Ideas and inspiration for your middle or high school science classroom! In this blog post, I'm sharing 16 of my favorite organization hacks.

Ideas and inspiration for your middle or high school science classroom! In this blog post, I'm sharing 16 of my favorite organization hacks.

Need a quick, easy-to-use review game? This EDITABLE GRUDGEBALL REVIEW GAME TEMPLATE can be used to easily create a fun and engaging game for any subject area or grade level!

In this post, I will share 20 virtual labs & activities that you can use to teach Forensic Science, whether it be in-person or online.

Looking for back-to-school ideas for your forensic science class? Check out these 5 fun and engaging forensics activities for the first days of school.

Ideas and inspiration for your middle or high school science classroom! In this blog post, I'm sharing 16 of my favorite organization hacks.

Today on the blog I'm sharing a simple, yet effective, introduction activity for teaching natural selection.

Discover my three NO-FAIL strategies for motivating your middle and high school students.

Ideas and inspiration for your middle or high school science classroom! In this blog post, I'm sharing 16 of my favorite organization hacks.

Creating an EPIC Forensics course doesn't have to be hard! Learn my 5 "must try" strategies that are guarenteed to get your students excited about learning!

Grudgeball: An Engaging Classroom Review Game is the perfect way to host a friendly competition while reviewing content.

This week on the blog, I am sharing how I teach deductive reasoning in Forensics with my favorite activities and engaging resources.

Save time and valuable energy with this HUGE growing bundle of MATTER resources. 500 pages - 62 MB - Zip

Incorporate these 5 "must-do" lab activities in your middle and high school Physical Science classes to increase motivation and improve test scores.

Don't settle for a boring macromolecules lesson! Engage your Biology students with these fun macromolecules videos, lessons, activities, labs and more!

In this Genetic Drift Simulation Activity students will use craft beads and a dice to model how random events can affect small populations.

Today, on the blog, I am sharing 15 of my favorite Amazon finds that I use in my classroom.

Don't settle for a boring macromolecules lesson! Engage your Biology students with these fun macromolecules videos, lessons, activities, labs and more!

Save time and valuable energy with this arson investigation lesson plan bundle (FOR FORENSIC SCIENCE). 50 pages - 6 MB - Zip- Print & Digital Versions Included

Engage your Forensics students with these 10 "must-do" forensics labs. 60 pages - 74 MB - Zip

A no-prep BLOOD SPATTER investigation activity for Forensic Science. 2 pages - 1 MB - PDF

The middle school standards for science want students to understand that photosynthesis is the beginning of the flow of energy through the food chain.

Telling time past the hour can be challenging for primary kids but it doesn’t have to be a struggle for you or your students. Learn simple ways and effective strategies to make telling time easier for primary kids.

The best "icebreaker" activity for high school students (who hate icebreaker activities). Get a jump start on creating a bond with your students.

Our Metals and Non-Metals Poster is a great educational resource that will help you create relevant and engaging Science classrooms.

Many upper elementary science teachers start the year teaching their students about science process skills and scientific practices like: working safely in the lab using science tools asking questions planning and carrying out investigations analyzing and interpreting data constructing explanations with claims, evidence, and reasoning Here are some resources and ideas that can help make ... Read more

Podcasts are a great addition to your Forensics line-up. Today, I am sharing True Crime Podcasts to use in the Forensics Classroom.

Need a quick, easy-to-use review game? This EDITABLE GRUDGEBALL REVIEW GAME TEMPLATE can be used to easily create a fun and engaging game for any subject area or grade level!

Make Biology fun and festive this Christmas season. Today, on the blog, I am sharing 7 Holiday Activities to use in your Biology Classroom.

In this blog post, I'll share how I've utilized spiral reviews to boost Biology exam scores and enhance student learning outcomes.

Learn how to prepare and host a super-fun and engaging Trashketball Review Game in your classroom! Grab my editable game template and create your own game.

Learn how to prepare and host a super-fun and engaging Trashketball Review Game in your classroom! Grab my editable game template and create your own game.

Don't settle for a boring macromolecules lesson! Engage your Biology students with these fun macromolecules videos, lessons, activities, labs and more!

I decided to take on my own challenge of incorporating a STEM activity every day for a week. It turned out to be a huge success where both my students and I had a blast. Here were the various …

Do you need an activity for the first day of school? This Forensics Chit-Chat is the perfect way to engage your forensics students on the first day!

We were still talking about plate tectonics on Friday. We talked about how scientists theorize that the continents were once connected as one giant super-continent, Pangaea. I cut out South America and Africa and asked them to fit them together as best the could. When they didn't fit together perfectly I asked the kids why the continents wouldn't match perfectly after 250 million years? We talked about erosion and the power of water (waves, storms and such--like the poor people who endured the cyclone in the Cairns region of Australia in the past week or so). Next we did a little activity to show how continents could move without some giant hand pulling them apart. This was perfect for the kids, since it let them "see" the continents move without our touching them. I cut the continents out of foam. The kids folded construction paper. First we set the continents close together with a piece of playdough to weight the continents down. As the kids pulled each side of the construction paper, they could see the continents move apart. We got this idea from Robert Gardners" Earth-Shaking Science Projects About Planet Earth. (affiliate link) The red paper represents the mantle and the next experiment helps the kids understand how and why magma flows. The mantle is hotter than the crust. This is a terrible picture, but it helped the kids see that heat rises. We took ice cold water and poured it into a jar. We dyed some water green and heated it up. Then LD sucked the hot water with a turkey baster (but I think a eye dropper might work better) and slowly let out the hot/green water. The kids could see the green water streaming upwards toward the surface. 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I get loads of questions about the Output aspect of notebooking. If you read no further, read this: Be flexible. Advice Allowing time for student output is a crucial part of science lesson with notebooks. Here is some advice I have about Output. You don’t have to make your students say, “I’m going to choose Acrostic for ... Read more

We at Bright Side are certain that any subject, no matter how complicated, can be made interesting for children provided it’s explained in an accessible way. Take chemistry for example, which is often considered one of the toughest subjects for a child to learn at school. We suggest beginning with the most famous chemical elements and their characteristics.

Discover my three NO-FAIL strategies for motivating your middle and high school students.

Today on the blog, I'm sharing my tips for hosting a mock crime scene in Forensics. Your students are going to love this murder mystery!

Save yourself TIME AND ENERGY with this no-prep Innocence Project Lesson & Research Activity! This resource bundle begins with a lesson over The Innocence Project where students will complete the included "Science Scribbles" notes sheet. Then, students will conduct their own research and create a banner that showcases what they learned. Need a digital option? No problem! This bundle includes both PRINT and DIGITAL versions of each resource, making it perfect for distance learning, online courses, flipped classrooms and traditional classrooms. ★GOOGLE CLASSROOM COMPATIBLE What's Included: ✅The Innocence Project Lesson (PowerPoint & Google Slides) ✅The Innocence Project Science Scribbles (PDF & Google Slides) ✅The Innocence Project Research Banner (PDF & Google Slides) Other FORENSICS Resources You Might Be Interested In: ⭐ Forensic Science: Investigative Processes Classroom Escape [Print & Digital] ⭐ History of Forensics: Digital Timeline Project ⭐ Introduction to Forensics WebQuest (Print & Digital) ⭐ Introduction to Forensics- Complete 9-Week Unit (Distance Learning Compatible) ⭐ FORENSICS CURRICULUM- ENTIRE YEAR COURSE BUNDLE Connect with me: ❤️Newsletter ❤️Blog ❤️Facebook ❤️Instagram ❤️Pinterest Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: *Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Feedback and ratings are most greatly appreciated. Be the first to know about my sales, discounts, freebies and new products: *Look for the green star next to my store logo (THE TRENDY SCIENCE TEACHER) and click it to become a follower. That's it! You will now receive email updates about this store.

Students learn in a variety of ways. Teaching English with hands-on activities can help language students learn and practice English vocabulary, grammar, concepts, and ideas. Here are six hands-on activities and games for teaching English + illustrations

By building your own seismograph to document shaking, you'll learn how scientists measure earthquake intensity.

The Best Anchor Charts for your ELA classroom all together in one place! You will find outlines to utilize in Reading Literature, Reading Informational, Writing and Language. Explained in this blog post is about the purpose of utilizing anchor charts in your daily instruction. Along with tips to organize your charts. Below is a collection […]

Hello to all of you AMAZING teachers out there! If you are reading this post, it’s likely that you are interested in taking your Science classroom to the next LEVEL! Well…..you came to the right place! This post is the second of ten activities, tips and strategies that are a part of my “Leveling Up ... Read more