Introduce or reinforce relative rock dating vocabulary with your students. Each vocabulary word comes with a definition and visuals to help ALL learners in your classroom including English Language Learners and students with disabilities. This vocabulary set comes with the words: Superposition Original Horizontality Lateral Continuity Dike Fault Inclusion Each vocabulary card measures 8x11 and can easily be used during a station, small group instruction or displayed on a word wall and be easily seen from a distance. Next Generation Science Standards MS.History of Earth (MS-ESS1-4) ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth
I stumbled upon an oldie but goodie so I made it a freebie! When I first started teaching 6th Grade Science QUITE a few years ago, I created...
Our Biology I students just finished up a lab in which the leaf pigments are separated by paper chromatography. It might seem like an odd time of year to be studying leaf pigments and photosynthesis, but our school runs a trimester system, and a student might be in any given semester of a class at an odd time of the year....... A discussion topic for another day! As I am writing this, it has occurred to me that I have written on this topic before. I just took a look back through all of my old blog posts, and I have indeed discussed this topic previously! Now that I have re-read that old post, I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. Check out this link to the previous post, and I will not cover the same content again: Past Post on Paper Chromatography Here are some new pictures that I took as my students were working on their lab. Spinach leaves are placed in a mortar and pestle along with a little acetone. Students grind the leaves until the acetone turns a dark green. A small piece of capillary tubing is used to transfer drops of the pigment extract to a piece of chromatography paper. When enough drops have been placed on the chromatography paper to make a dark green circle on the paper, it is ready to be placed into a large 25x200 test tube. The large test tube has about 1/2 inch of petroleum ether in the bottom of the tube. The pigments will immediately begin to separate. Here is the finished chromatogram: Here is the lab that I use with my students: Click image to view in my TpT store.
What is the healthiest way to dry your hair? You might have been told that air drying your hair is a much better option. After all, it’s the heat that damages
There is always something new to learn about incorporating phenomena and relevancy into your science class. What are some of the most common misunderstandings?
On July 3, 2001, Crystal Ann Arensdorf, 20, and a friend went to Knicker's Saloon in Dubuque, Iowa, to finish celebrating Independence Day. Arensdorf had spent part of the evening watching fireworks with her sister. Arensdorf was last seen in Knicker's around 2 a.m. She was supposed to take a taxi cab with the bartender after closing time to East Dubuque, Ill. However, Arensdorf was gone when the cab arrived.
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When you’re new to teaching, you sometimes miss opportunities that you later discover. When I was teaching 5th graders about evaporation, freezing, condensation, and melting, I focused on the terms heating and cooling. There’s nothing wrong with using those terms, but in order to be MORE correct, I changed my terminology to removing thermal energy ... Read more
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We’ve all heard of Common Core. Most of us have also heard of Next Generation Science Standards* (NGSS). So what is the story? What
We have been doing lots of fun stuff in science and I wanted to share some pictures of some activities we did during our Force and Motion unit! To begin the unit, we did an activity to learn about the relative location and position of objects. Our Science book had a great activity to help teach the students about this concept. Each partner group gets a bag of blocks, or you can use cubes. I used some foam blocks that we had in our 3rd grade storage closet. You need to make sure each back has duplicate copies of each block. Each partner sets up a divider between them and one students plays the builder and one student the copier. The builder takes their blocks and builds a structure. Then, the builder has to TELL the copier how to build the same structure. Then, they remove the dividers and see if they were right! This group got it right! They filled out this sheet to go along with the activity. Just click the image above to download! They print two to a page. Another fun activity we did was to learn about how mass affects motion. This one was sooo much fun! I gave the kids a toy car and three pennies. They had to let the car roll down a ramp with no weight, with one penny, and then with all three pennies. After each roll, the students have to measure the distance the car went and record it on their sheet. Here they are in action! Here is the activity sheet for their science notebooks. All the procedures are listed on the sheet if you need more clarification on the activity! =) Just click the image to download! Here is the flipchart to go along with Mass and Motion lesson! Just click the image below to download it. Note: You need Activ Inspire software for this to work. I certainly hope everyone had a fabulous Valentine's Day! I must say, my Valentine presents definitely did the trick!! The big present won by a student at the end of the day! After opening the present she said, "There's too much candy in here." I about died laughing. I replied, "I can take it back if you want," to which she quickly replied, "NO!" HAHAHA Valentines Day went off without a hitch! I was exhausted though! I even had to tutor for an hour and half after school. Talk about some nutty children!
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✯ Day 325 of Vintage 365 ✯ Have you ever had one of those weeks or months (or perhaps even years) that didn't just tax your soul, it full on audited it? November began as such on this end, and while thankfully the eye of the storm has likely touched down already, I can't help but still feel a bit drained from contending with some rather serious stuff (sorry to be vague - I'm alright; the mister and I have just been trying very hard to determine some important elements of our lives in the coming months and years, which has lead to many, many heavy-as-lead discussions). You know how it is after you go through an emotionally trying time - even a short lived one. Often you find yourself seeking moments of laughter, enjoyment, and escapism from the worries of the world, if only for a fleeting moment. Perhaps it was for that reason then that I could help but smile ear-to-ear when I came across the fantastically fun image below of a lovely 1950s mom, her daughter and the darling family dog flying home in a futuristic personal spacecraft. {This stylish, highly convenient mode of future transportation first appeared in the April 1959 copy of Newsweek, and no doubt appealed to just as many then as it likely would still today - perhaps even more so, given how congested many of our roadways now are! Vintage illustration via What Makes the Pie Shops Tick on Flickr.} As the fifties neared and end and rocketed (sorry, I love a good pun) in the crazy sixties it was all the rage for movies, TV shows, comic books, and magazines to create pieces centered not only around the space race that was underway, but also to creatively imagine what life was perhaps going to look like in a few decades. Though many such portrays of the future (in some cases, what is now the present) are downright hokey, kitschy, or simply absurd, there's something so wonderfully cool about this particular image. The gals aren't sporting helmets or space suits, they're dressed simply as though they were taking the family car out. And much like through the windows of an automobile, you can easily spot that the occupants have been out doing a spot of grocery shopping. Other than the slightly futuristic looking patio furniture there is nothing inherently "far out" about this image. From the hairstyles to the architecture of the house, I love how the world still looks much the same (or rather, much as it did in the 50s) here, yet the all-important issue of transportation has morphed, in this vision of the future, into one involving personal flying saucers. Humanity has long been keen on forecasting what lies ahead in the ensuing decades and centuries. Very often these predictions become comically laughable or eyebrow-raisingly alarming when viewed through the eyes of the present. Sometimes though even those that haven't quite come to fruition at the point in time seem to retain a sense of possibility - as though at any moment we might open a newspaper or flick on the TV and catch word of the fact that someone really did finally create a handy little spacecraft like the one in this endlessly charming illustration. Just as I'm not quite sure of the answers to many of the unknowns my husband and I were pondering so hard earlier this month, so too was the creator of this piece uncertain of what life would be like in the years to come. They took a stab at guessing though, and while the mark they're aiming for has yet to be hit, I can't help but think that one day we'll get there. We'll have our own family sized flying saucers and finally be able to prove all those wild and crazy daydreamers of the 50s and 60s right. After all, who really knows what the future holds in store until it arrives?
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The first thing to notice on this evogram is that hippos are the closest living relatives of whales, but they are not the ancestors of whales. In fact, none of the individual animals on the evogram is the direct ancestor of any other, as far as we know. That's why each of them gets its
Cesaria Evora evoked the longing and melancholy of Cape Verde's morna like no other singer. The island nation of Cape Verde is located...
Phases of the Moon The 2011 Harvest Moon is next Monday, September 12. Will you be watching observing it? What makes the moon cast its light in phases? Here is a tasty way of demonstrating the proc…
Have you seen the STEM Kits that are available these days? So many of these will get your young engineers started with some STEM activities and explorations-- very much like the STEM Challenges we complete in the classroom every day. The thing is- these are kits that have everything you need already in them! All
In the 1920s, government policy allowed the extermination of Yellowstone’s gray wolf—the apex predator—triggering an ecosystem collapse known as trophic cascade. In 1995—through use of the Endangered Species Act—the conservation community reintroduced the gray wolf to restore balance. The impact was dramatic.
