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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

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!

STEM challenges intimidating you? Don't let them! STEM challenges are an excellent way to teach and foster a wealth of authentic, hands-on learning, as well as skills such as critical thinking, creative thinking, perseverance, cross-curricular connections, and more. This guest post goes over the basics of STEM challenges--materials, iterations, and more--as well as the benefits of facilitating them.

STEM Challenges: Basics and Beliefs

Today, I have a special guest post by my friend Kerry of the blog Plans for a Better Tomorrow. She is writing about STEM, as

Creative Ways to Make Science Engaging & Memorable

When you ask students what science makes them think of, there are two groups. There is a group of kids who think of science experiments

Photosynthesis is often a challenging topic to teach students, because it's hard to conceptualize and understand. Starting off your plants unit with a role playing activity about photosynthesis is the perfect way to get students engaged and to help them visualize how photosynthesis works!

Making Photosynthesis Engaging to Upper Elementary

Photosynthesis is a difficult concept for third graders – even older grades really, depending on how in-depth you go with it. When I teach my

Studying vertebrates and invertebrates makes for fun lessons for students - like this one, where kids get to make "animals" out of playdough and then stack wooden blocks on top! Read more about how to implement this lesson in this post.

Vertebrates vs Invertebrates

Not too long ago in science, we were exploring the differences between vertebrates and invertebrates. Of course, most students are quick to tell you that