Teach students about chemical reactions by having them explore in-depth how alcohol flushing occurs at the molecular level in the form of a poster project. Students research: Pharmacokinetics Alcohol Flush Students explain: What causes the red flush in a person’s face when they consume alcohol? How does the red flush connect to pharmacokinetics? Students include: Diagrams detailing how the flushing occurs. Including what is occurring at the molecular level. When you download this project you will receive: The poster project requirements in word and pdf form Detailed rubric in word and pdf form Several student poster examples

A unique way to teach about energy transfer! You will definitely catch students’ interest level with the candle powered car anchoring phenomena. Students are surprised to see that this toy car can be powered by simply lightening a candle. In groups, they model together the different energy transfers and they explain how they believe the car works. Before students watch the anchoring phenomena video and begin embarking on creating their models, they answer a few do now questions. What’s included Teacher slides in pdf and powerpoint form * do now questions * do now answers * explanation of different energy types * video link * candle powered car model assignment description * teacher notes located in powerpoint * sample student models Student slides in pdf form * do now questions * do now answers * explanation of different energy types * video link * candle powered car model assignment description 6 sample student models NGSS Chemistry Alignment NGSS.HS-PS3-2

Students learn how medicine is processed in the body after watching a short video. Students then apply their understanding by modeling the different phases (i.e. Administration, Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion) that occur in the body after medicine is consumed. Video link located at bottom of worksheet. Sample student models included Great for a biochemistry course!

A Venn Diagram for you and your students to compare and contrast Darwin vs. Lamarck’s theories on evolution and natural selection. When you download this product you receive: A student Venn Diagram in pdf and word form A teacher Venn Diagram Key in pdf and word form **NGSS Biology Alignment ** NGSS.HS-LS4-1 NGSS.HS-LS4-3 NGSS.HS-LS4-4 NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Ants are simple insects with complex lives and evolutional histories. This is the most interesting documentary on ants that explores everything from how they behave, what they do in case of emergencies, what insect they evolved from, the symbiotic relationships they have with other organisms, and more. Your students will never look at ants the same way again after watching the documentary and answering the questions. Many students are surprised to learn that there are scientists who study ants for a living. When you download this product you receive: 16 students questions on the Ants Documentary in pdf and word form Answer key to the documentary questions in pdf and word form Link to ants documentary NGSS Biology Alignment NGSS.HS-LS4-2 NGSS.HS-LS4-3 NGSS.HS-LS4-4 NGSS.HS-LS2-6 NGSS.HS-LS2-8 NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Evolution is a biological topic that many students find to be incredibly boring. This project helps to solve this issue by allowing students to show how our current actions will affect the way our species will look and act in the year 3000. The project helps to bust any misconceptions about evolution being a concept of the past. Students get to choose from several interesting topics: video games (teenagers today spend most of their waking hours playing video games) TV (teens can spend days binge watching their favorite shows) the internet or usage of phone apps (teenagers practically live on the internet and have their phones attached to them all the time!) fast/processed food (due to how busy our lives have become a large portion of our population relies on fast/processed food). . . . and they also get to choose how they want to present their information: an essay a video presentation an illustration a song When you download this free file you receive a do now that probes students’ background knowledge and thoughts on evolution, detailed explanation of evolution project, rubric for project, and sample student project examples. NGSS Biology Alignment NGSS.HS-LS4-3 NGSS.HS-LS4-4 NGSS.HS-LS4-5

This bundle is here just in time for Thanksgiving! It includes an engage “anchoring phenomena” activity with a sample key. This anchoring phenomena involves a video of a turkey making gobbling sounds and questions that have students thinking carefully about the turkey’s behavior. The students also come up with their own questions that they have about turkeys after watching the video and they explore in detail one of the questions. The explore activity in this bundle is a mini poster project that allows students to take learning into their own hands by exploring a question that interests them regarding turkeys. The goal of the mini poster project is to answer the question they developed in an informational and easy to understand manner.

Want a lab that will be the highlight of your students’ school year? Then you need to download this lab. Students are mesmerized by the reaction that takes place and they will ask you to repeat the lab over and over again. This lab activity can be used in the middle and high school classrooms. At the high school level, this lab activity teaches students about endothermic/exothermic reactions, as well as, identifying if a decomposition, synthesis, double replacement, etc. reaction took place. This lab comes with: a procedure observational and thinking questions a teacher’s key a pdf and word version NGSS Chemistry Alignment NGSS.HS-PS3-4 NGSS.HS-PS3-2 NGSS.HS-PS1-4 NGSS.HS-PS1-5

Get your students excited about climate change, methane gas, and pollution with this interesting article and student questions. Students in their day-to-day lives do not think about cows and the possible harms they contribute to the planet. After reading the article and answering the questions, students will never look at cows or order a hamburger the same way again! This product in pdf and word form comes with: the article student questions answer key to student questions NGSS Chemistry Alignment NGSS.HS-ESS3-2 NGSS.HS-ESS3-6 NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

Introduce students to equilibrium with this cool lava lamp lab! The students absolutely enjoy making lava lamps and love trying to figure out how equilibrium relates to this cool experiment! They will ask you to repeat this experiment again and again and again! When you download this file . . . you receive it in pdf and word form you receive an answer key you get picture examples of students completing the lab so that you can have a clearer idea of how to carry out this lab activity with your own students This lab aligns with NGSS Chemistry. NGSS.HS-PS1-6

Students put their artistic and creative skills to use when they develop a children’s book on Conservation, Reducing, and Recycling and their relation to climate change. The pdf document comes with a description of the Children’s Book Mini Project, the requirements, and several student examples of books created. The best part about this project is its alignment to NGSS. It could be used in a high school chemistry class during the climate change unit or could it could be used as an Earth Day project. The possibilities are endless!

You made a smart decision clicking on the Ocean Acidification Poster Project! This poster project has been tried with high schools students in two various schools and it works really well in getting them to research in depth what ocean acidification is. They find it really fun and it puts learning into their own hands. Students choose from a list of topics or they could choose a topic of their own and they describe how jelly fish, for example, are affected by ocean acidification in the form of an informational poster. This project will take about two class periods for students to work on and one class period to present their posters. When you download this file you will receive: poster project description checklist requirements rubric sample poster examples high school students have created The best part about this project is how it is aligned with NGSS Chemistry. NGSS.HS-ESS3-5 NGSS.HS-ESS3-6 Warning: I ask that if another colleague in your school is interested in this poster project to direct them to my TES page and to please not give them your copy of the poster requirements and rubric. Thank you!

This exit-slip is a quick way to assess how well the students understand the lesson. It could be used in any subject with any topic in any grade level. The exit-slip has students explain which topics they understand really well, which topics they somewhat understand, and which topics they are completely lost on. They also outline what steps they will take to ensure they are very comfortable with all of the topics covered in the lesson.

Your students will love this assignment! They get to listen to different genres of their choosing and see how their heart rate changes in the process to learn more about homeostasis.

Finally a collection of activities and lessons that will interest students and get them excited about chemistry! This lesson is formatted using the 5E’s. Students begin with an anchoring phenomena that involves watching a time-lapse video of cookies getting baked. They then model the stages a cookie goes through when it’s getting baked. Next, students watch a video that explains the science behind baking cookies and they answer questions on the video. Afterwards, they look at two cookie recipes and apply what they learned about baking cookies. Finally, students answer two exit-slip questions that tie together what they learned. Wow! All of these activities and questions in one document which is available in pdf and word form. There’s more. You also get a key which is available in pdf and word form. Your students will thank you for choosing an exciting topic to teach them about food chemistry!

Just in time for Thanksgiving, this mini poster activity allows students to take learning into their own hands by exploring a question that interests them regarding turkeys. The goal of the mini poster project is to answer the question they developed in an informational and easy to understand manner. Attention- This poster project goes hand-in-hand with the Turkey Anchoring Phenomena activity found on my TES store. Complete the anchoring phenomena activity first before moving onto this poster project.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, this anchoring phenomena with a sample key involves a video of a turkey making gobbling sounds and questions that have students thinking carefully about the turkey’s behavior. The students also come up with their own questions that they have about turkeys after watching the video and they explore in detail one of the questions. This leads us to the Turkey Informational Poster Mini Project found on my TES store. Be sure to check it out as both the turkey anchoring phenomena and informational poster go hand-in-hand together.

This lesson plan is complete with NGSS standards, an anchoring phenomena, a purpose, learning objectives. It is written using the 5E’s (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate). The lesson plan is very detailed and you will find the necessary worksheets and other instructional materials needed for this lesson on my online store (see below). Instructional Materials Needed for Lesson: Anchoring Phenomena - Decomposition Sheet NGSS Decomposition Modeling Activity NGSS - Designing and Investigating Factors Affecting Decomposition Rate Rotting Pumpkin Lab Presentation Rubric Food Preservation Methods Worksheet

This worksheet is part of a unit plan on decomposition (see below note). Students research various methods used to preserve food. They then choose the method they find the most interesting and elaborate on how the method works. They also include an illustration of the method. Note: It is recommended that you complete with your students the anchoring phenomena activity, modeling activity, and the lab before moving onto this “Elaborate” activity.