing the different types of non fiction text features. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Idioms Included:
♦ Diagram
♦ Graph
♦ Illustration
♦ Index
♦ Photograph
♦ Sidebar
♦ Subheadings
♦ Subtitle
♦ Table
♦ Table of Contents
♦ Title
♦ Title Page
Moon Phases: This moon phases wheel dial activity allows students to shade in and label each Moon Phase and cycle through each phase using a wheel. This Moon Phases activity is a great addition to any science interactive notebook.
Moon Phases Wheel Dial Contents:
1. Moon phases board for students to shade in and label.
2. Color Wheel with instructions
3. Ink friendly black and white wheel
4. Moon phases Answer board
5. Smaller Moon Phases board (for smaller notebooks) & the wheel in color
6. Smaller Moon Phases board (for smaller notebooks) & the wheel in black and white
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
These breakout escape rooms are a fun way for students to review photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Important Note: This product contains two separate escape rooms: one for photosynthesis and one for cellular respiration (not one together).
Each escape room have the following 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 lessons sell individually for $10; as a bundle they are 30% off, for $7!
Biomes Lapbook: This Biomes lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each biome 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 biome. A completed biomes lapbook with answers is included.
Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page)
Biomes Lapbook Contents:
1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the biomes lapbook
2. Biomes included with completed facts:
Savannah, Grassland, Temperate forest, Taiga,
Tundra, Rainforest, Alpine, Desert
3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each biome
4. Check out the preview for more details
Thank you to The Lost Teacher and Educlips 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
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 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
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 message decoder is a great way for students to practice their skills with missing angles, themed for Christmas. The solution to the puzzle is included.
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of DNA replication.
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