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
Biomes Lapbook: This Biomes lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each biome and write what they find on the provided blank lines. This lapbook also doubles as a
coloring book, as students may color in the picture of each biome. A completed biomes lapbook with answers is included.
Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page)
Biomes Lapbook Contents:
1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the biomes lapbook
2. Biomes included with completed facts:
Savannah, Grassland, Temperate forest, Taiga,
Tundra, Rainforest, Alpine, Desert
3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each biome
4. Check out the preview for more details
Thank you to The Lost Teacher and Educlips who provided the images
Do a search for my other Lapbooks in the folllowing topics:
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
Plate Tectonics: This plate tectonics lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each plate tectonics term 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)
Plate Tectonics Lapbook Contents:
1. How to Use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook
2. Plate tectonics vocabulary with completed facts:
Divergent boundary, Convergent boundary, Transform boundary,
Fault, Tectonic Plates, Hot Spot, Convection current, Volcano
3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each term
4. Check out the preview for more details
Do a search for my other Lapbooks in the folllowing topics:
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
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with solving combination and permutation problems.
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 cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about chemical and physical changes.
Changes Included:
♦ Explosion of fireworks - Chemical
♦ Ice melting - Physical
♦ Chopping wood - Physical
♦ Bread Molding - Chemical
♦ Sugar in water - Physical
♦ Glass breaking - Physical
♦ Burning wood - Chemical
♦ Rusting nail - Chemical
This tarsia puzzle is a great way for students to review their skills with improper fractions and mixed numbers. The solution to the puzzle is included.
This word search on silent e words (also known as silent e or bossy e) also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Cake
♦ Cave
♦ Flute
♦ Goose
♦ Kite
♦ Pie
♦ Robe
♦ Rose
♦ Shoe
♦ Skate
♦ Whale
♦ Whale
These task cards are a great way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of reflection and refraction of light.
This product contains 24 cards with multiple choice questions about reflection and refraction of light. 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.
Element, Compound and Mixture Flash Cards & PowerPoint: These cards fold in half so that students can write their responses on the front, and the back has the reason why explained using a picture.
These can also be used just by holding them up to an entire class as well.
These flash cards are also formatted for a PowerPoint Presentation if you wish to use it for an entire class (see Preview). So, there are two different files attached to this product:
1. Flash cards of Element Compound or Mixture
2. Same thing except in PowerPoint format
Students often have trouble identifying substances as an element compound or mixture. These printable interactive flash cards should help. The following elements, compounds, and mixtures are included in these flashcards:
Oxygen
Carbon dioxide
Sugar water
Chocolate chip cookie
Iron
Iced Tea
Rust
Orange Juice
Granite
Water
Pure Gold
14-karat gold
Carbon
Air
Helium
Salad
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with finding the equation of a line given a a graph, a point and slope, or two points.
Contents:
♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ
♦ 3 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Tarsia Puzzle, and Message Decoder
♦ 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 improving their paraphrasing skills.
This activity has students reading various fun trivia sentences about Science, History and the world in general to each other and then asked to paraphrase the sentences in their own words. Example paraphrased answers are included.
Example:
Original: Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one out of an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe.
Paraphrased: There are about 100 billion billion galaxies in the universe, which includes our Milky Way.
These task cards are a great way for students to improve their skills and knowledge on photosynthesis.
This product contains 24 cards with multiple choice questions about photosynthesis. 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 bundle on World War I includes all of the products listed below.
Important: All these products sell for $14; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $9!
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with negative exponent rules.
Contents:
♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ
♦ 3 Levels to decode: Maze Decoder, Tarsia Puzzle, and Message Decoder
♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key
♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Muscle Pathology PowerPoint: This PowerPoint on Muscle Pathology is geared to any High School Biology or Anatomy class/grade. The purpose of this PowerPoint is to summarize the important information and concepts about the Muscular System.
There are 6 slides (excluding the title slide) on this PowerPoint which contain the following titles:
Myopathy
Mitochondrial Myopathies
Myotonic Dystrophy
Tetany
Muscular Dystrophy
Signs of Muscular Dystrophy
Planets: This Dwarf Planets PowerPoint is meant to introduce students to the dwarf planets of our solar system. This lesson also explains why Pluto was declassified from being a planet to being a dwarf planet.
There are 5 dwarf planets and this PPT lesson has 54 slides which includes the following information:
♦ Where is it?
♦ What the planet's surface is like
♦ Composition of the atmosphere
♦ Temperature range
♦ Facts about its moons
♦ Year and Day
♦ Mythology behind the name
Order of Operations: These order of operations cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while they practice interpreting and solving order of operations. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
Order of Operations Cootie Catchers Contents:
There are 2 cootie catchers in this product, each one having 8 problems for a total of 16 problems. There are two versions of problems:
1. Students interpret and solve the expression of the equation based from written words.
2. Students solve the numerical equation
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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
Zoo Animals: This zoo animals word search also doubles as a coloring book!. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Zoo Animals Word Search/ Coloring Book Terms:
♦ Bear
♦ Camel
♦ Cheetah
♦ Dolphin
♦ Elephant
♦ Giraffe
♦ Gorilla
♦ Lion
♦ Monkey
♦ Peacock
♦ Tiger
♦ Walrus