Hemenway Science

Need sub plans? Showing the movie October Sky to coincide with your physics unit? Here are 28 questions for students to answer while watching the movie. This will help keep the students focused!

Here is a quick rubric that students can use at the end of a project. Students are able to rate themselves and each member on different attributes. There is also a group self evaluation checklist that allows groups to reflect on their accomplishments and improvements that could be made next time. This is an EDITABLE copy. You can use one rubric or both.

Provided is the link for the Google Slides document to share with your students. Students will be able to force a copy of the Slides into their Google Drive, so everyone can edit their own document. This ONLINE GOOGLE SLIDES document is on Animal Behavior Research. Students are given 20 different animals; such as Drone flies, widow birds, and dolphins taking care of the injured, and will conduct research on the animal’s behavior. Out of twenty different animal behaviors, students will choose

This now includes BOTH PAPER AND DIGITAL VERSIONS! Students can create their map in a Google Slides Presentation!This project allows students to make a pirate map to help pirates navigate their wind powered ships through the global winds. Students will need to include information creatively on the global wind patterns and the Coriolis Effect. Provided are a list of questions students will have to creatively include on their map. In this document I have four different world maps and a compass pic

Are you looking for an engaging project to wrap up Mendelian Punnett Squares? This is it! Students will be engaged as they ‘create a baby’. It is relevant to them, as they love DC and Marvel. Students will pick a mom and a dad from a bag. The superheroes and villains include Superman, Spiderman, Flash, Black Panther, Thanos, Super Girl, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, Scarlet Witch, and Hela…plus MORE! To organize the information for this project, I have created a class set of booklets. Included

Edit this document to customize homework passes for your class. I allow them to use it for homework except any at home projects or labs that needed to be completed at home. At the end of the marking period I allow students to turn them in for extra credit. Now includes a Digital editable version with Google Slides!

This lab allows students to observe Transverse and Longitudinal Waves with Slinkies. They will also complete an activity on Wavelength, Frequency, and Amplitude using the Slinky. Materials:-Slinky-3 pieces of stringo You will tie one piece of string each to the beginning, middle and end to the loops of the slinky. This will help you see the amplitude and end points.

This lab allows students to color all the pieces of a DNA strand. First they will assemble nucleotides and then form a DNA strand. They will show DNA replication by separating the strands they made and pairing the old strands with the complimentary base pairs. I had students glue their strands to the large pieces of construction paper. One model on one side and the other model on the other side. Conclusion questions are also part of the activity in which students will have to describe replicat

Students will be using a dichotomous key to classify 14 different sharks. Students will answer analysis questions and will create their own dichotomous key on pine needles. Included is the paper copy as well as a link for a digital copy. When you click the link below, a window will open that will prompt you to Make a copy. Click the BLUE ‘Make a Copy’ Button. This will then make a copy of the document into your Google Drive. From there, you can upload the document to Google Classroom or another

In this document you will find matching cards that cover Amoebas, Parameciums, Euglena and Volvoxes. The cards cover how they move, how they feed and the specialized structures that make them up. They can be laminated and used over and over. I was short on laminating sheets so I cut out the cards and glued them to notecards. In order to save your sanity, place a letter on the back of all the cards for one deck. This way when one card shows up on the floor, it will be easy to see which deck it be

Students will be completing a webquest on Amoebas, Paramecium, Euglenas, and Volvox. This works as a great introduction to the Protists or even as a review. A digital and paper copy are both included! Included is the link for a digital copy. When you click the link below, a window will open that will prompt you to make a copy. Click the BLUE ‘Make a Copy’ Button. This will then make a copy of the document into your Google Drive. From there, you can upload the document to Google Classroom or ano

This can be used as a lab, as an in class activity as part of stations, or a homework assignment. Students will be observing two rock sites and analyze the rock layers of each. They will be justifying why certain fossils are present.

Included is an EDITABLE cell phone policy. Your student and their parents/guardians will sign it. It includes proper times when students can be on their phones/devices and when they cannot. It also lays out detailed consequences. If you have devices in your classroom that students can use like Chrome books or iPads, you can add that in to the policy. I purchased a pocket holder that has numbers on it from Amazon and have it hanging on my filing cabinet with command hooks.

This can be used for a middle school or high school science class after learning about the stages of mitosis. It makes a great hands on activity to be done in groups. Students will also be creatively writing! I make groups no more than 4 people. This project will allow for a lot of creative freedom as there are many entry points for all students. My students complete this during two class periods. Student work samples are included. Now included in this document is a Google Slides Digital Version

Materials needed: meter sticks, string/yarn, balloons(2 per group), scissors In this inquiry lab, students will discover that, yes, air does have mass. For this activity, you can have students set up this with partners/small groups or you can just make one set up and do this as a demo. If you do this as a demo students can still complete the lab form. This can work during stations as well. This is a very inexpensive lab, especially if you just do this as a demo in front of the class.

This is a fun way to review the 4 Macromolecules: Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids. Students will be divided into two teams. On a wall or board, the names of the 4 macromolecules will be posted. Each team will send one person up to the board and be given a flyswatter. You will read a statement provided and the students at the board need to determine which macromolecule the statement is referring to. When they know the answer, they will swat the correct word on the board with th

Here is a lab for middle school on Series and Parallel Circuits. The materials needed are as follows: Materials: 2 light bulbs attached to holdersC-batteryD-battery4-5 wiresStudents will also be required to draw pictures of their circuits and answer questions pertaining to them.

Provided are questions for students to follow along while watching the movie, GATTACA. There are short answer questions and also four questions that require longer, sentence responses.

This lab works great in a middle school science class! There are two experiments students will complete: one with Alka Seltzer and making Slime. There is brief writing included in the lab

Here are 8 stations that cover Mendelian Genetics and Pedigrees (involving Mendelian genetics). All you need to do is print them out and hang them up! An answer key is provided.