A new DNA study explores where the Taino came from and where they went.
A celebration of the beauty of moths.
Scientists have captured a ghost-like subatomic particle on Earth, helping to solve a mystery baffling scientists for 100 years.
Meet the Australian pale bat with a soft but deadly embrace: the ghost bat.
This worksheet allows students to practice identifying atoms from different versions (protons drawn in the nucleus, protons labeled in the nucleus, and protons not pictured or labeled in the nucleus). Also, students can practice identifying atoms when asked in a question format. This worksheet can...
Wind farms are far less harmful to birds that first thought, the biggest ever study has shown, because seabirds actively change their flight path to avoid them.
Here are a passel (fun word of the day!) of FREE or low-cost ideas! Hopefully, you’ll find something new and interesting in the potpourri collection I’ve assembled below! First up, six art projects that caught my eye. For example, who ever thought of doing “stained glass” Halloween decorations? These ideas all have a unique twist… Read More …
his amazing working model of the human heart and circulatory system will bring your lecture to life!
These water cycle science fair projects are inspirations and fun experiments for teachers, homeschool parents, and students.
What is happening in the deepest blue of the sea? What we take for granted is a layered and complex system of levels that are always changing. Explore the 6 layers of water and earth in the Earth's oceans. Along with textured felt pieces, there are also 16 laminated labels to describe the different ocean layers and the earth beneath them. This contains 2 sets of labels for each layer so it is adaptable to a wider range of ages. The labels include: Trenches Abyss Dark (Midnight) Zone Twilight Zone Sunlit Zone Sky Continental Shelf Continental Slope Continental Rise Ocean Basin Epipelagic Zone Mesopelagic Zone Bathypelagic Zone Abyssopelagic Zone Hadopelagic Zone With paint detail and a little bit of glitter the geometric layers of ocean are whimsical and textured. This set is simple enough for preschoolers and detailed enough for use within home school or early elementary classrooms. The laminated labels can be used for memory recall or as sight words. Included: 1 felt background 13"x13" (33cmx33cm) 7 felt layers with 12 uniquely notched sides for puzzle assembly. 16 felt backed labels Play ideas: Add books on geology, the earth, the layers of the ocean, sea life or biology. Discuss the difference between different layers and types of ocean regions. Race to see who can assemble the ocean layers first Match the labels to the ocean parts. Use as part of a preschool, early elementary or home school curriculum With notched pieces this set also works as a puzzle!! Check out our other listings to see more! We also have an ever growing science series including felt board sets on geography, space and biology. Twig and Daisy felt board sets do not have adhesive or hook and loop tape on the back of the pieces. I only use soft felt and it happens to contain a little bit of magic. Felt sticks to felt even on a vertical surface which is really cool! Adding hook and loop tape will actually ruin your felt board adding picks and making it look worn well before it's time. We are located in Canada and use a shipping service for packages which allows us to use USPS for our US customers and offer better rates to our Canadian and international customers. Please allow approximately 48 hours for US tracking numbers to become active in the USPS system (after your initial shipping notification arrives) or feel free to message for the internal tracking number for my shipping service to show the movement before it enters the USPS system. Please note our processing time is currently 1 to 2 weeks for production. This does not include shipping timelines.
These ideas of fun ways to teach mitosis are fun for both students and teachers. This list includes some classic ideas and few new modern approaches.
Christian lessons for elementary school-age kids: Ceate edible models of bone parts, use stickers to label the bones on your body, dissect soup bones and muscles, design workouts for individual muscle groups, and more!
Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.
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 …
Students can use this foldable to relate plate tectonics to the formation of crustal features.
5 Free Paper Circuit Templates - Paper circuits are great makerspace projects for teaching electricity & circuits. Paper Circuit Tutorial PDF
What is friction? This simple balloon hovercraft can show you how to reduce friction.
Sometimes it feels crazy overwhelming to keep assessing students and know exactly what they do/don’t understand. That’s where these quick and easy formative assessment ideas comes in! M…
Kids make this simple binocular craft with yarn and colored tape using recycled TP rolls.
A great science introduction that introduces your students to science and its processes and helps you gain important insight into your students.
Are your children interested in what happens at night? We are often out when it is dark. Last night we were at a park and were able to lie down on the grass and look at the stars - and just listen. We
Here is the foldable classifying cloud types by their position in the atmosphere. The info inside is kept quite simple and concise for our fourth grade needs. The book is made from copy paper or cardstock. Cut the 8 1/2" x 11" paper into four strips, lengthwise. Each student will get two of these. Slightly off-set the strips before folding, and fold so they are off-set. This provides the graduated page lengths. The clouds are just hand-cut, though the title one is pop-dotted. The cirrus were kept wispy, and the stratus smoother and more narrow.
This versatile new line of science resources for 4th and 5th grade teachers was created to help solve common issues. What can I do if a student was absent during a lab or activity? How can I meet students’ 504 and IEP accommodations? How can I provide support to new students and have missed material I previously taught? What ... Read more
A blog about homeschooling little ones with a Unit Style Approach.
So we just finished a chapter in Science and that means it was time for a lab or experiment. The last lesson we hit was on Genetics...which can be super tough for 5th! Explaining the concept and having the students truly understand was tricky. We started out by watching the free Brainpop video on traits and heredity (its even one of their FREE ones) that reinforced our concepts and vocab from the book. I sometimes do these videos first to introduce a topic or do them after as a review and stop for vocab. We do the quiz together and reinforce what we have been talking about. After our big test, I wanted to take it a step further. My students really seemed interested in this topic so I came up with Monster Genetics! We did this lab as a fun way to review dominant and recessive traits! Basically you play "rock, paper, scissors" to come up with which gene you inherit from that parent and then you display the dominant or recessive trait based on the 2 genes (genotype) you have. My students had a BLAST being so creative while reinforcing what we already learned and using the vocab we covered. I included monster bodies, directions, lab sheets, Punnett square pages to cross your monsters (for higher level classes), dominant/recessive trait posters, samples, and more.... click any of the pictures to check it out! It was great so fun to have some theme worked into upper elementary. I love that I got a chance to do something October related for the season all while connecting it to curriculum. We've had some more monster themed goodness happening as well....stay tuned...
Cub Scout Erosion Experiment: My oldest son (8-years old when I wrote this Instructable) is in Cub Scouts. As part of one of the requirements we were trying to fulfill, our Wolf/Bear Den (combined meeting) performed Elective 15, Water and Soil Conservation, to earn an arrow. (Th…
One of the problems I have run into time and again while teaching my kids is the inability to understand a concept that was not easy to reproduce right in […]
I absolutely LOVE teaching with foldables. I was introduced to them about 5 years ago when I was classroom neighbors with a former elementary teacher. Once she showed me a foldable and I saw how great it was, I took the idea and ran with it. Now I use them in almost every chapter! If you've never used foldables, or don't use them very often, here are some reasons why I frequently use this teaching strategy with my students: 1 - Foldables are great for both my visual and my kinesthetic learners. Visual because I usually require some sort of drawing/picture/diagram to be on the foldable, and kinesthetic because the students must manipulate the paper as they're writing notes and studying. 2 - Foldables are notes and study tools, all in one! My students write their class notes right in their foldable, and when it's finished they have a great way to quiz themselves when studying for the chapter test! 3 - Foldables are more interesting and interactive than regular notes. Just writing notes on a page is prety boring to the majority of students, but when they have to decide which section of a foldable to put the notes in, and when they have to include pictures/diagrams of the concept, suddenly the content is much more engaging! 4 - Foldables help students organize information. Let's face it, many middle school students cannot organize information on a page. But when they create a foldable to put their information in, it's much easier to organize information by topic. 5 - Foldables can still be used with Interactive Science Notebooks. This is my first year using ISN's and my students love the fact that we can glue foldables right into the ISN's. It adds a whole new element to their notebook! Here's a picture of a foldable that I made with my 7th grade students today. This one is what we will use to record information about each of the layers of the atmosphere. As you can see, foldables to me are so much more than just folding a piece of paper! After we write down information about each of the layers, I give the students a chance to process that information by decorating the front. The pictures that they use must correlate to what is actually in the atmospheric layer. So for instance, weather happens in the troposphere (bottom layer) so I drew a cloud in the troposphere. On the right side of the foldable I have them draw "air particles" to show that air pressure decreases as altitude increases. So ultimately, even if a student is not much of a reader or studier, just looking at the front of the foldable will give them a lot of the information that they need to know! Even though my students may sometimes feel like they're in an art or origami class rather than science, and even though I may have convinced my classes last year that I have a degree in paper folding ;), I'd definitely say that this is one of my favorite teaching strategies, and one that I definitely feel yields results! Rachel
A celebration of the beauty of moths.
Just for you Texas teachers!!! THIS is a BUNDLE of TEKS "I can" Learning Target Posters for 4th Grade. It Includes 4 subjects: Math English Language Arts and Reading (Updated 2019) Science (2018 Streamlined Science TEKS) Social Studies There are 4 design options included for each TEKS: Large Cursive Poster (Full page) Large Print Poster (Full page) Small Cursive Poster (Half page) Small Print Poster (Half page) This BUNDLE of "I can" Learning Target posters is written using the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for 4th Grade. These are NOT rewritten in kid friendly language, as it is important that the students master the academic language presented in the TEKS. These bold posters will make it easy for you and your students to know exactly what is being taught. They can be used on an objectives board or placed at centers to direct student learning. Each TEK has a large 8 1/2"x11" page. All the TEKS and standards are written in bold black ink for easy printing and visibility in the classroom. Each Poster is also provided in a half page size for journals or stations. This design includes checkboxes at the bottom of every standard, so you can indicate to your students whether the learning is new, in progress, or mastery level! Also included are header posters to display above your learning targets. Thanks, Mrs. Marino's Teachery
This is part 5 of a 7 part hands-on unit study on anatomy of the human body. Walk through your circulatory system, create a blood model and fake movie blood, measure your heart rate, dissect a heart, and more! These lessons are geared toward 4th-5th grade level children and their siblings. They were written by another creative mom for our weekly homeschool co-op. We meet each week for 2 1/2 hours and have 33 children between the ages of 1-13. Use these fun lessons with your classroom, family, af
You can use chalk and alcohol to perform chromatography to separate the pigments in food coloring or ink. The project produces colored chalk.
