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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
Gas Laws (Boyle, Charles, Gay Lussac, Ideal): Chemistry Escape Room - Science
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Gas Laws (Boyle, Charles, Gay Lussac, Ideal): Chemistry Escape Room - Science

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with problems involving the gas laws: Boyle’s law, Charles’s law, Gay Lussac’s law, Ideal gas law. 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
Mean, Median, Mode, and Range Activity: Escape Room End of Year Math Game
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Mean, Median, Mode, and Range Activity: Escape Room End of Year Math Game

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with mean, median, mode and range, set in a fun end of the year/ summer theme. Physical locks and boxes are not required, but they do make it more fun! 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
Black History Month Word Search
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Black History Month Word Search

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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
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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
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
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Task Cards
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with simple, compound, and complex sentences. A recording sheet and an answer key are included. Problem Types: 1. Students identify simple, compound, and complex sentences 2. Students add or take away phrases to change the sentence type as well as combining or separating sentences. These require students to be familiar with independent and dependent clauses and conjunctions.
Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics Word Wall Cards
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Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics Word Wall Cards

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These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of plate tectonics. This product contains 24 cards with definitions and images for each term: ♦ Alfred Wegener ♦ Asthenosphere ♦ Continental Drift ♦ Convection Current ♦ Convergent Boundary ♦ Crust ♦ Divergent Boundary ♦ Earthquake ♦ Epicenter ♦ Fault ♦ Hot Spot ♦ Inner Core ♦ Lithosphere ♦ Mantle ♦ Mid-Ocean Ridge ♦ Outer Core ♦ Pangaea ♦ Seismic Waves ♦ Seismograph ♦ Seismologist ♦ Subduction Zone ♦ Tectonic Plates ♦ Transform Boundary ♦ Volcano
Trigonometric Ratios Game: Geometry Escape Room - Math
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Trigonometric Ratios Game: Geometry Escape Room - Math

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with trigonometric ratios. 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
Context Clues Task Cards
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Context Clues Task Cards

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Context Clues: These context clues task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their comprehension skills and vocabulary. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify the correct definition for the underlined word in the sentence. An answer sheet and an answer key are included.
Vertebrates and Invertebrates Word Search
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Vertebrates and Invertebrates Word Search

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This word search on the different types of vertebrates and invertebrates also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: Vertebrates: ♦ Dolphin ♦ Wolf ♦ Frog ♦ Snake ♦ Fish ♦ Bird Invertebrates: ♦ Ladybug ♦ Octopus ♦ Earthworm ♦ Lobster ♦ Jellyfish ♦ Snail
Human Evolution PowerPoint
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Human Evolution PowerPoint

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This PowerPoint on The Theory of Human Evolution is geared to any Middle or High School Science or Biology class/grade. The purpose of this PowerPoint is to summarize the important information and concepts about human evolution including: A. The main idea of human evolution with explanations & video B. The theories for bipedalism and intelligence C. Transitional Species including: Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erecus, Neanderthals, and the little people of Flores On average this presentation should run approximately 1-2 days (depending on the amount of note-taking) of class time and is meant to either introduce or reinforce concepts. There are 35 slides (excluding the title slide) on this PowerPoint which contain the following titles: Did Humans Evolve from Monkeys? Answer (3 slides) Human Evolution Video Human vs. Chimp DNA Sequences Vestigial Structures Vestigial Structures in Humans (8 slides: see below: (Wisdom Teeth) (Third Eyelid) (Tail Bone) - 2 slides (Darwin's Point) (Human Yolk Sac) (Plantaris Muscle) (Appendix) (Extra Ear Muscles) (Tail Bone: Coccyx) Homologous Structures Homology: From Jaws to Ears (2 slides) The Theory for Bipedalism Migration of Humans How do we Know the Human Race Began in Africa? The Theory for Human Intelligence (2 slides) Transitional Species (Transitional title slide) Human Phylogenic Tree Pictures/ Illustrations (2 slides) Ardipithecus Ramidus (2 slides) Australopithecus Afarensis (2 slides) Homo Habilis Homo Erectus Homo Neanderthalensis - Neandertals The Little People of Flores
Compound Words Cootie Catchers
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Compound Words Cootie Catchers

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Compound Words: These compound words cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about compound words. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity has students viewing two pictures of different objects and then figuring out the compound word. This product includes the following 16 compound words: Cootie Catcher 1: Butterfly, Cupcake, Fireman, Football, Pancake, Rainbow, Skateboard, Sunflower Cootie Catcher 2: Birdhouse, Fingernail, Horseshoe, Jellyfish, Lighthouse, Mailbox, Spaceship, Toothbrush 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
Types of Genres Word Search
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Types of Genres Word Search

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This word search on genre types also doubles as a coloring book!. The solution to the puzzle is included. Terms Included: ♦ Biography ♦ Comic ♦ Drama ♦ Fairy Tale ♦ Horror ♦ Mystery ♦ Mythology ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Suspense