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SCIENCE

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

Finding Funding for Science and STEM

Sometimes trying to come up with the money to purchase the supplies for engaging science projects, demonstrations, and STEM can be a bit of a

Help your students understand how nonrenewable resources do not last with this hands-on science activity that is perfect for any elementary teacher!

Teaching about Nonrenewable Resources

Renewable and nonrenewable resources make for a great topic when you start thinking about teaching Earth Day. As Earth Day approaches, we want to remind

Earth Day Activity: Mini-Landfills

Every year I look for engaging Earth day activities that I can use in my classroom that are engaging and educational. It’s a difficult task.

Making Electricity Fun

When it comes to teaching science, we can sometimes be quick to cut out the experiments. Or, we do the same activities over and over

10 Ecosystem Project Ideas

When you think about ecosystem project ideas, do you immediately think about dioramas in a shoebox, like this one I found on Pinterest? Don’t get

5 Science Projects for Upper Elementary Students

Learning about science doesn’t just come from a textbook. Experiments and projects make true student scientists! Use these five science projects for upper elementary students

Generating Questions for Science Projects

As you know, science is a subject area that is near and dear to my heart. So, it’s natural that I’m going to jump on

Teach Genetics with Jelly Beans

I know Easter season is over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still find jelly beans. And, if you teach genetics at all, then you

Assessing electricity doesn't have to be a challenge! On the contrary, it can be authentic, engaging, and hands-on! This blog post describes in detail a STEM activity where students take on the role of engineers who have to create electric vests. Watch their minds buckle down and work on this fun STEM challenge!

Assessing Electricity with Electric Vests

I love teaching about electricity. It is one of my favorite science units, and I am always trying to think of new ways to engage

Engage with Holiday Science

Every year without fail, as we get closer and closer to that big starting date of winter break, students become more and more restless. I

Feel Confident Teaching Science (or Any Subject)

Grammar. I loathe grammar. When I was a child, my sister would follow me around and constantly be ready to leap at every little thing

Teaching electricity becomes exciting and suspenseful when you go about it with this engaging scientific demonstration using pickles! Your class will see how a pickle can be turned into a conductor of electricity, as well as a conductor for sound energy and light energy! Your students will love this demonstration, but be sure that it is done by you and NOT the students (for safety reasons)!

Teaching Electricity with Pickles

I’m a huge fan of anticipatory sets! I need to get their attention right away. To start teaching electricity, I really wanted something that would sizzle!

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