This product will not be useful to you unless your school uses the Amplify Science curriculum. For more information about Amplify, visit their website or watch a short youtubevideo about their program.

Your PDF download includes:

• the Middle School Evolutionary History Key Concepts & Glossary pages:
  • First printout consists of one page containing the key concepts with blanks for the students to fill in and one page that contains the glossary for the unit.
  • Second printout consists of one page containing the key concepts with the blanks already filled in and the lessons where those key concepts are introduced listed in parenthesis

• a link to a semi-editable Google Slides and a Microsoft PowerPoint that contains the Evolutionary History Key Concepts. These slides can be copied and pasted into the Amplify presentation so students will have a visual to use during class while taking notes. Text boxes with the words that go in the blanks are included on each slide so that teachers can delete or animate them as needed.

Why Should I Buy This?

If you struggled to keep up with Amplify Science’s Word Walls, then this is the product for you! I use Amplify Science to teach 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science. I found it impossible to manage 4 different word walls, so I came up with this system instead. At the beginning of each unit, I pass out the “Key Concepts & Glossary” page and students either put it in the rings of their binder or the brads of their folder. Even though everything is online for 6th-8th grade and in their notebook for 5th grade, there are a few pages (such as compiled class lab data or important excerpts from articles or books) that I print off and students add to their binders or folders for each unit so we can refer to them later. We don’t throw away any of these important pages. I have students put a sticky note on the “Key Concepts & Glossary” page we are currently working on so they can find it quickly.