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 breakout escape room is a fun way for students to review their geography skills by identifying all the countries within Europe. This escape room is recommended for students who have finished reviewing all the countries in Europe, however, it can still be played as a fun game if given a map of Europe with the countries labeled; such a map is also provided.
Contents:
♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ
♦ 4 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, Tarsia Puzzle, and Maze
♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key
♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
This message decoder is a great way for students to practice their skills with double digit subtraction, themed for Christmas. The solution to the puzzle is included.
This message decoder is a great way for students to practice their skills with Roman Numerals, themed for Christmas. The solution to the puzzle is included.
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.
Christmas Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet!. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Bells
♦ Candy Cane
♦ Gingerbread
♦ Lights
♦ Ornament
♦ Presents
♦ Reindeer
♦ Santa Claus
♦ Snowflake
♦ Stocking
♦ Tree
♦ Wreath
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.
Bones PowerPoint: This PowerPoint on Bones is geared to any High School Biology or Anatomy class/grade. The purpose of this PowerPoint is to summarize the important information and concepts about Bones.
There are 13 slides (excluding the title slide) on this PowerPoint which contain the following titles:
Bone Composition
Bone Structure
External Features
External Features Continued...
How Bones Grow
How Bones Grow Continued...
Distraction Osteogenesis
Internal Features
Compact Bone
Compact Bone Continued...
Function of Osteocytes
Spongy Bone
Center of Long Bones
These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with inference.
This activity has students reading 16 short passages to each other and then asked to make an inference based off the passage. Students are also asked to support their answers with details from the passage. A recording sheet with an answer key is provided.
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.
The Universe PowerPoint:
This PowerPoint on the structure of the universe was designed to captivate and put students in awe of the vast distances of space.
There are 22 slides which include the following:
♦ 6 slides showing how a small (seemingly empty) part of space (seen from Earth)
actually contains multitudes of galaxies with multitudes of stars
♦ 16 slides showing the structure of the Universe: Earth --> Solar System --> Solar
Neighborhood --> Galaxy --> Local Galactic Group --> Superclusters --> Universe
♦ Fun Twist: Each slide shows how long it would take to travel to each one of these
places in the fastest spaceship ever built.
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with calculating density. Problems include determining volume from cubes, cylinders, and graduated cylinders.
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
Lab Equipment: This lab equipment 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 Lab Equipment Word Search/ Coloring Book contains the following terms:
♦ Beaker
♦ Bunsen Burner
♦ Crucible
♦ Dropper
♦ Evaporating Dish
♦ Filter Flask
♦ Flask
♦ Graduated Cylinder
♦ Microscope
♦ Mortar and Pestle
♦ Petri Dish
♦ Pipette
♦ Test Tube
♦ Thermometer
♦ Tongs
♦ Wash Bottle
Thank you to Glitter Meets Glue Designs who provided the images
Inference: These inferences cootie catchers are a fun way to practice inference. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students reading 16 short passages (over 2 cootie catchers) to each other and then asked to make an inference based off the passage. Students are also asked to support their answers with details from the passage.
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♦ 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
Nouns: These nouns cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while identifying the four different types of nouns: common nouns, proper nouns, plural nouns, and pronouns. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students reading 16 statements (over 2 cootie catchers) to each other and then asked to identify each type of noun.
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♦ 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
Spelling: These commonly misspelled words cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while identifying the correct spelling of many commonly misspelled words. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students identifying the correct spelling, given multiple choice options, of 16 different commonly misspelled words outlined below:
Acceptable, Accommodate, Argument, Calendar, Commitment, Consensus, Embarrass, Existence, Foreword,, Inadvertent, Judgment, License, Neighbor, Occasion, Occurrence, Privilege, Proceed, Schedule, Separate Withhold
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♦ 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
Measurement Tools: This measurement tools 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.
Measurement Tools Vocabulary Terms:
♦ Balance
♦ Caliper
♦ Clock
♦ Compass
♦ Cup
♦ Graduated Cylinder
♦ Protractor
♦ Right Angle
♦ Ruler
♦ Scale
♦ Spring Scale
♦ Stop Watch
♦ T-Square
♦ Tape Measure
♦ Test Tube
♦ Thermometer
Thank you to Glitter Meets Glue Designs who provided the images
Titanic: This Titanic 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 Historical Figure and Term Associated with the Titanic. A completed lapbook with answers is included.
Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page)
This Titanic lapbook contains the following:
1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook
2. Completed facts for each Term:
Captain Edward John Smith, Thomas Andrews, The "unsinkable" Molly Brown,
William McMaster Murdoch, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor IV,
RMS Carpathia, SS Californian
3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each term
4. Check out the preview for more details
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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