The Rainbow lab is an excellent first day activity for secondary students who have lab experience. The students have to follow instructions, measure liquids, use glassware and follow safety procedures.

This Christmas greeting card activity comes with three different student worksheets and three different sets of elements to create a Christmas greeting card. Excellent activity for after fall finals or on crazy days where students are full of energy. Each card design has been assigned a symbol so you will know which card the students should assemble. You can also choose to only use one design. For students who do not celebrate Christmas the Snowman can be used. I have included a key for the student worksheets and a teacher guide that has pictures of the finished product.

This is a color memory game focused on cells. Students need to match the picture and word with the definition. This is an excellent PAP or AP Biology activity as well. Cell organelles, states of osmosis, four eukaryotic kingdoms, two prokaryotic kingdoms and specialized cells are covered. There are 42 pairs for a total of 84 cards. You can make smaller games to best suit your class needs. It can also be used to make studying flashcards. The cards are square and saved as a pdf. By adjusting your page count per printed page you can adjust the size of your cards. I suggest laminating them and keeping them year after year. I use one set per lab table. So I printed 7 sets. You can have the students compete within a single table or between groups. These are the pairs in the memory game: General Animal Cell General Plant Cell General Fungus Cell General Protist Cell (euglena) Nucleus Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum Lysosome Peroxisome Ribosome Golgi Apparatus Flagella Cilia Microvilli Special Animal Cells (4 pairs) Animal and Plant Osmosis cells (6 pairs) Special Plant Cells (3 pairs) Special Fungus cells (2 pairs) Special Protist cells (3 pairs) Prokaryotes (2 pairs) Sex cells Endocytosis and exocytosis * I have a black and white cell memory game available in a separate listing.

Electron configuration and orbital diagrams can be very difficult for students. This fold-out foldable presents the main components with practice problems. This is a useful foldable that students can continuously review while working on electron configuration and orbital diagrams.

Cell membrane power point. Goes over the main function of the cell membrane and its components such as peripheral proteins, glycocalyx, integral proteins, bilipid layer, cholesterol, etc. Students will understand the components of the cell membrane, how it is built from a mosaic of biomolecules and how it allowed life to begin.

The Periodic Table Bundle contains an informative power point, Periodic Table graphic organizer for INB, and a scavenger hunt for the 118 element Periodic Table. POWER POINT: This Periodic Table and Periodicity Power Point covers the historical development of the Periodic Table, the types of elements found on it, the categories of the elements, and the periodic trends of electronegativity, atomic radii, ionic radii and ionization energy. (43 slides) GRAPHIC ORGANIZER FOR INB This Periodic Table Graphic Organizer is designed for Interactive notebooks in a secondary science class.Students will look at the different parts of the periodic table and list the characteristics of metals, nonmetals and metalloids (semi-metals). Students will color a 118-element periodic table according to groups such as Alkaline metals, Halogens and nonmetals.Students will also cover periodic trends such as electronegativity, atomic radii, ionic radii and ionization.( 4 student pages, 4 page teacher key plus instructions.) PERIODIC TABLE SCAVENGER HUNT This is a great worksheet for getting to know the periodic table. The worksheet covers all 118 elements. I included a FREE downloadable periodic table that I used in making the scavenger hunt. This scavenger hunt is excellent in informing the students of how certain elements got their names and where groups are found. Two page student pages. Teacher key included. ACTIVITY The students will be organizing good and evil characters from pop culture. This is a Periodic Activity to allow students to experience and simulate what it is like to organize a group of subjects based on properties. This is an excellent Halloween activity for secondary science! Some of the properties have periodic trends, while other do not. Students will be organizing good and evil pop culture characters based on their Altruistic score, Malicious score, Fatality score, Jovial score and Intellect score. There are other properties the students can use as well by analyzing the character tiles. There are a total of 63 character tiles. Student need to use ALL 63.

The Periodic Table Bundle contains an informative power point, Periodic Table graphic organizer for INB, and a scavenger hunt for the 118 element Periodic Table. POWER POINT: This Periodic Table and Periodicity Power Point covers the historical development of the Periodic Table, the types of elements found on it, the categories of the elements, and the periodic trends of electronegativity, atomic radii, ionic radii and ionization energy. (43 slides) GRAPHIC ORGANIZER FOR INB This Periodic Table Graphic Organizer is designed for Interactive notebooks in a secondary science class. Students will color a 118-element periodic table according to groups such as Alkaline metals, Halogens and nonmetals.Students will also cover periodic trends such as electronegativity, atomic radii, ionic radii and ionization.( 4 student pages, 4 page teacher key plus instructions.) PERIODIC TABLE SCAVENGER HUNT This is a great worksheet for getting to know the periodic table. The worksheet covers all 118 elements. I included a FREE downloadable periodic table that I used in making the scavenger hunt. This scavenger hunt is excellent in informing the students of how certain elements got their names and where groups are found. Two page student pages. Teacher key included.

This Cryptozoology Dichotomous Key is a great secondary science Halloween activity or end of year wrap up when the AP Biology or state exams finish. We all know how antsy high school students get when Halloween comes around. You can keep them entertained with taxonomy over monsters, beasts, mythological creatures and strange diseases. This dichotomous key is a mixture of reality and myth. Students are given 25 organisms they need to identify. I also included two suggestions for extension activities. I usually use this as a cooperative lesson with my students paired up so they can work the dichotomous key together. I upload the power point to the class website and have my students work with a partner on a laptop.It is a lot of fun to hear them talk about each situation using educational dialogue. This is also a good activity for flipped classrooms. If you do not have a set of classroom laptops or ipads you can also print the power point slides and place small groupings around the room and turn it into a centers activity. You could also print the slides out as class sets.

Electron Configuration is covered in detail explaining Quantum numbers and how they relate to each other. This Power Point is designed for secondary science courses and includes practice problems within the power point with answers. Standard electron configuration, noble gas configurations and the electron configurations of ions are all covered and include practice problems. Orbital diagrams are explained with practice problems. There is a student handout included that has the slide number and problems on it so students can work the problems out along with the power point presentation. The handout is one page front and back.

It is important to promote writing across the disciplines. Sometimes it is difficult to come up with writing prompts. These task cards are specific to secondary science and they cover DNA processes such as DNA replication, transcription, translation, protein synthesis, exons and introns. There are also writing prompts which ask specifically about the organelles and molecules involved. The prompts are in pdf file format or power point and by adjusting the page settings during printing you can print 6 or more / less prompts per page. This activity can be used as a bell ringer, pop quiz or closing. It is a good exercise to make the brief students write longer and the novel writers write shorter answers. There are 30 writing prompts with instructions as to how many sentences they should write. You can edit the power point file to adjust the sentence requirements.

The RNA Power point chronologically presents the properties of RNA as they were discovered. The differences of the structure of ribose and deoxyribose and the differences between DNA and RNA nucleotides. Students will learn how to transcribe DNA into RNA and the function of the three types of RNA: messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA. The RNA foldable covers the same topics and can be easily taught along side the power point or separately. It only requires one sheet of paper and easily fits into a composition notebook or spiral notebook. Excellent introductory lessons for DNA processes, DNA replication, and protein synthesis.

The students will be organizing good and evil characters from pop culture. This is a Periodic Activity to allow students to experience and simulate what it is like to organize a group of subjects based on properties. This is an excellent Halloween activity for secondary science! Some of the properties have periodic trends, while other do not. Students will be organizing good and evil pop culture characters based on their Altruistic score, Malicious score, Fatality score, Jovial score and Intellect score. There are other properties the students can use as well by analyzing the character tiles. There are a total of 63 character tiles. Student need to use ALL 63. If they need to, they can add unknown character tiles as well and predict the traits an unknown character could have based on their placement in the Periodic Table. There are many different arrangements the students could potentially arrive at. I included three examples of possible arrangements. I require the student groups to use at least two properties to set up their tables. The students will mount the table unto a poster board and explain in writing on the board the reason for the set up and use arrows and color to show the periodic trends, groupings and trends within the periodic trends. The students are not constrained to only use a square to rectangle configuration. They are able to choose which ever arrangement they would like as long as it makes sense and can be successfully explained.

The Biomes & Ecosystem Power point, Graphic Organizer, and Word Wall Coloring Sheets Bundle has tons of information and with the Word wall coloring sheets for reinforcements. The Biomes & Ecosystems Power Point is packed with information starting with foundation vocabulary such as biotic, abiotic, climate, microclimate, and precipitation. Next, all five biomes are introduced. AS each one is presented, the ecosystems which fall under the biome is also discussed with identifying characteristics. I have also included a presentation on the cave ecosystem. The Biomes & Ecosystem power point and foldable are designed to be taught together. You can review the power point slides while having your students fill in the notes followed by a brief class discussion. The Biomes & Ecosystems Fold-out Foldable is a great way to present the characteristics and vocabulary of the variety of living systems on earth and then place into interactive notebooks. The foldable begins with an overview of basic biome and ecosystem vocabulary such as biodiversity, carrying capacity, ecological niche, and microclimate. The centers of the foldables have dedicated spaces for notes on the five biomes including the ecosystems found within the biomes.There is also a section specifically for cave ecosystems. For your special needs students, students with visual impairments, or handwriting difficulties I have included a modified fill in the blank version. There are two sets of teacher’s notes, one in red ink and the other in black ink. If you have students with an IEP which requires them to have a copy of teacher notes, the black ink notes come in handy. They are also good for students who have lost their glasses or were absent. Coloring pages have recently become a huge hit all over the world. In my new series of word wall coloring pages, you can bring the excitement of coloring into your middle school and high school science classrooms.This set includes the words: biome, forest, tundra, desert, grassland, and aquatic. You will find using a word wall will truly help your students to remember their vocabulary words and seeing them displayed all the time in class makes it easier for them to refresh their memory when necessary.

Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are the two of the most vital biological chemical reactions which sustain life. In this presentation, the importance and steps of each process are carefully outlined with guided diagrams for increased student understanding. Students will also see how the process connect with ecological pyramids. Anaerobic processes of lactic acid fermentation and alcohol fermentation are included. Teacher-led PowerPoint presentation with differentiated guided note foldables for students to fill out during the lesson. Foldables are designed for interactive notebooks to easily fit into composition notebooks or spiral ring notebooks. One side is dedicated to photosynthesis while the other is dedicated to cellular respiration. Basic vocabulary terms and the steps of the chemical reaction including anaerobic processes are included. 17 Word wall coloring sheets to reinforce photosynthesis and cellular respiration terms and processes. Each sheet has space for students to write the definition, examples, nonexamples and a sentence using the word.

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The History of Atomic Theory, Atomic Structure, Isotopes and Atomic Mass are presented in three different sections of this power point with. You can see the different sections by the change in colors. You will go through the scientists and experiments which contributed to the synthesis of the Atomic theory. The next section will go over the parts of the atom. The last section will review isotopes and atomic mass. Students will also learn how the masses on the Periodic Table where calculated. The Atom Fold-Out Foldable is designed for secondary science courses. The anatomy of the atom is covered including valence electrons, energy levels, isotopes and ions. The Bohr diagram and Lewis Dot structure are reviewed. Students will also see what happens to an atom when the number of protons, neutrons and electrons are changed. I have included assembly instructions which is extremely simple and the teacher's key.

Electromagnetic Spectrum and Energy Power Point The power point covers the electromagnetic spectrum, light, photons, waves and their characteristics. the relationship between frequency, wavelength, and the speed of light are introduced with the formula for speed of light. Calculating the energy of the electromagnetic waves is also covered with introduction to Planck's constant and the energy formula derived using the constant. How we see light is presented along with slides for each type of electromagnetic ray and how they can affect human health. I also have a slide on cosmic rays since they have the most energy of all electromagnetic rays. Electromagnetic Spectrum Graphic Organizer (with energy and light formulas) The fold-out foldable covers the electromagnetic spectrum, light, photons, waves and their characteristics. The relationship between frequency, wavelength, and the speed of light are introduced with the formula for speed of light. Calculating the energy of the electromagnetic waves is also covered with introduction to Planck's constant and the energy formula derived using the constant. Electromagnetic Spectrum: Eight Types of Waves 1 pg Foldable This one page foldable has eight flaps for a description of radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma and cosmic rays. There are illustrations, instructions and a key included. Visible Light Spectrum: Speed of Light, Planck's Constant, Energy of Light In this worksheet students will use a visible light spectrum chart to calculate the wavelength of different colors of light. Then using the light equation and speed of light the students will figure out the frequency for each color. In the next step, students will use the frequency and Planck's constant in order to calculate the energy each color of light carries. Students will also need to color the spectrum. I have mine work out their calculations on a separate sheet of notebook paper and turn it in attached to their charts. I have included an answer sheet so you can see what the final should look like. For my younger students I give them the color wavelengths. For my physics students I have them use the chart and figure the wavelengths out on their own. I use this in both Chemistry and Physics.