These 425 Science Lesson Starter Questions cover every topic and sub-topic in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Middle School Science topics. These questions can serve as inspiration for full lessons, can be used to supplement existing materials you may have and give a different method of engaging with the content that students must cover in NGSS Middle School Sciences. WHAT’S INCLUDED: 125 Physical Science Lesson Starter Questions in Google Slides format (separated by standards) - and PDF format 125 Physical Science Lesson Starter Questions in Google Docs format (separated by standards) - and PDF format 50 Engineering Design Lesson Starter Questions in Google Slides format (25 of these include activities that are associated with that question to support learning) - and PDF format 50 Engineering Design Lesson Starter Questions in Google Docs format (25 of these include activities that are associated with that question to support learning) - and PDF format 125 Earth & Space Sciences Lesson Starter Questions in Google Slides format (separated by standards) - and PDF format 125 Earth & Space Sciences Lesson Starter Questions in Google Docs format (separated by standards) - and PDF format 125 Biology Lesson Starter Questions in Google Slides format (separated by standards) - and PDF format 125 Biology Lesson Starter Questions in Google Docs format (separated by standards) - and PDF format POSSIBLE USES: Use these to start lessons with a specific goal in mind Great for those students who finish early and could use more time and room for exploration on a given topic These starter can inspire new lessons or different ways of teaching the content Students could use these questions for an inquiry project of their own COVERED STANDARDS: MS.Structures and Properties of Matter MS.Chemical Reactions MS.Forces and Interactions MS.Energy MS.Waves and Electromagnetic radiation MS.Structure, Function, and Information Processing MS.Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems MS.Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems MS.Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms MS.Natural Selection and Adaptations MS.Space Systems MS.History of Earth MS.Earth’s Systems MS.Weather and Climate MS.Human Impacts MS. Engineering Design If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest All under the handle: The Teaching Astrophysicist

This set of science articles provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can supplement lessons. It is a set of articles with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable). WHY / WHEN TO USE: Useful for substitute (sub) teaching To extend students To increase scientific literacy in your class A weekly reading task Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast To inspire students on a particular topic Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from WHAT’S INCLUDED: 5 sets of 3 page Word doc teacher version with answers 5 sets of 2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes) 5 sets of 3 page PDF teacher version with answers 5 sets of 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so) More will be coming to cover other subjects and other topics, so please do keep an eye out for more science articles from The Teaching Astrophysicist! If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest All under the handle: The Teaching Astrophysicist

IB DP Physics - Topics 2, 3 and 4 - Projectile motion, Hookes Law, Thermal physics and Waves - A quartet of brief exploratory laboratory scripts using an online simulations which are ready to use in class as long as students have access to internet enabled devices. If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest All under the handle: The Teaching Astrophysicist

A bundle of the 2 projects for middle years students on some very broad and fantastic topics for student investigation. If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest All under the handle: The Teaching Astrophysicist

Simply, set and relax as these video companions will help make sure your students are paying attention throughout these videos, having a variety of questions throughout the length of the video. I have laboured long and hard to make these video companions as easy as possible to engage with and to be able to use for teachers of any kind, whether in school, higher education or home schooling, these can be great to keep students engaged and know they watched the material fully. For Veritasium: The video companions include: Astronomy related: Do you expand with the universe? Does planet 9 exist? Half the universe was missing… until now How one supernova measured the universe These are the asteroids to worry about Why gravity is NOT a force Why the speed of light can’t be measured How To Clean Up Space Junk Why Apollo Astronauts Trained in Nuclear Bomb Craters Non-Astronomy related: Can you swim in shade balls? How trees bend the laws of physics How Kodak exposed the Atomic bomb These pools support half the people on Earth Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir? States of matter How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work The Most Radioactive Places on Earth The bizarre behaviour of rotating bodies explained Flamethrower vs Aerogel Ice spikes explained Make plasma with grapes in the microwave Making liquid Nitrogen from scratch Misconceptions about heat I Waterproofed Myself With Aerogel! World’s Lightest Solid! For Minutephysics - the videos include: The Higgs Boson, Part I What if the Earth were Hollow? Why is it Dark at Night? Common Physics Misconceptions Is it Better to Walk or Run in the Rain? How Big is the Universe? MAGNETS: How do they work? What is Sea Level? Why is the Solar System Flat? How Modern Light Bulbs Work How to See Without Glasses Antimatter Explained This is Not a Rainbow How to Subtract By Adding How Long To Fall Through The Earth? Hitting the Sun is HARD Why It’s Impossible to Tune a Piano Will Batteries Power The World? | The Limits Of Lithium-ion The Unreasonable Efficiency of Black Holes The Brown Dwarf Debate Why Do Compressed Air Cans Get Cold? Our Ignorance About Gravity Einstein’s Biggest Blunder, Explained The Physics of Windmill Design Usage: The layout of these video companions are that there are both teacher and student versions of all of these documents. The teacher versions contain the solutions and the administrative information. The student versions contain only the questions and spaces for students to fill in the work. They are easy to use and all in PDF form, including one large ‘master file’ so you can see all the content in one broad sweep and see what video companion will work for you and your students easily. Disclaimer: This work is intended to be a course companion and is all original work based on supporting and aligning with the two hugely successful youtube series – Veritasium and Minutephyiscs. The hosts of these series are Derek Muller and Henry Reich. The respective rights and content are their own and below to Veritasium and Minutephysics and their owners. Further when Vertiasium / Minutephysics brings in additional youtubers and their brands such as Smartereveryday, SufficentlyAdvanced and others, their respective works and content is their own. This work is intended as an independent supplement which has been wholly and independently developed by The Teaching Astrophysicist for sale on TeacherspayTeachers and TES. If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest All under the handle: The Teaching Astrophysicist

Stars come in many kinds, in one and twos, our own star (the Sun), dead stars and dying stars. The universe gives incredible views of many different kinds of stars, so it is worth learning about these cosmic engines in this 6 article set. This set of 6 science articles provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can supplement lessons. It is a set of articles with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable). WHY / WHEN TO USE: Useful for substitute (sub) teaching To extend students To increase scientific literacy in your class A weekly reading task Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast To inspire students on a particular topic Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from WHAT’S INCLUDED: 6 sets of 3 page Word doc teacher version with answers 6 sets of 2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes) 6 sets of 3 page PDF teacher version with answers 6 sets of 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so) More will be coming to cover other subjects and other topics, so please do keep an eye out for more science articles from The Teaching Astrophysicist! If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! - All under the handle - The Teaching Astrophysicist Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest

This Joke of the Day resource contains 357 curated jokes for all ages and students will love! There are SO many benefits to telling jokes in the classroom. Joke telling can strengthen vocabulary, help review figurative language, teach multiple word meanings, build social skills, and make the classroom a more fun and enjoyable place in general! WHAT’S INCLUDED: 357 Unique Curated Jokes 7 sets with Powerpoint format 7 sets of Printable mix n match Word Doc format 7 sets of PDF format for slides and for printable POSSIBLE USES: Incorporate into morning meeting routine Use as brain breaks Print out the slides and post or display on the whiteboard daily Use in your daily announcements If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest All under the handle: The Teaching Astrophysicist

Light, sound & thermal energy and concepts are some of the most interesting and broadly applicable physics concepts that students can study. These articles cover the Doppler effect, reflection and refraction and even the concept of hot and cold itself. This set of 5 science articles provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can supplement lessons. It is a set of articles with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable). WHY / WHEN TO USE: Useful for substitute (sub) teaching To extend students To increase scientific literacy in your class A weekly reading task Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast To inspire students on a particular topic Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from WHAT’S INCLUDED: 5 sets of 3 page Word doc teacher version with answers 5 sets of 2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes) 5 sets of 3 page PDF teacher version with answers 5 sets of 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so) More will be coming to cover other subjects and other topics, so please do keep an eye out for more science articles from The Teaching Astrophysicist! If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! - All under the handle - The Teaching Astrophysicist Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest

From static electricity, to electrical circuits to electricity generation and transmission. This little electrical bundle gives an excellent glimpse into the wonderful world of electrical science. This set of 4 science articles provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can supplement lessons. It is a set of articles with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable). WHY / WHEN TO USE: Useful for substitute (sub) teaching To extend students To increase scientific literacy in your class A weekly reading task Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast To inspire students on a particular topic Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from WHAT’S INCLUDED: 4 sets of 3 page Word doc teacher version with answers 4 sets of 2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes) 4 sets of 3 page PDF teacher version with answers 4 sets of 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so) More will be coming to cover other subjects and other topics, so please do keep an eye out for more science articles from The Teaching Astrophysicist! If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! - All under the handle - The Teaching Astrophysicist Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest

Motion & Forces are an integral part of our physical world, from gravity to the concept of weight, to momentum itself. There is so much forces and motion learning that can be done through the lens of physics. This set of 6 science articles provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can supplement lessons. It is a set of articles with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable). WHY / WHEN TO USE: Useful for substitute (sub) teaching To extend students To increase scientific literacy in your class A weekly reading task Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast To inspire students on a particular topic Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from WHAT’S INCLUDED: 6 sets of 3 page Word doc teacher version with answers 6 sets of 2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes) 6 sets of 3 page PDF teacher version with answers 6 sets of 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so) More will be coming to cover other subjects and other topics, so please do keep an eye out for more science articles from The Teaching Astrophysicist! If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! - All under the handle - The Teaching Astrophysicist Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest

This Joke of the Day resource contains 492 curated jokes for all ages and students will love! There are SO many benefits to telling jokes in the classroom. Joke telling can strengthen vocabulary, help review figurative language, teach multiple word meanings, build social skills, and make the classroom a more fun and enjoyable place in general! WHAT’S INCLUDED: 492 Unique Curated Jokes 11 sets with Powerpoint format 11 sets of Printable mix n match Word Doc format 11 sets of PDF format for slides and for printable POSSIBLE USES: Incorporate into morning meeting routine Use as brain breaks Print out the slides and post or display on the whiteboard daily Use in your daily announcements If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest All under the handle: The Teaching Astrophysicist

The Solar system is an incredible place to learn about from The Sun itself to planetary rings, to dwarf planets on the fringes of where we live in our galactic bubble. So diving into the content with this 6 article set seems like a great idea! This set of 6 science articles provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can supplement lessons. It is a set of articles with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable). WHY / WHEN TO USE: Useful for substitute (sub) teaching To extend students To increase scientific literacy in your class A weekly reading task Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast To inspire students on a particular topic Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from WHAT’S INCLUDED: 6 sets of 3 page Word doc teacher version with answers 6 sets of 2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes) 6 sets of 3 page PDF teacher version with answers 6 sets of 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so) More will be coming to cover other subjects and other topics, so please do keep an eye out for more science articles from The Teaching Astrophysicist! If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! - All under the handle - The Teaching Astrophysicist Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest

Looking to the cosmos has never been so enjoyable with this batch of 6 fantastic comprehensive short form articles with answers. From looking for aliens to understanding dark matter and dark energy a little better. This small bundle has you covered. This set of 6 science articles provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can supplement lessons. It is a set of articles with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable). WHY / WHEN TO USE: Useful for substitute (sub) teaching To extend students To increase scientific literacy in your class A weekly reading task Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast To inspire students on a particular topic Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from WHAT’S INCLUDED: 6 sets of 3 page Word doc teacher version with answers 6 sets of 2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes) 6 sets of 3 page PDF teacher version with answers 6 sets of 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so) More will be coming to cover other subjects and other topics, so please do keep an eye out for more science articles from The Teaching Astrophysicist! If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! - All under the handle - The Teaching Astrophysicist Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest

This bundle is perfect for students looking to work on their middle school and high school level astronomy. The main focus of this bundle is IGCSE / GCSE level learning including video companions, jokes (of course!), word problems and lesson starter and inspiration questions. WHAT’S INCLUDED: 125 Earth & Space Science Lesson Starter Questions | NGSS Middle School 303 Astronomy word problems with solutions | IGCSE | GCSE | O-level aligned Astronomy Joke a day | Astronomy joke a week | 32 hilarious jokes | Printable Crash Course Astronomy Video Companions | 46 video question companions Veritasium Video companions - Astronomy related POSSIBLE USES: Incorporate into morning meeting routine Use as brain breaks Print out the slides and post or display on the whiteboard daily Use in your daily announcements Use for problem practice Use for revision Use as inspiration for learning and lesson development If you have any questions, please feel to DM me on instagram @theteachingastrophysicist Let’s Connect! Be sure to follow my: ★ Blog ★ Instagram ★ Linkedin ★ Pinterest All under the handle: The Teaching Astrophysicist