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: hypothesis, experiment, constant, variable, data, research, and a blank document for student-designed words. Word Walls are an instructional tool used primarily in the elementary classroom. While teaching in Texas my administrators decided they wanted secondary teachers to use the tool as well. It was a great success on many levels. Students took time learning about their word and creating a design for it. I always displayed all the words and the students took great pride in seeing their work displayed. The students also enjoyed looking at each other’s work. I noticed over time that my students would frequently look at the wall while we working. Especially during pop quizzes or bell work. The word wall truly helped my students to remember their vocabulary words and seeing them displayed all the time in class made it easier for them to refresh their memory when necessary. Each word wall poster has a word wall art graphic that students can color. There is a designated box to write the scientific definitions, synonyms or examples, antonyms or nonexamples and space to write a sentence using the word. I developed word wall coloring pages for my students who struggled with what to draw and write when working on word walls. I always offer a blank template for my self-motivated artists, but the coloring pages allowed my students who struggle with a means for creating a beautiful piece of word wall art as well. My favorite way to use word walls includes after a test, to introduce new vocabulary in a relaxing format, sub work or as extra credit. They are also a fun way to revisit words student’s struggle with. In your file, you will receive the word wall word/words you purchased plus the blank template. Please feel free to tag me on Instagram (@MizzzFostersClass) to show off your students’ work.

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 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 is specific for secondary students because your students may need to do a little research into the meaning of Latin and Greek words, look up mythological beings and celestial bodies. This scavenger hunt is excellent in informing the students of how certain elements got their names and where groups are found. The Teacher Answer Key is included.

The Energy Brochure is a quick overview of energy for secondary science classes. The definition of energy, potential, kinetic and the six types of energy are covered. Students also need to fill in the Law for conservation of energy. this foldable is only one sheet of paper front and back photocopied. There is a place where it can be glued into an interactive notebook or composition notebook.

These worksheets test what the students learned about classifying matter as an element, compound, mixture and solution. Students have to compare and contrast pairs of relevant terms, identify substances according to their scientific classification and fill in a concept map about matter. The key is included. It is a great follow up to Elements, Compounds, Mixtures, Solutions Power Point

This one page graphic organizer covers eight evidences of chemical reactions; color change, odor change, temperature change, indicator change, gas formation, precipitate formation, composition change and the irreversibility of chemical reactions. The foldable is simple to photocopy front to back. The students have areas to draw examples they can relate too and the teacher key includes common instances of chemical reactions students will be able to identify with. The inside portion of the foldable has places for students to write descriptions and list examples of each type of chemical reaction evidence.

This is a one page foldable which is photocopied front to back. It gives students a overview of chemical reactions. The Law of Conservation of Matter / Mass, balancing chemical reactions, coefficients, subscripts , reactants and products are all covered. Students will be able to identify the parts of a chemical reaction and count atoms to make sure they are balanced for the reactant and product sides.

This is a ten problem multiple step set of calculating average atomic mass. In addition to solving for average atomic, students will calculate relative abundance percentages, and the actual mass of various isotopes. I have included a detailed teachers key which shows how each problem is solved.

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.

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 Chemistry: Classification of Matter. 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 31 writing prompts with instructions as to how many sentences they should write. You can adjust the pages per sheet setting to print multiple cards per sheets of paper.

This is a single page brochure foldable which covers introductory characteristics of waves. Students will define words such as amplitude, wavelength, crest, trough, frequency, period, velocity, line of equilibrium, compression, and rarefraction. Students will look at the period and wave equations and define the components. Students will also label the parts of a transverse wave train and longitudinal wave. This brochure can be easily glued into a composition notebook or spiral ring notebook. This is a simple one page foldable you photocopy front to back and have the students fold into a three section brochure. A detailed teacher's key is included.

This is an editable lab. Students will be given ten objects that they need to measure mass and volume for in order to calculate density. I based my lab from a set of ten density cubes that can be purchased from any physical science catalog. You can also find a collection of objects to use as long as you calculate the densities. I also created a file that has six density tables on it to reduce the number of copies needed. This lab only requires a scale, digital or manual, a beaker or graduated cylinder and ten objects of various materials. * You could also include the same materials for enrichment and understanding.

This brochure foldable is an excellent math foundation lesson going into gas laws. Students will look at diagrams depicting different gas pressures, learn about Dalton's Partial Pressure Law and how to solve for total pressure. Inside students will learn to convert gas pressure units; Atm, Psi, Torr, mmHg, Pa and kPa with 14 practice problems. A detailed teacher key is included with examples of how the equation should be set up.

The temperature conversion foldable works great for learning about temperature, thermodynamic units, gas laws and anywhere students need to convert between temperature units. The temperature units covered are Celsius, Kelvin and Fahrenheit. The brochure has places where students record notes, fill out a formula conversion table and have practice temperature conversion problems. The teacher key is detailed. This brochure can easily be glued into composition notebooks, spiral notebooks or placed into a folder.

It is often difficult to hold secondary science students' attention as we get closer to Christmas vacation. Use this Christmas themed dimensional analysis activity to review your students' calculation skills while keeping them engaged and in competition. Your students will need to help Santa and the elves move through a myriad of crazy problems brought to them through oversight, Krumpus and the Grinch. A student guide sheet and detailed teacher's key is included. There is also an additional "emergency problem" for the students to work through. There is a second student guide for students who have a hard time creating their own conversion statements.

Thanksgiving is a difficult time of year with students excited for vacation. Here is a great no-prep activity for secondary science students which will allow them to compete against each other and the clock while reviewing their skills solving problems using dimensional analysis. I love this activity because it keeps my students critically thinking and working together. In this problem set are seven multi-step problems with questions, a student guide sheet with some conversions and a detailed teacher's Key with how to set up the problems and the answers. Although geared towards Thanksgiving, this a great activity to brush up student math skills in Science any time of year!

This is a one sheet of paper foldable which covers the important properties of water: polarity, hydrogen bonds, adhesion, cohesion, chemical buffer and density anomaly. Excellent for AP and PAP Biology and Chemistry courses. Key and instructions included.

A new twist on a dimensional analysis (factor/ label method). This activity is for after you have taught dimensional analysis. Students need to apply the skills they learned to see if they can escape in time to avoid the incoming zombies. You can have the students compete individually or in groups and which ever individual or group gets the six problems correctly answered first is the winner. There is a worksheet for the students, a Zombie Survival Fact sheet with some conversions. The students will need to use the information given to make their own conversion statements. I have included a teachers key with equivalency statements and how to solve the problems step by step. Student worksheet (3 pages) Zombie Key (1 page) Teacher Key (3 pages)

This foldable covers six types of chemical reactions; synthesis. decomposition, single displacement, double displacement, combustion and acid / base reactions. Student sheet allows for definitions and student notes. The teacher key has the answers and is set up just like the student printable for ease of grading and checking notes. There is also a half page dichotomy key that students can use while they are classifying chemical reactions. It is is a series of yes / no questions that will guide the students to correctly labeling their chemical reactions.

The Gas Laws foldable starts with an overview of gas law specific vocabulary, a look at the relationships between gas pressure, temperature, volume and gas particles. There is a section for various gas constants based on pressure units. The inside of the foldable goes over the gas formulas for Boyle's Law, Charles Law, Gay-Lussac Law, Comined Gas Law, Avogadro's Law and Ideal Gas Law. Each gas law has an example problem that you can work with your students. The teacher's key is detailed with the steps on how to solve each problem including the temperature conversions to Kelvins.