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
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
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: 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
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
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.
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
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: 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.
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
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: 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
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