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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
Calculating Profit and Loss Game: Escape Room Math
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Calculating Profit and Loss Game: Escape Room Math

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with calculating profit and loss. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 3 Levels to decode: Multiple choice, Message Decoder, and a Maze ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Plate Tectonics Lapbook
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Plate Tectonics Lapbook

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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
The Heart and Circulatory System Word Search
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The Heart and Circulatory System Word Search

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This word search on the structures of the heart includes the following vocabulary terms. The solution to the puzzle is included. ♦ Aorta ♦ Inferior Vena Cava ♦ Left Atrium ♦ Left Ventricle ♦ Pulmonary Artery ♦ Pulmonary Veins ♦ Right Atrium ♦ Right Ventricle ♦ Superior Vena Cava
Fractions Decimals Percents: Math Escape Room
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Fractions Decimals Percents: Math Escape Room

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with converting between fractions, decimals and percents. 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
H-R Diagram (Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram) Graphing Activity
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H-R Diagram (Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram) Graphing Activity

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H-R Diagram Graphing Activity: This activity has students completing the following: 1. Graphing stars based from their temperature and brightness. 2. Marking each star on the graph according to their size. 3. Label the Spectral Classes OBAFGKM 4. Identify each group of stars as either White dwarfs, Main sequence stars, Giants, or Supergiants. 5. Post lab critical thinking questions 6. Answer Keys: completed graph and answers to lab questions
Biomes Lapbook
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Biomes Lapbook

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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
Naming Ionic Compounds: Chemistry Escape Room - Science
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Naming Ionic Compounds: Chemistry Escape Room - Science

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with naming ionic compounds. A list of polyatomic ions is included for students. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 4 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, Tarsia Puzzle, and Maze ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Ancient Egypt Word Search
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Ancient Egypt Word Search

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Ancient Egypt: This Ancient Egypt word search also doubles as a coloring book!. The advantage to this is that students can actually see the concept behind the term they are attempting to find. The Solution to the puzzle is included. This Ancient Egypt Word Search/ Coloring Book contains the following terms: ♦ Ankh ♦ Anubis ♦ Cartouche ♦ Eye of Horus ♦ Gazelle Jar ♦ Giza Pyramids ♦ Great Sphinx ♦ Isis ♦ King Tut ♦ Lotus Girl ♦ Nefertiti ♦ Osiris ♦ Sarcophagus ♦ Scarab Beetle ♦ Scroll Thank you to Glitter Meets Glue Designs who provided the images
Water Cycle
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Water Cycle

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Water Cycle: This water cycle crossword puzzle is a fun vocabulary review on the water cycle for students and contains the following: 1. Blank Version without word bank 2. Blank Version with word bank 3. Answer Key 4. Vocabulary Words: ♦ Aquifer ♦ Atmosphere ♦ Cloud ♦ Condensation ♦ Evaporation ♦ Groundwater ♦ Ocean ♦ Precipitation ♦ Runoff ♦ Sun ♦ Surface Water ♦ Transpiration ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Water Vapor
Electromagnetic Spectrum Crossword Puzzle
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Electromagnetic Spectrum Crossword Puzzle

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This crossword puzzle on the electromagnetic spectrum 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: ♦ Electromagnetic Spectrum ♦ Frequency ♦ Gamma Rays ♦ Infrared Light ♦ Microwaves ♦ Radio Waves ♦ Ultraviolet Light ♦ Visible Light ♦ Wavelength ♦ X Rays
Magnets and Magnetism Crossword Puzzle
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Magnets and Magnetism Crossword Puzzle

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This crossword puzzle on magnets and magnetism 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: ♦ Attract ♦ Compass ♦ Electromagnet ♦ Iron ♦ Magnet ♦ Magnetic Field ♦ Permanent Magnet ♦ Pole ♦ Repel ♦ Temporary Magnet
Forms of Energy Escape Room
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Forms of Energy Escape Room

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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
Equivalent Fractions: Math Escape Room
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Equivalent Fractions: Math Escape Room

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with equivalent fractions. 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
Dog Breeds Interactive Identification Game - Dichotomous Key PowerPoint
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Dog Breeds Interactive Identification Game - Dichotomous Key PowerPoint

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Dog Breeds Interactive Identification Game: This is not your average PowerPoint! This PowerPoint is a live-working interactive dichotomous key! Each slide has code embedded within it that allows the students to answer yes or no questions about the different types of dog breeds. The students are to pick a dog breed they like to begin the "game" or lesson. The students are then presented with questions about the dog breeds such as: does the dog have a long or short coat of hair? Does the dog have long or stocky legs? Does the dog have dropped or erect ears? etc. After clicking the correct button, only the dogs with the chosen characteristics are left on the screen. Additional questions are asked until the correct dog is chosen. This PowerPoint can be used in many different ways: *Teaching young children about different dog breeds *Teaching young and older children about dog characteristics *Teaching older children about dichotomous keys Important Note: This interactive works when in SlideShow mode
Combinations and Permutations Activity: Escape Room Math
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Combinations and Permutations Activity: Escape Room Math

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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