Science With Mr Enns

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By Science With Mr Enns
This bundle contains 7 graphing resources that forms a suite of products designed to teach graphing skills to middle school and early high school students.Graphing Skills Addressed:Identifying when to use a line, bar, or circle graph based on
Subjects:
Graphing, Basic Principles, General Science
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, Homeschool
Types:
PowerPoint Presentations, Worksheets, Assessment
CCSS:
8.EE.B.5
$16.50
$13.20
13
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By Science With Mr Enns
A 4-page unit test product (with 4 pages of answer keys) worth 57 points designed for upper middle school and lower high school chemistry students to assess understanding of chemical bonds or chemical bonding. Topics include: what are bonds, ionic
Subjects:
Science, Chemistry, Physical Science
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, Homeschool
Types:
Assessment
$3.00
11
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By Science With Mr Enns
This product contains 2 double-sided unit review worksheets that review and reinforce concepts from a middle school or lower high school unit on the scientific method, experimental design and the SI (metric) system.I typically hand out this review
Subjects:
Measurement, Science, Basic Principles
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th
Types:
Worksheets, Assessment
CCSS:
5.MD.A.1, 5.MD.C.3, 5.MD.C.3a
$3.50
12
Digital Download ZIP (0.39 MB)
By Science With Mr Enns
A 4-page unit test product (with 4 pages of answer keys) worth 50 points designed for upper middle school and lower high school physics students to assess understanding of thermal energy, heat, temperature and heat transfer. Topics include:
Subjects:
Science, Physics, Physical Science
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, Homeschool
Types:
Assessment
$3.00
16
Digital Download ZIP (0.64 MB)
By Science With Mr Enns
This unit bundle contains 8 total resources that forms a suite of products designed to teach metric conversions to middle school and early high school students.Metric Conversion Skills Addressed:The SI or Metric System (An Introduction)Metric
Subjects:
Measurement, Science, Basic Principles
Grades:
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Homeschool
Types:
PowerPoint Presentations, Worksheets, Assessment
$18.75
$15.00
11
Bundle
By Science With Mr Enns
A 2-page quiz product worth a total of 30 points designed for upper middle school and lower high school physics students in order to assess understanding of waves and wave properties. Topics include: what are waves, mediums, mechanical waves,
Subjects:
Science, Physics, Physical Science
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, Homeschool
Types:
Assessment
$2.25
5
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By Science With Mr Enns
A 4-page unit test product (with 4 pages of answer keys) worth 54 points designed for upper middle school and lower high school chemistry students to assess understanding of atomic structure, elements, and the periodic table. Topics include: what
Subjects:
Science, Chemistry, Physical Science
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, Homeschool
Types:
Assessment
$3.00
7
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By Science With Mr Enns
This bundle is a set of 4 worksheets and 4 quizzes that cover basic genetic crosses for upper middle school and lower high school students. Specifically, the resources in this bundle cover the topics of genes and alleles, simple dominance,
Subjects:
Science, Biology, Other (Science)
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, Homeschool
Types:
Worksheets, Activities, Assessment
$17.75
$14.20
5
Bundle
By Science With Mr Enns
This product contains 2 single-page quizzes that covers the skill of creating line and bar graphs to middle school and lower high school students.Both quizzes are identical in format but feature different difficulty levels. To be specific, Quiz (A)
Subjects:
Graphing, Basic Principles, General Science
Grades:
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, Homeschool
Types:
Assessment
CCSS:
8.EE.B.5
$2.50
7
Digital Download ZIP (0.69 MB)
By Science With Mr Enns
This is a custom bundle created for Miranda. It is a collection of mechanical and electromagnetic waves products.Bundle Contents:Part 1: Mechanical Waves, Sound and Hearing (10)WS - What are WavesWS - Properties of WavesWS - Sound and Sound WavesWS
Subjects:
Science, Physics
Grades:
8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, Homeschool
Types:
Worksheets, Unit Plans, Assessment
$63.00
$47.25
Bundle
By Science With Mr Enns
This unit bundle contains 7 total resources that forms a suite of products designed to teach lab equipment and lab techniques to middle school and early high school students.Lab Skills Addressed:Proper lab safety and safety protocolsNames of common
Subjects:
Science, Basic Principles, General Science
Grades:
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th
Types:
PowerPoint Presentations, Worksheets, Assessment
$17.75
$14.20
8
Bundle
By Science With Mr Enns
This is a 4-page unit test for a typical middle school science unit on the scientific method, graphing technique, and experimental design. This test document is designed to take the average middle school science student 45 minutes to complete.All of
Subjects:
Science, Basic Principles, General Science
Grades:
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, Homeschool
Types:
Assessment
$3.00
5
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By Science With Mr Enns
A 2 quiz bundle product that includes 2 separate 1-page quizzes designed for upper middle school and lower high school chemistry students in order to assess understanding of classification of matter. Topics include: pure substances, elements,
Subjects:
Science, Chemistry, Physical Science
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, Homeschool
Types:
Assessment
$3.00
7
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By Science With Mr Enns
This bundle is a set of 5 worksheets and 1 review quiz that covers basic and more advanced gravitational potential energy (GPE=mgh) and kinetic energy (KE=1/2MV2) word problems. I created these 6 resources to be used during a typical middle school
Subjects:
Physics, Word Problems, Physical Science
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, Homeschool
Types:
Worksheets, Assessment
$17.00
$13.60
3
Bundle
By Science With Mr Enns
A 1-page quiz product worth a total of 16 points designed for upper middle school and lower high school physics students in order to assess understanding of calculating gravitational potential energy (GPE=mgh) and kinetic energy (KE=1/2MV2). The
Subjects:
Physics, Word Problems, Physical Science
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, Homeschool
Types:
Assessment
CCSS:
7.EE.B.3
$2.00
8
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By Science With Mr Enns
A 4-quiz bundle product that contains 4 single-page quizzes is designed for upper middle school and lower high school chemistry students in order to assess the skill of balancing chemical equations. All 4 quizzes feature different number of
Subjects:
Science, Chemistry, Physical Science
Grades:
8th, 9th, 10th, Homeschool
Types:
Assessment
$3.50
7
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By Science With Mr Enns
A 1-page quiz product worth a total of 8 points designed for upper middle school and lower high school physics students to assess the use of Newton’s second law (Fnet=ma) to solve a series of 5 leveled word problems. The questions are equally
Subjects:
Physics, Word Problems, Physical Science
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, Homeschool
Types:
Assessment
CCSS:
7.EE.B.3
$2.00
8
Digital Download ZIP (0.09 MB)
By Science With Mr Enns
This is a custom bundle created for Jamie. It is a collection of mechanical wave products (minus PPTs and structure of the ear topics). You may purchase this custom bundle for yourself or request your own custom product by emailing me at
Subjects:
Science, Physics, Physical Science
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, Homeschool
Types:
Worksheets, Unit Plans, Assessment
$33.00
$26.40
Bundle
By Science With Mr Enns
A 4-page unit test product (with 4 pages of answer keys) worth 55 points designed for upper middle school and lower high school physics students to assess understanding of energy. Topics include: what is energy, kinetic energy, potential energy,
Subjects:
Physics, Word Problems, Physical Science
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, Homeschool
Types:
Assessment
CCSS:
7.EE.B.3
$3.00
7
Digital Download ZIP (0.58 MB)
By Science With Mr Enns
This bundle is a set of 8 assessment rubrics that I typically use in a given year. 7 out of the 8 rubrics are single point rubrics. For more information about single point rubrics, including their advantages over traditional analytic rubrics,
Subjects:
Science, Basic Principles, General Science
Grades:
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th
Types:
Assessment, Rubrics
$16.75
$13.40
5
Bundle
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have 20 years of teaching experience at the middle and high school level. I have taught a wide range of sciences, including high school biology and chemistry, middle school general science and computer science, and currently, 8th grade physical science.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I am fan of highly-structured notes and worksheets that make it easy for students to understand content and stay organized, but I primarily use these for intros and independent review assignments. I spend most of my time in class doing lots of fun activities to keep students engaged while practicing new science skills or synthesizing new knowledge. I am always trying to incorporate student-directed collaborative learning in my classroom, but it's not always easy or efficient in middle school. So instead of big student-directed projects, I try to do it in small bites. For example, I often present “real life” problems or situations that students use their existing knowledge to try to figure out. For example, for a unit on heat transfer, I ask my students why their feet feel warmer stepping out of the shower on a bath mat rather than a tile floor? The challenge is that both the mat and the tile are at the same temperature!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I acted as a science consultant for Gale Publishing and helped produce a science book/eBook entitled Ignition Science: Collaborative Projects that Inspire Learning. This 500-page, 2-volume publication features over 70 collaborative science projects for middle/early high school students. My own activities provided the basis for over 85% of the published activities, and I was able to write the 3000-word instruction guide, which focused on collaborative project learning in the science classroom.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have been inspired by a number of other teachers in my life. I'd especially like to mention the professors whom I worked with as a student in the Biology and Pharmacology Program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. This innovative program was built around the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) model. Each PBL class was made up of six students and one professor and typically lasted three hours. Unlike most university classes where the professor gives a lecture to a mostly passive audience, each of our classes was planned, taught and evaluated by the students themselves. In many ways, each lesson followed a script like the hit TV show “House”. The professor would present us with an index card that outlined a patient’s symptoms and a modicum of background information. It was up to the students to choose the best course of action to solve the problem. We we would typically start by collectively determining what we knew and what we didn’t know. From there, we would divide ourselves into teams of two and head down to the medical library to research our chosen aspect of the problem. The team would reconvene after an hour and we would teach each other what we had found out. Once all of the new information was presented, the team would then determine if our findings allowed us to come to a conclusion. If we were unable to do so, the team would repeat the process until we were fully satisfied. One of the most interesting thing about those classes was that the professor never told us if we had correctly solved the problem. I distinctly remember the first time we asked our professor if we were right. He slowly took off his glasses, smirked and said, “Who am I to tell you that? I am only your teacher.” Surprisingly, it was my positive experience in the Biology and Pharmacology program that stopped me from becoming an actual pharmacologist. With each passing course, I came to the realization that I was becoming far more interested in the WAY the content was being taught rather than the content itself. In my final semester, I dropped out of the program so that I could pursue a career in education. As a teacher of middle school students, I realize that I won’t ever be able to duplicate those Biology and Pharmacology lessons. There are practical limitations of class size, resources and time. There are also pedagogical limitations due to the fact that middle school students are young adolescents and not university students. However, I believe that children of all ages are fully capable of the type of flexible, creative and collaborative thinking that my pharmacology professors tried to instill in us. Science is less a subject than a way of thinking. One doesn't LEARN/TEACH science as much as they DO science. In my view, one of the best things about science is that it can be messy, complicated, strange, challenging, fun, and exciting. What I see in elementary school science lesson is very young students approaching each topic with an incredible sense of wonder; every lesson offers something brand new for them to discover. The key to preserving that sense of wonder in older students is by presenting science as only one way of exploring the mysteries of life; mysteries where the teacher does not always have the answer.

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Comments? Questions? Requests? Feel free to contact me at sciencewithmrenns@gmail.com.

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