Does anyone have Earth Day activities that a substitute could do? I am going on vacation during Earth Day, but still want my students to do something. Thanks!...
I'm about to start teaching this, and it's not my area of expertise. The textbook I'm supposed to use is (I feel) confusing. I'd like to begin with a clear...
Greetings! I just got home from NSTA in St. Louis, and here's my report. Actually go to http://www.gatesscience.info/teamescience/nsta.htm to read my journal....
I need a 'sure fire' way to extract DNA. I've tried the method using the split peas, detergent, and my blender. I got a lot of froth, but nothing really...
Great journal Charlie. It made me jealous, I went to Hartford in 2006 and will be there in BOSTON next year, I can't wait! I can't even imagine being stuck...
I use an acronym I got from one of the videos I showed for this subject - Kids(Kingdom) Prefer(Phylum) Candy(Class) Over(Order) Fresh(Family) Green(Genus)...
Charlie & Jay - I don't even want to know what hotel you were in, Charlie! Hopefully it wasn't mine! I am so pleased you found another green dot because I...
I have done this lab several times and generally get good results although the DNA doesn't usually look as stringy as some pictures make it look. The first...
If you are comfortable leaving an easy lab I have one at school, using regular packing peanuts vs biodegradable ones. You could write your own using these...
I learned King Philip Came Over From Germany's Showers in 1962 and still use but I like these better. Another one is Pass (prophase) Me (metaphase) Another ...
The one I learned at Mo. Univ., was : King Phillip Came Over For Green Soup. I didn't realize there were so many different ones! Shirley Edward Adler...
Lorax is great~ kids eat up the Dr. Seuss titles! Kids Domain has The History of Earth Day: http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/earthday/history.html They may...
that happened to me the first time until some told me to put the alcohol in the freezer and not over blend it (you get plenty of cells in 60 seconds. good luck...
I first did a sorting activity (beads, but you can use anything) and then used the slides from the site below with some additional info. The slides are current...
Does anyone have a copy of the pH scale activity that used to be on middleschoolscience.com? It was the one with the cards that had substances on them like...
I think this is what you are looking for. We have alaready done this and the kids loved it! Please let me know if you need something else! Jean in TN Justine...
The old stand by is the classic - King Phillip Came Over For Good Soup - I usually have the kids come up with their own - put it on a poster 11x17 and draw a...
Last year I did strawberries and it was very successful. Upon someone's recommendation on this or the NSTA biology list serve I tried wheat germ. It was even...
2 visuals I use when I teach this are an inverted triangle with Kingdom on top and species at the bottom which is the smallest. I've found that my kids have a...
I wish we could have completed the year with the last observation. The weather for the past week has been deary and rainy and tonight we are due for another...
What if the students could make 7 foldable nesting boxes? They could put pictures and words of an animal that they classify and could also put the words that...
Tom, No problem. I mentioned the huge problem that weather played this year. I also picked up three new schools as a result of the presentation - Barrow, ...
I will post information I learned from the conference to the list. Since I shipped a full box home today, I will not have that information to share until after...
Thanks for sharing Tracy! I couldn't make it to the conference this year. :( Mishy ... From: Tracy Trimpe To: middleschoolscience@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
For the five kingdoms - tricky because now there are six in some books if your books are new enough - my kids came up with Animals (animals) Play (plants)...
Oh, Dinah! Did she get to come??? I wish I'd gotten to see her again when I went to Baltimore. She is such an awesome and dynamic speaker. So is Bill Nye!!...
I always talk about scientific names when I do classification and one kind of fun activity that I do is tell the kids the story of my college roommate (this...
Hi all I am so glad to see so many of you are planning on attending the NSTA Conference in Boston. I am part of the planning group and we are already reading...
What about the two kingdoms that have replaced monerans? Joel Douthett ... From: middleschoolscience@yahoogroups.com on behalf of MNLaff2002 Sent: Sun 4/1/2007...
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