10 Tips to Prevent Discipline Problems in Your Classroom Are you nervous about starting the school year teaching middle school and worried about having discipline problems? Does having the students out of their seats during hands on activities intimidate you? Here are some suggestions on ways to alleviate any major discipline issues BEFORE they develop. Discipline…
How to Set up Digital Science Notebooks with Google Slides Do you want to use digital science notebooks with your students, using Google Slides, but you’re not sure where to begin? Don’t let that hold you back! I’ve been using digital notebooks for many years now and I’m going to take you through step-by-step on…
Digital interactive notebooks will help your classroom management in so many ways. Are you thinking that having devices in students’ hands can be so distracting that it leads to behavior issues?
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10 Environmental Activities for Earth Day or Every Day What are you doing for Earth Day? Are you looking for activities to help the students bring environmental conservation into their own lives? Every day should be Earth Day, but these ten activities will start great discussions as students celebrate environmental awareness. 1. Create a Giant…
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…
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.
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 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…
Are you still deciding if you want to go with completely digital notebooks in your science classroom? Are you weighing the positives and negatives? I made the change to digital over six years ago and I’m going to tell you why it has been a GAME CHANGER for my students and me! I put together what I consider to be the top 15 benefits of using Google Slides to create digital notebooks.
