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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

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

36 Domain-Specific Easy DIY Math and Science Manipulatives for Upper Elementary

Since the dawn of time, teachers have spent money on classrooms. But with the rising cost of food, energy, and much more, it’s been hard,

Causation Cards will Change the Way You Teach Ecosystems

Teaching ecosystems and food chains isn’t always easy. We could talk about producers, consumers, and decomposers all day, but science concepts like these stick much

Inclusive Classroom Strategies that Save Time Without Extra Prep

6 minutes read time Finding ways to engage every student without suffocating in preparation is an ongoing challenge for educators. In upper elementary inclusive classrooms, let’s

5 Effective ways to review weather and climate

5 Effective Ways to Use a Weather and Climate Review

Are Your Students Retaining What They Learn? Your weather and climate review can sometimes feel repetitive— and frankly, a let-down after the possibly fun and

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Animal vs Plant Cell Showdown: 8 Fun Ways to Teach Cells and Microbes in Elementary

If your district includes animal vs plant cells or microbes in elementary, you know how challenging it can be to find resources. Here are a few fun ideas to teach cells and microbes.

How to engage students with science mysteries

How To Engage Your Students With Science Mysteries

Students may find science boring or difficult, and let’s face it, teachers may feel the same way at times. When introducing science concepts in a

8 Hands-On Activities to Master Food Chains and Food Webs

Isn’t it great to be at the top of the food chain? As human beings, we can rest easy, far from the realm of prey

Check out these five engaging activities to ensure your kiddos will have a blast exploring the differences between inherited traits and learned behaviors!

5 Dynamic Activities for Teaching Inherited Traits & Learned Behavior (with a FREEBIE!)

Nature versus nurture is an age-old debate that shapes every individual in varying ways, and there is still plenty of research to be done. Every

Natural disasters are not explicitly required within the NGSS, but they are still extremely important to teach in your upper elementary science classroom! Check out these eight engaging activities.

8 Engaging Natural Disasters Activities

Let’s get this out of the way: natural disasters are not explicitly required within the Next Generation Science Standards. Regardless, they are still extremely important

Keeping students engaged during the more technical side of Earth science can be challenging, but with this Earth's systems model, you get fun AND learning--the best of both worlds. Go forth and teach!

The BEST Earth’s Systems Model Activity for Upper Elementary

I know, I know—it’s a bit pretentious, isn’t it? To claim that this is the best Earth’s systems modeling activity you’ll ever use in your

This ecosystems collaboration project invites students to create a hands-on structure for an animal that resides within their assigned ecosystem, then collaborate to discover interactions!

Collaborate with this Easy Ecosystems Activity

Ecosystems are all around us… Literally. Okay, sorry. That was kind of cheesy. Regardless, I’m being honest: ecosystems are what make the world go ’round,