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10 Simple Experiments for Density and Buoyancy and Air Pressure

Help kids develop an understanding of air pressure, buoyancy, and density using a series of hands-on labs.

Nature Walk Looking for Pinholes

Searching for a new nature walk? Try looking for bright circles of light. Find out where to look and what these mean.

A Science Teacher Looks at Hebrews 9

A science teacher looks at Hebrews 9. A blogpost connecting science concepts about blood and scriptural truths. #EngagingScienceLabs

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An Open Letter to Admissions Offices

We’re eager for the next step in academia. Be it preschool to college; the application process is surprisingly similar. We’ve done our re...

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Periodic Table DIY

Why the best one might be one you design yourself. If you’re in the market for periodic table, the number of options is dizzying. What’s ...

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Mitosis and Meiosis

Study mitosis and meiosis using student movement. Cut ropes into lengths and use them to model chromosomes and track their duplication.

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Teaching Static Electricity Using VIPs

When teaching static electricity, it’s tempting to tell kids the basics... • like charges repel • unlike charges attract And to do this w...

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Helping Kids to Build Mental Models

Mental models are created through your senses. What your body has touched and used helps your brain store it as a mental model. The more ...

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Dollar Store Optics

I love science experiments, and I love sharing these with my children and my students. When I returned to the classroom after raising my ...

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Writing Lab Reports in Middle School Science

If you polled your students, what would they say is the favorite part of your science class? I'm guessing that few, if any, would respond...

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Cleanup in the Science Classroom

If you don’t explicitly train your students to clean up after themselves, they’ll happily allow you to do it for them. I’m embarrassed to...

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Displaying Science Equipment

Now that we've taken care of our small supplies and our unit equipment what else do we have to think about? Is there anything we could pu...

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Organize Your Science Supplies

When setting up your classroom space and routines, I think it’s helpful to think of this process as crafting a schema—a buzzword we used ...

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Organizing Your Science Equipment

Last week we discussed storing small items such as office supplies and smallish pieces of equipment used on a regular basis. Today we’ll ...

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Pinholes and Optics

Pinholes are a great way to observe a solar eclipse… but frankly they’re super cool in their own right. Here’s three different pinhole vi...

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Brilliant Activities to Celebrate the Great Solar Eclipse

I recently had a post on the We are Teachers website. You can check it out here: https://www.weareteachers.com/solar-eclipse-activities/

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Making a Moon Model

If you’ve been noticing the Moon (based on last week’s blog post), let’s try to build a model based on your observations. I’ll get you st...

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Measuring the Moon

You can learn a lot about the Moon's movement by watching it--and you don't have to come out at night! Since the Moon spends half of its ...

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Graphing Data without Using Numbers.

Do your students struggle with graphing? Here we'll look at a Distance vs. Time graph and we won't use any numbers or rulers or graph pap...

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No Sink? No Problem!

Do you wish you had more classroom sinks? Do you wish you had any classroom sinks? That was certainly my issue when I walked into our cla...

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