I have a crate for each period with hanging file folders for each table. There are typically 4 students at a table. Each has a job Folder Folks - retrieves...
This year I am teaching in a new school, it's my second year of teaching. I would like to use INBs to stimulate creativity and critical thinking, but I have to...
One great resource for "pre-tests" that a few of us plan on using this year (though I admit I haven't tried them yet) come from the NSTA's "Uncovering Student...
I am a few days away from venturing out and starting my first student teaching assignment as a college senior. I assigned to a middle school in a suburban...
... <michscienceteach@...> wrote: Also, they told us that we can't require students to have supplies being that we are a public school. I live on the...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the middleschoolscience group. File :...
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I just uploaded my PowerPoint on Classroom Procedures (you should have received an email notification - you can find it in the files section as well). It's a...
Does anyone have any fun ways to introduce a unit on matter? Or any fun lessons? I'm trying to be more creative with my teaching. It gets boring just following...
Hi all I just found a piece of software that is free and sweet! Those of us with a projector and no smart board are stuck with not being
able to draw on a...
What a sweet way to go!! Nice job - wish I had the time to use it this year...I still have no tech in
my classroom.! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Nothing like...
Jeremy, I want to second those two NSTA books. I'm trying them for the first time too. Several of the assessments were used at other sessions I attended in St....
Hi everyone- Part of my seventh grade science core involves talking about density and how it has affected the earth's structure (core, mantle, crust, ...
My best suggestion is to have fun while maintaining a structured atmosphere. Don't sweat the small stuff! And don't be afraid to vent......That's what keeps...
i do a demo of the cearth's crust floating around on the magma by putting a can of tomato paste on a cutting board for the magma and then putting crackers on...
Margaret Skeel
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Sep 2, 2007 1:42 am
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Does anyone have any fun ways to introduce a unit on matter? Or any fun> lessons? I'm trying to be more creative with my teaching. It gets> boring just...
I am a first year teacher- 7th grade life science. I am working on a test for my first unit on the scientific method. I wanted to write a "story" where the...
Oh thank you! I am so excited... I spent the entire summer trying to figure out how to get a projector in my room (grants for private schools are hard to...
I show the Mythbusters on "Tailgate Drag" and have a quiz I give with that, in which I ask them to identify controlled, manipulated, responding variables, etc....
Hey there! How are you? ALthough LA is a bit far for me right now, I will be attending as many conferences and workshops as possible..how's the barn? Tell all...
Look at the Sponge Bob worksheets at Tracy Timpe's website... http://www.sciencespot.net/Pages/classgen.html#Anchor1 ... I am a first year teacher- 7th grade...
Funny to see another mythbusters example!! I was going to say I use the one (and I think it is a pretty old one), where they test poprocks. I use this one...
The bell work is done in a notebook that is kept in the hanging file folder. All of their graded assignements go in a pocket folder. Both of these things then...
I was wondering what you looked into when you were trying to get a projector. Has anyone had any luck with finding grants for projectors? I have considered...
I have an Epson Powerlite S4 and have been very pleased with it. I purchased it from Best Buy for under $600. Best Buy does offer grants if you live within...
Muskogee 7th and 8th greade Center 74403 Fluschme@... thanks ... Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool....
I use the one with Diet Coke and Mentos! Then I show the whole choreographed sequence on eppybird.com for fun! Tara Hengartner 7th grade science Louisville,...