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
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 breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with finding the angle and length of right triangles.
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 message decoder is a great way for students to practice their skills with 2 and 3 digit addition and subtraction with regrouping, themed for Christmas. The solution to the puzzle is included.
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 improve their skills and knowledge of plant and animal cell organelles and their functions. 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
These parts of speech cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different types of parts of speech.
Contents:
1. Students identify the part of speech from its definition
(an example sentence is given in the answer with the part of speech underlined)
2. Students identify each part of speech within a sentence
(The correct words are underlined in the answer section)
3. Students identify the part of speech from example words
The following parts of speech are used within this product:
Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections
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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
Water Cycle: This water cycle lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each stage of the water cycle and write what they find on the provided blank lines. This lapbook also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in each stage of the water cycle. A completed lapbook with answers is included.
Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page)
This water cycle lapbook contains the following:
1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook
2. Completed facts for each stage:
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Runoff, Transpiration
3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each water cycle stage
4. Check out the preview for more details
Thank you to Truthme who provided the images
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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
These task cards are a great way for students to practice their skills identifying the structures within cells and their functions.
This product contains 24 cards with multiple choice questions about the different cell organelles and structures and their functions. 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 test their knowledge of the different forms of energy. 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 practice their skills with prefixes and suffixes.
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 word search on the digestive system includes the following vocabulary terms. The solution to the puzzle is included.
♦ Esophagus
♦ Gallbladder
♦ Large Intestine
♦ Liver
♦ Mouth
♦ Pancreas
♦ Rectum
♦ Small Intestine
♦ Stomach
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge with the Trojan War as told within Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. This escape room focuses on the events of the Trojan War through the identification of the many figures involved.
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 word search on the oi and oy vowel team also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Boil
♦ Boy
♦ Coil
♦ Coin
♦ Enjoy
♦ Joint
♦ Oyster
♦ Royal
♦ Toilet
♦ Toy
♦ Voice
♦ Voyage
These task cards are a great way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of the digestive system.
This product contains 24 cards with multiple choice questions about the digestive system. 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.
Seasons:
Reasons for the Seasons PowerPoint: This lesson on the reason for the seasons incorporates easy to understand interactive/ animations, easy to understand analogies, and questions which keep students engaged while learning about the real reasons for the seasons.
This lesson contains 39 slides and should run a full class period or two to teach, and contains the following Slide Titles:
All slides have pictures and or moving animations explaining the concept
♦ Earth & Sun Size and Distance (2 slides)
♦ Earth's Orbit (2 slides)
♦ Earth's Axis (3 slides)
♦ Earth Around the Sun (2 slides)
♦ Earth's Tilt and the Seasons (2 slides)
♦ Punching a basketball - Direct light analogy (2 slides)
♦ Light Intensity Animation (2 slides)
♦ Skipping stone and falling stone - Direct light analogy (3 slides)
♦ Direct and Indirect Light Animation (2 slides)
♦ Earth's Axis and the Seasons (6 slides)
♦ Why the sun is high, medium or low in the sky (4 slides)
♦ Why the Sun never rises or sets on the North/ South Pole (8 slides)
This bundle includes all of the escape rooms listed below.
Important: All these products sell for $15; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $9!
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
This message decoder is a great way for students to practice their skills with equivalent ratios, themed for Christmas. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Balancing Equations: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with addition and balancing equations.
Each problem involves addition problems which has students calculate the missing number within the equation. An answer key is provided.
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♦ 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
Arrays: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice multiplication through arrays. An answer key is provided.
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