How to Survive the Formal Teacher Observation of Your Science Class
Are you a science teacher about to have a formal observation? Are you nervous about having everything going just right with a very hands-on activity?
Move the Plates! Teaching Plate Tectonics is Fun
Move the Plates! Teaching Plate Tectonics is Fun Are you teaching plate tectonics and looking for a way for students to manipulate the plates while learning the types of boundaries? Would you like a digital component to add to your earth science unit? Utilizing plate tectonic drag and drop activities with Google Earth analysis helps…
DIGITAL NOTEBOOK GRADING RUBRIC
When it comes time to grade your digital science notebook this makes it so much easier! I send this to the students, in the beginning of the creation of their notebooks, so that they understand the expectations. I have them put this on the first slide of their Google Slides Notebook(after the title page) and then when it comes time for me to grade I simply circle the categories that apply!
SIMPLE MACHINES REVIEW / ASSESSMENT
Here are three simple machine review slides with fill in the blanks for types of simple machines plus the types of levers. Great for introduction, review or assessment.
Lab Report Template
Basic report template for pulling together a lab after completion. Have students form a question, purpose and hypothesis and then draw conclusions to keep track during a unit. Having this accountability assures that you know who understood the lab and allow students to study from the procedure later.
Lab Grading Rubric
A checklist rubric for you to keep students accountable during labs. Data for your grade book but also positive reinforcement of good behavior and procedures for the students.
“BE POSITIVE!” CHEMISTRY GROWTH MINDSET Decor Elements BULLETIN BOARD
Need to decorate your biology or chemistry science room and motivate your students? Here is a Growth Mindset statement composed of Periodic Table Elements perfect for the chemistry, biology or general science classroom! This is a PDF file and the elements could be printed out on colored paper to make them really pop. There is one element per slide. The statement is “Be positive!”
Online Teaching UNIT PLANNER FORM-Bird Theme
Keep your distance learning, online unit lesson plans organized with this digital unit planner that keeps track of your lessons, your handout links that you keep on Google Drive and any video or website links for that lesson. It can be difficult to keep track of all of the resources available while you are also juggling teaching on an online platform. This can be loaded into PowerPoint or Google slides and you can create hyperlinks to your lesson components so they will be at your fingertips when you are ready to put them on Google classroom or to send out to the students. This resource includes one slide that can be replicated many times designed with my own bird artwork.
This coordinates with my other bird themed classroom products.
PREDICT THE NATURE STORY! Photo Prompt CER Task Cards Distance Learning
Can you figure out what happens next in this image? When following the NGSS MS-LS2 or 5-LS2 standards for studying ecosystems, animal and plant behavior, these full color, digital or printable, prompt photo task cards are very useful for using CER to explain the phenomenon of sequential events in nature. Each image has a question such as “what happened next?“ or “what may happen in the next 10 minutes?“. Students look at the given evidence in the photo and explain their reasoning. There can be many interpretations that get the students engaged and thinking.
There is a brief description for the teacher at the beginning of the slides to use as a prompt. I like to use my CER Templates while teaching with this product.
How to Create an Exciting and Structured Rube Goldberg Machines Unit
How to Create an Exciting But Structured Rube Goldberg Machines Unit Have you tried having your students make Rube Goldberg machines and had the project drag on and on with several false starts? Did you have an abundance of random materials around your classroom? Did your students start the project with enthusiasm but then fizzle…