Learn about cells for kids with FREE All About Cells reader, Cells worksheets, edible DNA model, Cells Game, and more human body activities for kids.
Our plant and animal cell worksheets include the perfect visuals for your animal cell project in Grade 6. Animal cell poster ideas are here!
Easily boost your science learning fun with these 15 free cells worksheets (human and plants) for awesome activities for kids.
My kids weren't really interested in learning about cells until I said slime. Okay, it was a fairly cheap trick since I knew they loved slime. But I also knew that slime would be the perfect way to learn about cells. I can't say I've ever touched cytoplasm but it sounds very slime-like to me.
Cells have more in common across species than students think. Grab these cell worksheets to help visualize the similariites and differences beteween cells.
Coloring pages and flash cards to study cell parts is a perfect start to introduce science that is engaging.
Mitosis and Meiosis Teaching Ideas: Coloring Activities, Video Project Ideas, and Animations for teaching cell division. Blog Post by Science with Mrs. Lau
Easily boost your science learning fun with these 15 free cells worksheets (human and plants) for awesome activities for kids.
One of my favorite parts of the cell unit is teaching about membranes. If you ask me, they are by far the most important part of the cell. Everything the cell does is because it is responding to signals received by the membrane. While many students think the nucleus is in charge, it is in ... Read more
So one of my goals this year was to put student work up on the walls in my classroom. You see, with 200+ students, how do I put all students' work up? Well that's just it... I don't. I was already collecting sample work from students (you know, keeping the REALLY good ones to show next year's students what their final product should look like), but wasn't doing anything with those samples aside from keeping them in a drawer until the following year. That's when I decided that it was time to put those samples up on the wall. I realized that I don't have to put up samples from EVERY student... meaning, I don't have to put up the eye-sores non-sample work. Below are pictures of what now adorns my very colorful and educational wall. I have already referenced projects on the wall several times... And my 8th graders are reminded of the science they forget from learned in 7th grade. Fun, right? And after receiving numerous emails requesting templates to make some of the foldables shown above, I decided to make a few tutorial posts. You see, my students are AMAZING artists and therefore none of the above projects required templates. Just instructions. So here they are. Organization of Life Foldable Tutorial Cells Foldable Tutorial Cell Cycle Foldable Tutorial Happy Projecting! (I know, I totally made that word up.)
Edible animal cells are sure to help your students remember the animal cell organelles and their functions. Read more and grab free posters on this post!
I recently developed a slight obsession with Shrinky Dinks. It was one of my favorite crafting activities as a child, and now as a mom, my daughter is having fun with it too. If you’ve never used it, it’s basically thin sheets of plastic that you can cut and color and then bake in the oven, […]
Teaching cells for elementary school kids? Check out this simple introduction and cool plant and animal cell organelles project!
Grab a set of marshmallow and toothpick geometry cards to print and build with your kids. It is such a fun way to learn geometric shapes!
Here are 10 easy tips for teaching cells in your classroom - Getting Nerdy Science
As we learned about different smarts each day last week, we added pieces to our MI magnet man. Now that we have learned about all eig...
Next time you need hands-on plant activities, check out this post where I walk you through a variety of activities for teaching the needs of plants, the parts of plants and their functions, photosynthesis, a plant's life cycle, pollination, plant cells, chlorophyll, plant adaptations, and so much more! Click through to learn more!
Is it REALLY November already?! Let me just say that October flew by with work, life, and party planning! I always throw a huge Halloween party for my girls, and this year...it was awesome! Sooo, even though I have had things to post about, I truly haven't had much time to sit down. I don't know about any of you, but I'm the type of person that is a little OCD and gets lost in the details. I can't just blog about nothing, unless it's a super quick spare of the moment giveaway! Soooo, you're going to get caught up in this post that's sure to be filled with pictures and the business that is my life right now. :) WHERE DO I START?! I'll introduce you to my giant plant and animal cells I created for our hallway! I LOVED how they turned out and they always made me smile as approached my classroom. :) They accented my students' cell labeling projects. These were super simple and quick to make. I just drew them and painted them. The eyes were created from paper plates, at the suggestion of one of my coworkers...great idea! I made the arms, legs, and mouth from black construction paper, and the shoes were a group effort between myself and the same coworker that gave me the idea for the eyes. :) It's nice to have another creative mind around! Here are some samples of the student work that was around my super cell figures! Okay, let's see..what can I show you next? Let's look at what we are doing during our Daily 5 time! Which, I have to be honest...this is the first year that I started implementing Daily 5 into my classroom and I know the "sisters" would not approve! I am still ironing out the details...but for me, it's a GREAT option to incorporate into my weekly Reading routine AND the kids LOVE it!!! This is our small group time. I call up my students in groups of four and five and work with them on various Reading and Language Arts skills. I have even done this for Math, and I have to be honest...it's wonderful! Our classes are typically somewhere between 23-26 students, so to break that down and focus on individual needed skills...goooooood stuff! We also work on our Interactive Reading Journals, thanks to Nicole Shelby. :) LOVE them! Here's a look at our Daily 5 centers... You'll see that we get quite comfortable in my room. Pretty much anything goes as far as where they want to sit to work on what they're doing. These girls are PARTNER READING under my front table. I make sure that they are checking for comprehension after each page. Their discussions are really wonderful...very proud of them! Read to Self...enough said, lol. Tooo cute!! I PROMISE that I didn't make any of them pose for this...I found them like this and of course they wanted to giggle when they saw me with my camera! Love my kids. My girls are a little more serious. :) Word Work...this is done using my Interactive Writing Center. I WILL NEVER not use this! It's working out so well and has really created a great way for my kids to experiment and create so many different kinds of writing! Here's a super small sample of what comes with my center! Word Work... I use our weekly spelling words for this part of the Daily 5. My kids do SOOO much with this one! Three things that we do are use the magnetic letters to spell the words. Another thing that we do is use ABC letter beads to string the letters and create words onto pipe cleaners (this is their favorite...)!! They also have dry erase packs to write one and wipe off their words, while their partner quizzes them. I don't have my Listen to Reading center up and running yet. I'm still working on this one! (I told you it wasn't perfect. oh well! We make it work!!) I'm waiting for my students' stories to be loaded onto a disc and my classroom computers just got fixed this week. This will be coming soon!! Let's interrupt school time with a weekend at the lake... I love my family. I loved my time at the lake...we all know that as teachers, we all need a little R&R! Okay, back to work!! Let's just start by saying that I LOVE technology! There are a couple of things that I can't get enough of...my Smart Board AND my Hovercam! My kids use the Smart Board all the time to do interactive academic games. Learning has become so much fun!! No child should ever say "I don't want to go to school." School is wonderful...here are a couple of my kiddos "playing." Here are some anchor charts that I created during a mean, median, mode, and range lesson. I will be loading a great freebie activity this week that you guys can grab that went along with this. It's SO MUCH FUN!! I also have a great interactive PPT that I did, as well. Tepee TiMe!!!! During our time studying Native American tribes, my kiddos learned about Plains Indians. We talked about the nomadic Plains Indians and their use of tepees for shelter. I create a tepee each year and teach my students about Native American symbols and sign language and how these were forms of communication for each of the tribes. They get to choose a Native American symbol that they feel best represents themselves and then paint it onto the side of the tepee. They LOVE it! I use this as a reward in my classroom. They can't wait to see who gets to go into the tepee each day! We are also working on Native American calendar robes. Here's a peek at my students working on those... PROUD... I spent some time seeing two of my students doing something that they LOVE! One is an avid dirt bike racer and the other is fabulous at 4-H! It was so much fun spending time with them outside of school. I also had a girl from my class travel all the way to the Alamo in Texas to compete in a national shooting competition! Way to go, kids! I think that will be all for now! Be sure to follow me for future posts on what's going on in my classroom. :) I hope you liked my fall "catch up" post! Goodbye for now!! ONE MORE LITTLE THING FOR.....YOU!!! STOP OVER TO MY FRIEND MEG'S BLOG! You can enter an UNBELIEVABLE giveaway that I am thrilled to be a part of! It's five days of amazing opportunities to win some great prizes!
planning some of our Science curriculum, I couldn't help but find so many great human body learning activities for kids.
Here are 10 easy tips for teaching cells in your classroom - Getting Nerdy Science
Looking for a fun and educational craft? Try this paper plate animal cell activity! Learn about the functions of animal cells while creating a masterpiece.
Cells- they are the basic unit of function and structure of life and tie EVERYTHING into biology. As we delve into genetics, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, these are all processes that occur inside the cell. Evolution
Trying to teach the cell theory timeline? I love teaching my students about cell theory in a variety of ways. Here are some of my favorite...
The ticket system has been a game-changing classroom management strategy for my own high school science classroom.
A few days ago, I posted a picture on my Instagram account that got a really positive response. You guys saw my self-directed learning progression and you all said you wanted it! Since you wanted it, it's up for free in my Teachers Pay Teachers store, so grab it now before you forget!! Click here or on the picture below to grab your copy. I like this learning progression because it helps the students to assess where they are in three areas: academics, problem-solving capabilities, and social-emotional development. The rubric is also growth mindset-friendly because it moves from "Not Yet" all the way to "Wow!!!" I used my school's poster maker to make a big copy of this progression. It hangs on our wall next to our class rules. We refer to it often. I also use these with students sometimes--they just circle the one they feel best describes where they are at a given moment. I have two versions of the rubric, one that mentions "CARES" (a Responsive Classroom idea) and one that just mentions "good classroom citizenship." Pick the one that works for you and start using it! If you don't discuss CARES in your classroom, I absolutely recommend introducing it at the beginning of the year. These social skills are all-encompassing. If you've got these 5 qualities under control, you're in a really good place! I always mention these to my students and say that one of our class goals will be to develop these qualities as individuals. Did you download the learning progression yet? If not, what are you waiting for?! Click here to grab it! By the way, if you haven't already subscribed, we'd love to have you! Join our community by signing up in the box right under my bio to the right. That way, you won't miss any blog posts. I promise not to clutter your inbox! Make sure to follow me on Instagram for more classroom ideas than I put on my blog.
Great review, homework assignment or primary study tool for students working with the four groups of organic molecules (also called biomolecules or macromolecules). An optional word bank is provided on a separate sheet of paper for students struggling with the concepts or vocabulary. Space on the gr...
My kids weren't really interested in learning about cells until I said slime. Okay, it was a fairly cheap trick since I knew they loved slime. But I also knew that slime would be the perfect way to learn about cells. I can't say I've ever touched cytoplasm but it sounds very slime-like to me.
Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.
Teach genetics to your students to help them learn about traits being passed down from parents to their offspring with this fun demonstration.
The past few years I’ve had the opportunity to teach a course entirely through project based learning. Our local university approached a couple of schools in our district and asked us if we were interested in teaching a cross-curricular PBL program where our grade 12 students can earn college credits. Ummmm…. heck yeah! Basically, the ... Read more
So one of my goals this year was to put student work up on the walls in my classroom. You see, with 200+ students, how do I put all students' work up? Well that's just it... I don't. I was already collecting sample work from students (you know, keeping the REALLY good ones to show next year's students what their final product should look like), but wasn't doing anything with those samples aside from keeping them in a drawer until the following year. That's when I decided that it was time to put those samples up on the wall. I realized that I don't have to put up samples from EVERY student... meaning, I don't have to put up the eye-sores non-sample work. Below are pictures of what now adorns my very colorful and educational wall. I have already referenced projects on the wall several times... And my 8th graders are reminded of the science they forget from learned in 7th grade. Fun, right? And after receiving numerous emails requesting templates to make some of the foldables shown above, I decided to make a few tutorial posts. You see, my students are AMAZING artists and therefore none of the above projects required templates. Just instructions. So here they are. Organization of Life Foldable Tutorial Cells Foldable Tutorial Cell Cycle Foldable Tutorial Happy Projecting! (I know, I totally made that word up.)
Have you thought about project-based learning in your homeschool? I developed this step-by-step guide to help homeschool parents use this method.
Homeschooling a child with dysgraphia presents unique challenges. Learn how to beat dysgraphia with these 8 strategies!
Top 5 apps for teacher productivity: Use these tools to save time and energy with decision-making, lesson-planning, and prepping!
Free Science Worksheets and notebooking pages for science journals. Includes labeling, cut & paste, life cycles, and more! These free printable science activities are great for homeschool or class use.
Chromosomes store the information in your cells that make you, YOU! Grab the free science worksheets and read more for lots of learning and teaching resources about chromosomes and DNA.
Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!
One of the great things about homeschooling is that we can present material in a variety of ways until we find something that 'clicks'. Learning the roles of various organelles is a standard part of
Learning about the Human Body is great fun! Exploring and understanding the amazing structure and design within the composition of human life, inevitably points to a Creator. Oh what a blessing to be made in
Plan these simple and fun Paper bag STEM challenges for kids! Easy STEM activities that use what's around to encourage invention and design.
You can teach your students to recognize similarities and differences between plant and animal cells when you use these five simple steps to teach your students.
