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
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
Thank you to Teachers Resource Force who provided the images
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge with Lewis dot structures.
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 lapbook on the organs of the respiratory system is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each organ and write what they find on the provided blank lines. A completed lapbook with answers is included.
Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page)
Contents:
1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook
2. Completed facts for each term:
Pharynx, Larynx, Trachea, Lungs, Alveoli, Diaphragm, Paranasal Sinuses, Cilia
3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts
Water Cycle: This water cycle crossword puzzle is a fun vocabulary review on the water cycle for students and contains the following:
1. Blank Version without word bank
2. Blank Version with word bank
3. Answer Key
4. Vocabulary Words:
♦ Aquifer
♦ Atmosphere
♦ Cloud
♦ Condensation
♦ Evaporation
♦ Groundwater
♦ Ocean
♦ Precipitation
♦ Runoff
♦ Sun
♦ Surface Water
♦ Transpiration
♦ Water Cycle
♦ Water Vapor
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 breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with arithmetic and reading comprehension.
Contents:
♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ
♦ 3 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, and 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 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
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with roman numerals. Problems include numbers up to 1,000: The vast majority of questions are between 1-200.
Contents:
♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ
♦ 3 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, and 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 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.
Ratios: These ratios cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with ratios. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
Ratios Cootie Catchers Contents:
There are 2 cootie catchers in this product, each one having 8 problems for a total of 16 problems. Each cootie catcher has problems which involve equivalence, word problems, reducing ratios, and determining ratios from patterns. Answers to each problem are included.
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♦ Grades 1-3:
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
♦ Grades 3-5:
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
♦ Grades 6-8:
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
♦ Algebra:
Absolute Value
Combining Like Terms
Distributive Property
Equations
Evaluating Expressions
Inequalities
Linear Equations
Polynomials
Proportions
Quadratic Equations
Scientific Notation
Simplifying Expressions
Slope
System of Equations
Two Step & Multi Step Equations
Writing Expressions
This crossword puzzle on forms of energy 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:
♦ Chemical Energy
♦ Conduction
♦ Convection
♦ Elastic Energy
♦ Electrical Energy
♦ Energy
♦ Friction
♦ Heat
♦ Kinetic Energy
♦ Nuclear Energy
♦ Potential Energy
♦ Radiation
♦ Sound Energy
♦ Temperature
♦ Thermal Energy
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 knowledge of atomic structure. 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
Dog Breeds Interactive Identification Game: This 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 the different types of dog breeds.
The students are to pick a dog breed they like to begin the "game" or lesson. The students are then presented with questions about the dog breeds such as: does the dog have a long or short coat of hair? Does the dog have long or stocky legs? Does the dog have dropped or erect ears? etc.
After clicking the correct button, only the dogs with the chosen characteristics are left on the screen. Additional questions are asked until the correct dog is chosen.
This PowerPoint can be used in many different ways:
*Teaching young children about different dog breeds
*Teaching young and older children about dog characteristics
*Teaching older children about dichotomous keys
Important Note: This interactive works when in SlideShow mode
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge of the nitrogen cycle. 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
Dinosaurs: This dinosaurs Word Search also doubles as a coloring book!. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Dinosaurs Word Search/ Coloring Book contains the following Dinosaurs:
♦ Tyrannosaurus rex
♦ Stegosaurus
♦ Albertosaurus
♦ Iguanodon
♦ Triceratops
♦ Torosaurus
♦ Spinosaurus
♦ Kentrosaurus
♦ Velociraptor
♦ Apatosaurus
♦ Tanystropus
♦ Utahraptor
Thank you to Roly Poly Designs and Bioart who provided the images
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
This word search on the respiratory system includes the following vocabulary terms. The solution to the puzzle is included.
♦ Alveoli
♦ Bronchi
♦ Cilia
♦ Diaphragm
♦ Larynx
♦ Lungs
♦ Pharynx
♦ Sinuses
♦ Trachea