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 test their skills with balancing chemical equations.
Contents:
♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ
♦ 3 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Tarsia Puzzle, and Message Decoder
♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key
♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Black History Month: This black history month word search celebrates the African American heroes throughout history. The solution to the puzzle is included.
This Word Search contains the following people:
♦ Booker T. Washington
♦ Coretta Scott King
♦ Dorothy Height
♦ Elijah McCoy
♦ Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman
♦ Frederick Douglass
♦ Harriet Tubman
♦ Lewis Latimer
♦ Malcolm X
♦ Marcus Garvey
♦ Martin Luther King Jr.
♦ Mary Seacole
♦ Maya Angelou
♦ Muhammad Ali
♦ Nelson Mandela
♦ Rosa Parks
♦ Ruby Bridges
♦ Sarah E. Goode
♦ Sojourner Truth
♦ Thurgood Marshall
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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.
These task cards are a great way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of plant adaptations.
This product contains 24 cards with multiple choice questions about the different types of plant adaptations. A recording sheet and an answer key are included. Blank cards are also included for questions to be added, if wanted. The same 24 cards are also available as open ended questions.
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
This word search on the structures of the heart includes the following vocabulary terms. The solution to the puzzle is included.
♦ Aorta
♦ Inferior Vena Cava
♦ Left Atrium
♦ Left Ventricle
♦ Pulmonary Artery
♦ Pulmonary Veins
♦ Right Atrium
♦ Right Ventricle
♦ Superior Vena Cava
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with adding and subtracting positive and negative integers.
Contents:
♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ
♦ 4 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, Tarsia Puzzle, Maze
♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key
♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Constellations, Stars, Galaxies & Nebula PowerPoint: Stop getting lost looking for stars & constellations! This lesson not only teaches about the stars & constellations, but how to find them too!
This PowerPoint on Locating Constellations, Stars, Galaxies and Nebula can be used for any Elementary, Middle, or High School science class/grade. The purpose of this PowerPoint is introduce students to many constellations, galaxies, and nebulae, and to show them how to find them in the sky, and give them information about them as well as their history and mythology.
On average this presentation should run approximately 3-5 days (45 minutes of class time per day) depending on the amount of note-taking and explanations and is meant to either introduce or reinforce concepts.
Important Note: The length of this PowerPoint can be short or long depending on which slides are being used. This PowerPoint covers most of the main constellations, stars, galaxies, and nebulae, so there should be something for whichever topic is being discussed.
Includes 98 Slides
Volcanoes:
This PowerPoint on Volcanoes can be used for any Late Elementary (If modified), Middle, or Early High School science class/grade. The purpose of this PowerPoint is to summarize key facts and information about the different types of volcanoes and lava.
On average this presentation on Volcanoes should run approximately 45 to 2 hours of class time (depending on the amount of note-taking, discussions and questions) and is meant to either introduce or reinforce concepts.
The PowerPoint first introduces what Volcanoes are, the different types of eruptions, lava, pyroclastic flows, and the different types of volcanoes. There are 28 slides (excluding the title slide) on this PowerPoint which contain the following titles:
What is Inside a Volcano?
Types of Volcanic Eruptions (non-explosive)
Types of Volcanic Eruptions (explosive)
The Types of Magma is Important (Water and Magma)
The Types of Magma is Important (Silica and Magma) - 2 Slides
What Erupts from a Volcano?
Whats the Difference Between Magma & Lava?
Viscosity of Lava
Types of Lava
Aa
Pahoehoe
Pillow Lava
Blocky Lava
Types of Pyroclastic Material
Volcanic Blocks
Volcanic Bombs
Lapilli
Volcanic Ash
Types of Volcanoes
Shield Volcanoes
Cinder Cone Volcanoes
Composite Volcanoes
Other Volcanic Features
Craters
Calderas
Lava Plateaus
Volcanic Lightning
Fragments and Run-Ons: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their ability to identify sentence fragments and run-on sentences.
This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify each as a sentence fragment, a run-on sentence, or a complete sentence. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Mythology: This mythology of the planets Power Point is a fun and interesting way to teach students about the history of the days of the week; and how the naming of the Sun, Moon, and Planets have roots in Greek, Roman and Germanic Mythologies.
There are 10 slides in this PowerPoint with the following Titles:
♦ Title Slide
♦ Etymology of Sunday
♦ Etymology of Monday
♦ Etymology of Tuesday
♦ Etymology of Wednesday
♦ Etymology of Thursday
♦ Etymology of Friday
♦ Etymology of Saturday
♦ March: Roman Mythology
♦ Gods, Planets, & Days of the Week
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge of plate tectonics. Full “Letter” sized cards as well as smaller sized cards are provided.
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
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge of independent variables, dependent variables, constants, and control groups the electromagnetic spectrum. Full “Letter” sized cards as well as smaller sized cards are provided.
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
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
Simple Machines: This simple machines accordion booklet 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 a description of each type of simple machine and list some examples on the provided blank lines. This booklet also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in each simple machine or draw in their own. A completed simple machines booklet with answers is included.
Simple Machines Accordion Booklet Contents:
1. Assembly Instructions for the simple machines booklet
2. Simple Machines Included:
Pulley, Inclined plane, Lever, Wheel and axle, Screw, Wedge
3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each simple machine
4. A smaller version of #1, 2, & 3 to fit smaller pieces of construction paper
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Space Science:
♦ The Solar System: The Planets
♦ Eclipses
♦ Comets, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites and Asteroids
♦ Life Cycle of Stars
♦ Constellations of the Zodiac
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
Scientific Method: These scientific method skittles labs are a fun way to have students learn about the scientific method.
Scientific Method Skittles Lab contents:
1. Skittle Colors Lab:
A. Question: Which color skittle is most common in a package of skittles?
B. Developing a hypothesis
C. Procedure
D. Data Tables
E. Graphing
F. Post-Lab Questions
2. Skittles Mass and Amount Lab
A. Question: How accurate are Skittles packages to one another in terms of mass and total
number of Skittles?
B. Developing a hypothesis
C. Procedure
D. Data and Analysis
E. Post-Lab Questions
Scientific Method: This scientific method fold and learn is a great way for students to learn and organize each step while following and conducting an actual science experiment which follows the scientific method.
Scientific Method Fold and Learn Contents: 6 pages:
1. Fold and learn in color
2. Fold and learn in black and white
3. Blank version for students to explain each stage OR use with an actual experiment (example experiment included)
4. Along with an experiment, students describe each stage
5. Answers for an example experiment: How does salt affect the boiling point of water.