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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

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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
Adding and Subtracting Integers Escape Room
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Adding and Subtracting Integers Escape Room

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with adding and subtracting positive and negative integers. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 4 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, Tarsia Puzzle, Maze ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Cold War Crossword Puzzle
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Cold War Crossword Puzzle

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This crossword puzzle on the Cold War is a fun vocabulary review for students and contains the following: 1. Blank Version without word bank 2. Blank Version with word bank 3. Answer Key Vocabulary Words: ♦ Berlin Wall ♦ Communism ♦ Domino Theory ♦ Dwight Eisenhower ♦ George Marshall ♦ Harry Truman ♦ Iron Curtain ♦ John Kennedy ♦ Joseph Stalin ♦ Marshall Plan ♦ Mikhail Gorbachev ♦ NATO ♦ Nikita Khrushchev ♦ Ronald Reagan ♦ Space Race ♦ Warsaw Pact
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Scientific Method

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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
Prefixes and Suffixes
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Prefixes and Suffixes

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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
Making Predictions Task Cards
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Making Predictions Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with making inferences. A recording sheet and answer key is included. This activity has students reading 16 short passages to each other and then asked to make a prediction about what is most likely to happen next. Students are also asked to support their answers with details from the passage.
Endocrine System Crossword Puzzle
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Endocrine System Crossword Puzzle

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This crossword puzzle on the endocrine system is a fun vocabulary review for students and contains the following: 1. Blank Version without word bank 2. Blank Version with word bank 3. Answer Key Vocabulary Words: ♦ Adrenal Glands ♦ Hormones ♦ Hypothalamus ♦ Ovaries ♦ Pancreas ♦ Parathyroid ♦ Pineal Gland ♦ Pituitary Gland ♦ Testes ♦ Thyroid
Seasons
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Seasons

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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)
Human Body Systems Word Wall Cards
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Human Body Systems Word Wall Cards

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These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of the different human body systems. This product contains 12 cards with definitions and images for each term: ♦ Circulatory System ♦ Digestive System ♦ Endocrine System ♦ Female Reproductive System ♦ Integumentary System ♦ Lymphatic System ♦ Male Reproductive System ♦ Muscular System ♦ Nervous System ♦ Respiratory System ♦ Skeletal System ♦ Urinary System
DNA Crossword Puzzle
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DNA Crossword Puzzle

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This crossword puzzle on DNA is a fun vocabulary review for students and contains the following: 1. Blank Version without word bank 2. Blank Version with word bank 3. Answer Key Vocabulary Words: ♦ Adenine ♦ Chromosome ♦ Cytosine ♦ Deoxyribose ♦ DNA ♦ Gene ♦ Guanine ♦ Hydrogen Bonds ♦ Mutation ♦ Nucleotide ♦ Thymine ♦ Uracil
Science Experiments Bundle
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Science Experiments Bundle

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Science Experiments: This bundle includes all of the products listed below. Answer keys are provided for each product. Important: All these products sell for $13; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $9.95! ♦ 1. Skittles Lab Experiments ♦ 2. Gummy Bears Lab Experiment ♦ 3. Surface Tension Lab ♦ 4. Iron in Cereal Lab ♦ 5. Onion and Cheek Cell Lab ♦ 6. Plant Cell "Stomata" Lab ♦ 7. Scientific Method Fold and Learn: Good with any Science Experiment
Rock Cycle: Science Escape Room
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Rock Cycle: Science Escape Room

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge of the rock cycle. 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
Age of Enlightenment Lapbook
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Age of Enlightenment Lapbook

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This lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research or show what they have learned by writing facts about each key figure during the age of enlightenment. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) Contents: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Completed facts for each Term: Voltaire, Thomas Hobbes, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, René Descartes, Denis Diderot, David Hume 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each term
Ottoman Empire Cootie Catchers
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Ottoman Empire Cootie Catchers

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These cootie catchers are a great way for students to learn about the Ottoman Empire. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. These cootie catchers contain the following vocabulary terms: Ottoman Empire, Osman I, Suleiman the Magnificent, Devshirme System, Janissaries, Mehmed the Conqueror, Grand Mufti, Mimar Sinan These cootie catchers come in color and black & white, and also come with a version where students can add their own definitions. All of this totals 4 usable pages which has students identifying vocabulary terms (with pictures) based from the definition.
Ancient Chinese Dynasties Crossword Puzzle
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Ancient Chinese Dynasties Crossword Puzzle

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This crossword puzzle on Ancient Chinese Dynasties is a fun vocabulary review for students and contains the following: 1. Blank Version without word bank 2. Blank Version with word bank 3. Answer Key Vocabulary Words: ♦ Five Dynasties ♦ Han ♦ Ming ♦ Qin ♦ Qing ♦ Shang ♦ Six Dynasties ♦ Song ♦ Sui ♦ Tang ♦ Xia ♦ Yuan ♦ Zhou
Famous Explorers Crossword Puzzle
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Famous Explorers Crossword Puzzle

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This crossword puzzle on famous explorers is a fun vocabulary review for students and contains the following: 1. Blank Version without word bank 2. Blank Version with word bank 3. Answer Key Vocabulary Words: ♦ Amerigo Vespucci ♦ Christopher Columbus ♦ Daniel Boone ♦ Erik the Red ♦ Ferdinand Magellan ♦ Hernan Cortes ♦ Jacques Cousteau ♦ Leif Erikson ♦ Lewis and Clark ♦ Marco Polo ♦ Neil Armstrong
Figurative Language Cootie Catchers
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Figurative Language Cootie Catchers

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Figurative Language: These Figurative Language Cootie Catchers: are a great way for students to have fun while learning the different types of figurative language. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. Figurative language contents: (with pictures illustrating the concept) Alliteration: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers Hyperbole: This bag weighs a ton Idiom: Raining cats and dogs Metaphor: Time flies Onomatopoeia: AARGH! and PFOOM! Personification: The news travels quickly Pun: Seal of approval Simile: As quiet as a mouse Figurative Language Versions Students identify the... Figurative language type from the picture representation Figurative language type based from its definition Students can create their own definition for each type of figurative language.
Creative and Critical Thinking Cootie Catchers
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Creative and Critical Thinking Cootie Catchers

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Creative and Critical Thinking: These cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while improving their creative and critical thinking skills. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. There are 16 creative and critical thinking questions that will engage your students in a fun way. This product is great for fast finishers. Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ♦ 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
Volcanoes Crossword Puzzle
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Volcanoes Crossword Puzzle

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This crossword puzzle on volcanoes is a fun vocabulary review for students and contains the following: 1. Blank Version without word bank 2. Blank Version with word bank 3. Answer Key Vocabulary Words: ♦ Aa ♦ Caldera ♦ Cinder Cone ♦ Composite ♦ Hot Spot ♦ Lava ♦ Magma ♦ Magma Chamber ♦ Pahoehoe ♦ Pyroclastic Flow ♦ Shield ♦ Vent ♦ Volcanic Ash ♦ Volcano
Greek Gods and Goddesses Activity: Escape Room Mythology Greek Gods and Goddesses Activity: Escape R
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Greek Gods and Goddesses Activity: Escape Room Mythology Greek Gods and Goddesses Activity: Escape R

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge with the many gods and goddesses in Greek Mythology. Included are: Zeus, Aphrodite, Athena, Poseidon, Hera, Apollo, Hermes, Rhea, Hades, Persephone, Hades, Ares, Demeter, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Artemis, Hestia, Uranus, Gaia, Eros 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