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Becoming a Paleontologist Students will make two paleontological claims with evidence and reasoning using the index fossil data provided. Practice identifying and interpreting index fossil data. Practice using claim, evidence, and reasoning.

This activity has students utilizing a simple "rated" decision-making matrix to create a claim with evidence and reasoning. Students are provided a problem regarding which sandwich John should buy and then provided some options from which to choose based on specific criteria. This is a word document that can be edited.

This activity has students utilizing a simple "rated" decision-making matrix to create a claim with evidence and reasoning. Students are provided a problem regarding which sport Sally should sign up for and then provided some options from which to choose based on specific criteria. This is a word document that can be edited.

Designed to print on a half sheet for composition notebooks. Show the proportional relationship between distance, rate, and time (when time is constant) by using a triangle. Demonstrate how to use the triangle to find the equation to solve each type of problem. Three example problems given, then 9 independent practice problems provided. Problems are simple enough for students that are just beginning to multiply and divide with rational numbers. Editable document and answer key provided.

This is a worksheet/lesson idea for middle school students who are just beginning to consider potential energy and kinetic energy as a system. It has students calculating potential and kinetic energy, however, they will find kinetic energy by subtracting from the mechanical energy of the entire system (i.e. without velocity). Students will then synthesize their understanding by writing how they calculated kinetic energy without velocity and why it is important that the mechanical energy at each

Doodle notes with practice worksheet covering Rutherford-Bohr Models. Standard: MS-PS1-1. Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.

Worksheet that helps students understand how to convert a distance over time graph to a speed over time graph by calculating the slope of a constant rate/linear function. The worksheet is editable and does come with an answer key.

Students are provided a debrief from a crime scene set on Christmas morning as well as a graph showing Fingerprint Similarity Percentages from the Unknown Suspect's fingerprints found on the mystery package and five known suspects. Students are using claim, evidence, and reasoning to choose the most likely suspect that left the mystery package. Students then participate in a class discussion where they must use the evidence that they see and/or calculate to support their claims. My classes had

Powerpoint handout of doodle notes on fossils. Includes fossil definition, fossilization process steps, and the types of fossils. Key is provided.

At the schools I have worked at we called the beginning activity as bell ringers, warm ups, starters, or do nows. No matter what you call it, these are some great quick activities to get students writing in science class! Students are encouraged to provide a claim and give some evidence to support those claims.

Supplies Needed - pipe insulation (each group gets about 3.6 meters of insulation) - one small marble - masking tape - meter stick - triple beam balance (if you have one, if not an average marble has a mass of 5.6 g or 0.0056 kg) Students used the black pipe insulation as a track to build a rollercoaster with a loop. Students aren't allowed to collect supplies until they have proposed heights of the rollercoaster and then calculated the potential energy of the three locations on the di

Students will devise a boulder booby-trap to take out any fedora-wearing intruders! Students are testing whether the mass or volume of the 'boulder' alters the speed, or if the slope of the ramp alters the speed of the ball. Students will collect data in the data table and create graphs in Excel. Includes a template for students to fill in as they test factors.

I made this product in my second year of teaching and students always remembered it. I would make little booklets for each student and we would come back to this vocabulary list time and time again as we continued our way through the electricity unit. I've included an answer key that I made with students. I would often use my document camera and move through the notes with students in real time. Some pages are upside down in the Google Slide - trust me! This is for ease of printing!

A project where students perform independent research, design a demonstration, and then present their demonstrations to peers. In this file, I provide a template for the research, demonstration design, as well as the notes template when they are watching presentations. I have inserted a teacher's guide as well with some helpful hints or tricks from my class.

This is a 6-page booklet of guided doodle notes that cover Isaac Newton and the three laws of motion. I recommend using this as a resource that students continue to fill in over the course of several days and access as you supplement the notes with labs and activities. My students really enjoyed the conversations that sparked from these notes. Contents of the BookletNewton's Biography Force Definition Free-Body Diagrams (basic - MS appropriate) 1st Law of Motion (Inertia and Momentum, object

Please do not purchase this unless you have rulers and marbles to do the lab. It requires, one or two rulers to make a small track for the marbles to move on and at least 4 small marbles and one larger marble. This is a worksheet I used for solidifying my student's thinking about the conservation of momentum. They LOVED the lab and the key takeaways at the end really sealed the deal as they were telling me what to write by the end. Great practice of following a procedure, writing a prediction,

Article from: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/the-many-challenges-of-corralling-a-coronavirus-outbreakQuestions on the reading along with an answer key. Follow up from this article with questions: Reading

Pastel watercolor C-E-R signs for the classroom.

To go with the following Science News for Students Article: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/explainer-what-is-a-coronavirusIntroduction of coronaviruses for middle school students.

Guided notes on scientific notation or Powers of Ten by identifying the patterns. Several different templates for differentiation. Blank, partial, and filled in notes for all learners.