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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

There's a constant push on teachers to create interdisciplinary lessons, especially in order to cover more academic standards. This post shares five ways to integrate writing into your science class, so click through to read all of the ideas!

5 Ideas on How to Integrate Writing into Science

If your classroom is like mine, then you have very few minutes in the day. I have occasionally joked about having to follow my kids

Make teaching the science of germs and spreading illnesses hands on with this fun teaching idea in your elementary classroom!

Teaching Students About Germs

So students are sniffling and coughing. I know I’ve had virtually every cold out there, especially during my first year of teaching, but that doesn’t

Why does Diet Coke float and regular Coke sink? Students explore density and buoyancy through this engaging science experiment activity on physical matter!

Why does Diet Coke Float and Regular Coke Sink?

When my kids were younger we were always looking for ways to “entertain” them. One way we did this was through an exciting science experiment

Explore density with your elementary students while creating lava lamps in this free science activity.

Teaching Density with Lava Lamps

I love science experiments! It doesn’t matter what area of science – physical, life, or earth – we are working on, I try to find

Classification is one of those skills that are necessary to teach when teaching science, especially when teaching about the scientific method. This engaging activity is a way to help students understand how scientists classify living things (dichotomous key).

Classification with Silly Science

When we begin our classification unit of vertebrate and invertebrate animals, I always like to start off with this fun activity from Science Spot. This activity

Do you want some engaging hands-on, science experiments to teach your elementary students about physical and chemical weathering? Look no further! Check out these science ideas!

Physical and Chemical Weathering Experiments

Team Weathering and Erosion are always working together when it comes to changing the Earth’s surface. Since recently I shared some hands-on erosion experiments, I

Check out this fun force and motion activity with a freebie for Halloween, where students learn the relationship between force, speed, and distance!

Flying Pumpkins: A Force and Motion Activity

We have been studying Force and Motion in the classroom and with Halloween coming up, I really wanted to tie it to something we were learning. Yes,

Engage students with these simple, fun hands-on science experiments that explore the earth science concept of erosion! Check out these engaging ideas and activities!

Can YOU Stop Erosion?

Erosion. It’s a natural process of the Earth that is unstoppable, right? Why not find out The best way to find out is to set

Teaching rocks and minerals in science is engaging and motivating with this simple science experiment! Check out this activity!

Using Crayons for Teaching Rocks

My last year in college I needed one more credit in science. I decided to take Geology. If only I had taken that course early

Do you Fault on Teaching Earthquakes?

I absolutely love earth science and I want to share some of the fun, interactive, hands-on activities that I do every year while teaching earthquakes

Teach the scientific method to your students through these ideas and science experiments! Check this out to learn more about how you can make the scientific method engaging!

Teaching the Scientific Method

It’s hard to believe that it’s time to get back into the swing of things and start planning for the new school year. It’s always

Earthquake Simulation

One of my favorite activities to simulate with students when discussing the slow and fast changes of the earth is this earthquake simulation. I just

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