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Children are naturally inquisitive and they love exploring science. When you combine my passion for hands-on activities and their curiosity, you’ll definitely have winning content and ideas!

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These solar system scale model ideas are sure to engage your students and help them grasp the understanding of distance and relative size. Check them out!

7 Options for Creating Solar System Scaled Models

Check out these top 10 mistakes teachers make when teaching science. Help your students be successful by knowing what to do in your science classroom!

10 Mistakes Teachers Make When Teaching Science

Make science engaging and memorable with this list of ideas to integrate science into students' daily school routine. Science experiments are fun, but they're usually very short-lived in terms of engagement. I provide a list of alternative ideas that allow teachers to weave science into the school day for long-term impact and to get students used to a higher exposure of science vocabulary and concepts.

Creative Ways to Make Science Engaging & Memorable

Teaching Force and Motion in the Upper Elementary Classroom

Many elementary classrooms have to teach about force and motion, whether you teach the Next Generation Science Standards or a different set of standards that

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!

10 Hands-On Plant Activities

When I was in college, I did not like learning about plants. It was a boring class and the professor had a monotone voice. I

If you're teaching the human body systems, you need to check out this post. It is a collection of valuable freebies, websites, and so much more. Save this pin and click through to learn more!

A Collection of Ideas for Teaching the Human Body Systems

While studying the human body systems is not in the NGSS, it is still a requirement in many science standards across the United States. This

If you're teaching your students through distance learning this year, online PBL projects is a great option! Elementary students can practice critical thinking, independence, and so many other skills! Check out the resources in this post to get started!

Online PBL Projects for Elementary Students

Online learning has so many options available for our students. However, it’s very easy to get into the worksheet trap. Rather than share fill-in worksheets

Are you looking for some STEAM/STEM activities without having to purchase a lot of materials? Check out these activities that use just regular household objects!

STEAM Challenges with Household Objects

Although school buildings are closed, our students are still learning! Even though that means our regular in-class activities are gone this year, you can still

If you're looking for recycling activities, you've landed in the right place! Whether it be for Earth Day, a natural resources unit, or for National Recycling Week in November, I have you covered. Check out these really cool and engaging activities you can do in your upper elementary classroom.

12 Activities for Teaching About Recycling

If you’re looking for recycling activities, you’ve landed in the right place! Whether it be for Earth Day, a natural resources unit, or for National

The best way to learn science is through hands-on experiences. I love sharing these fun, engaging experiments with my students. Here are some fun and simple experiments for upper elementary that you can use with your students right away!

Fun and Simple Experiments for Upper Elementary

The best way to learn science is through hands-on experiences. I love sharing these fun, engaging experiments with my students. The best experiments, however, are

These solar system scale model ideas are sure to engage your students and help them grasp the understanding of distance and relative size. Check them out!

7 Options for Creating Solar System Scaled Models

If you teach the solar system, at some point, you and your students will likely have to create a scale model too. This project doesn’t

Creating a Passion for Reading During Science

If you were to do a google search on instilling the love for reading, you would get back about 12 million hits! That’s incredible. Yet,

Having a Math and Science Night

A math and science night is a lot of work but it’s well worth it. The benefits of families experiencing school as a place of

Help your students understand science vocabulary and retain it better with these five teaching ideas!

5 Activities to Learn Science Vocabulary

Learning science vocabulary can sometimes be boring to a child. And when they already have to learn the concepts too, it can be challenging. With

Activities to Help Teach Scientific Process Skills

At the beginning of the school year, teachers will often focus on teaching the scientific method. It takes many skills to design and carry out

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