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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

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

Earthquake Experiments

One thing I like to put emphasis on during our earth changes unit is helping my students understand just how destructive earthquakes can be along

This foldable activity can be used for any idea in the elementary classroom and makes a beautiful display on a bulletin board - like a quilt! Plus- it's engaging for students! Check out this step by step tutorial!

A Quilt with Class!

Are you looking for a way to jazz up your bulletin board? I have always been a huge fan of any form of foldables, so

Teaching science with this mentor text is a great way to start off teaching about the scientific method and experiments! Check out the details for this book on this post!

MTM: 11 Experiments That Failed

Are you looking for a good mentor text to introduce the concepts of the scientific method to your students? Perhaps you are about to have

Teaching about plants during science does not have to be boring. Check out these ways to be engaging while teaching science and plant activities!

Making Plants Engaging Through Plant Activities

This month in science we have been exploring living things and more specifically, plants. Sometimes plants can be a bit boring. Flashback—my college course. The