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
Number Patterns: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their math and number skills. An answer key is provided.
Students must identify the rule and the next number in a numbered series pattern. Problems involve addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
Do a search for my other Math Task Cards:
♦ Ages 6-9:
Addition
Arrays
Balancing Equations
Coins
Estimating Sums
Expanded Form
Fact Families
Greater Than Less Than
Long Division
Missing Addends
Multiplication Word Problems
Number Bonds Word Problems
Skip Counting
Subtraction
Telling Time
♦ Ages 9-11:
Balancing Equations
Capacity
Comparing Decimals
Decimals
Elapsed Time
Expanded Form
Exponents
Fact Families
Factors & Multiples
Fractions
Fractions on a Number Line
Greater Than Less Than
Greatest Common Factors
Least Common Multiple
Long Division
Mean, Median, Mode, & Range
Metric Measurement
Mixed Numbers
Multiplication
Number Patterns
Order of Operations
Percents
Place Value
Prime & Composite Numbers
Prime Factorization
Probability
Properties of Mult.
Rounding
Word Problems
♦ Ages 11-14:
Customary Measurements
Fractions: Add & Sub, Decimals, & Percents
Fractions: Equivalent & Reducing Fractions
Greater Than Less Than
Improper Fractions & Mixed Numbers
Integers
Operations with Fractions
Rational Numbers
Ratios
Simple Interest
♦ Geometry:
3D Shapes
Angle Pair Relationships
Area of a Circle & Composite Figures
Circumference of a Circle
Missing Angles
Perimeter
Polygons
Pythagorean Theorem
Quadrilaterals
Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms
Volume & Surface Area of Cylinders
Volume of Cones, Rectangular Prisms, & Triangular Prisms
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
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.
Layers of the Earth Lapbook: This lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each layer of the earth and write what they find on the provided blank lines. This lapbook also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in each layer. A completed lapbook with answers is included.
Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page)
This layers of the Earth lapbook contains the following:
1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook
2. Completed facts for each layer:
Inner core, Outer core, Lower mantle, Upper mantle, Crust
3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each layer of the Earth
4. Check out the preview for more details
***** 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
This crossword puzzle on natural disasters 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:
♦ Blizzard
♦ Dust Storm
♦ Earthquake
♦ Flood
♦ Hurricane
♦ Landslide
♦ Natural Disaster
♦ Tornado
♦ Tsunami
♦ Tsunami
♦ Volcano
♦ Wildfire
This word search on the er, ir, and ur vowel team also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Church
♦ Dirt
♦ Fern
♦ Herb
♦ Herd
♦ Nurse
♦ Perch
♦ Shirt
♦ Skirt
♦ Spur
♦ Stir
♦ Surf
These task cards are a great way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of speed, velocity and acceleration.
This product contains 24 cards; half of the questions has students identifying different scenarios as either being an example of speed, velocity or acceleration. The other half of the questions are word problems that has students calculate speed, velocity or acceleration. A recording sheet and an answer key are included. Blank cards are also included for questions to be added, if wanted.
This tarsia puzzle is a great way for students to review their skills with double and triple digit addition and subtraction. The solution to the puzzle is included.
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with telling time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, five minutes and minute.
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
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with converting between moles, mass, and molecules.
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
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge of force and motion. 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
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
This bundle includes all of the anatomy escape rooms listed below.
Important: All these products sell for $55; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $35!
Each escape room has 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
This math maze is a great way for students to practice their skills with 2 digit and 1 digit addition with and without regrouping, set in a fun Halloween theme.
This maze is a great way for students to practice their skills with 3 digit by 1 digit division, which includes remainders. The solution to the puzzle is included.
This tarsia puzzle is a great way for students to review their skills with 3 Digit by 1 Digit division without remainders. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Constellations of the Zodiac PowerPoint and Flash Cards: Students will learn the science behind the zodiac signs, why their sign is their sign (and why it really isn't), the myths about their sign, and how well it can be seen in the sky!
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Important:
This product includes my Constellation of the Zodiac Flash Cards/ Wall Cards
AND Zodiac Constellations Wheel Dial.
Both paid items, which are included in this product as an extra ♦FREE Bonus!♦
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This PowerPoint on The Constellations of the Zodiac can be used for any Elementary, Middle, or High School science class/grade. The purpose of this PowerPoint is to summarize key facts and the mythology surrounding each of the Zodiac Constellations.
On average this presentation should run approximately 15 to 35 minutes of class time (depending on the amount of note-taking) and is meant to either introduce or reinforce concepts.
The PowerPoint first introduces what the Zodiac is, gives some history explaining why someones sign is their sign, and outlines facts about each constellation. Each constellation slide contains the following information:
♦ A. The constellations Latin meaning & symbol
♦ B. The Greek/ other mythological story behind the constellation
♦ C. The number of major stars & number of exoplanets found
♦ D. The ability to see the constellation in the night sky.
♦ E. Pictures of the stars and their relative positions within the constellation (connected with lines)
There are 15 slides (excluding the title slide) on this PowerPoint which contain the following titles:
♦ The Zodiac
♦ The History of the Zodiac
♦ Truth about the Zodiac Constellations (with a Bill Nye video)
♦ Capricornus
♦ Aquarius
♦ Pisces
♦ Aries
♦ Taurus
♦ Gemini
♦ Cancer
♦ Leo
♦ Virgo
♦ Libra
♦ Scorpius
♦ Sagittarius
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge with the immune system.
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 bundle includes all of the escape rooms listed below.
Important: All these products sell for $65; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $42!
Each escape room has 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
♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Important Note: Each topic utilizes the same types of puzzles
Included Topics:
♦ Adjectives
♦ Adverbs
♦ Apostrophes
♦ Appositives
♦ Collective Nouns
♦ Commas
♦ Contractions
♦ Helping Verbs
♦ Parts of Speech
♦ Plural Nouns
♦ Prepositions
♦ Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
♦ Verbs