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I am a high school special education Biology and Environmental Science teacher who teaches all grade levels!
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Preview of Feel the Burn (Cellular Respiration - Anaerobic Respiration) Lab

Feel the Burn (Cellular Respiration - Anaerobic Respiration) Lab

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Looking for a way to review anaerobic respiration in an interactive way with your students? Look no further and prepare your students for some fun and seeing who can squeeze the clothespin more! Review the introduction and methods with your students ensuring they understand the concept of aerobic vs. anaerobic respiration, and what lactic acid is. Cover the methods with the students and either work as a whole class, or have students complete the assignment in pairs. All you need is clothespins
Preview of Plant & Animal Cell Compare, Contrast and Categorize Review Sheet

Plant & Animal Cell Compare, Contrast and Categorize Review Sheet

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Need a resource that has a comprehensive picture of the plant and animal cells with a chart comparing their organelles, question clarifying which are located in which cells and chart including their funcitons in one handy dandy back to front sheet? Look no further! Use this resource either as a classwork, homework or check-in with students about their understanding of their eukaryotic organelles. For struggling learners allow them to utilize their previous notes to complete the sheet, for those
Preview of Elodea canadensis Microscope Lab

Elodea canadensis Microscope Lab

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Students love using microscopes? Have them find the chloroplast inside a sample of Elodea canadensis that you can get from your local pet store and leave in your school's fish tank to grow! Students will begin by learning about Elodea canadensis and its benefits in a lake ecosystem. Students will review their understanding of the Introuction and photosynthesis. Students will use their microscope skills to locate and identify chloroplasts at 10x and 40x, calculate the total magnification and
Preview of Effects of Exercise (Cellular Respiration) Lab

Effects of Exercise (Cellular Respiration) Lab

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Want a lab for cellular respiration without the worry of using bromothymol blue with your group? Look no further! This lab has students measuring their heart and breathing rate (great skills I learned as an EMT!) at rest in comparison to after a minute of vigorous exercise! This resource will have your students working in groups or alone if you have a smaller group. Before beginning the lab students will read the Introduction, Methods and Materials and review questions to ensure students are us
Preview of Mutations Station Rotation

Mutations Station Rotation

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Review Frameshift and Point Mutations with your students in this interactive introductory lesson! Let students transcribe and translate the DNA into amino acids and figure out where the changes are! Review the definitions after and have the students return to define which example is which! There is one example for insertion, deletion, silent, missense and nonsense!
Preview of The Cell Cycle Diagram

The Cell Cycle Diagram

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Need a resource that contains the whole Cell Cycle in one place? Use this material for anything you need! An entrance or exit ticket, homework, review, notes or quick quiz! This material features a Cell Cycle Diagram students can write all over and annotate to their hearts content. At the bottom is a table to neatly organize their understanding of the stages of the Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Interphase!
Preview of Bubble Membrane Lab

Bubble Membrane Lab

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Engage your students in this interactive lab/activity in class! Teach before or after the cell membrane to drive home the idea of the cell membrane as the gate-keeper of the cell. Materials you will need: 2 straws per "membrane" a dish soap water paperclip rubberband pencil other diversion pieces such as a gummy bear, tissue, paper, etc! Go through pre-lab and methods questions with students to ensure their understanding of the organelle and what is expected during the class period. Then let s
Preview of Photosynthetic Products Lab! (A Photosynthesis Investigation!)

Photosynthetic Products Lab! (A Photosynthesis Investigation!)

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Would you like to physically show your students the process of photosynthesis in the classroom while using Elodea canadensis and very simple lab tools? Look no further! By using a solution of sodium bicarbonate with Elodea canadensis, a beaker, test tube and a window you can do just this! Have students read through the abstract, introduction and procedure on their own to familiarize themselves with the investigation and answer the accompanying pre-lab questions for self-check! Students can wor
Preview of Cell Size Review

Cell Size Review

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Need a quick resource to review cell size with your class? Use this material for an exit ticket, homework, review, checkpoint or quick quiz! Review some important concepts to why the cell is small, what surface area and volume are and application of the SA/V ratio for a 1cm, 2cm and 3cm cube. Animal Cell artwork purchased from Christine O'Brien Creative (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Christine-Obrien-Creative).
Preview of Microscope Mystery Lab

Microscope Mystery Lab

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What happens when Brandon's phone goes suddenly missing from his lunch table? Find out in this fun microscope mystery lab reinforcing your students skills! Students will look at sugar, salt, harissa, turmeric and pepper under the microscope to figure out which person took the cell phone based on the "evidence" slide! Students will have to make descriptions and drawings at 10x or whatever your preference is! I also have instructions for making paper slides to prevent possible microscope crackin
Preview of DNA to mRNA (Protein Synthesis - Transcription) Gallery Walk

DNA to mRNA (Protein Synthesis - Transcription) Gallery Walk

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Just introduced Transcription to your class and need a resource that reviews and has them practicing transcribing mRNA and thinking critically about what the DNA would be if given the mRNA strand? This resource has what you are looking for! Students will pariticpate in a gallery walk around the room practicing their transcription skills! Students will practice transcribing 5 strands of DNA into mRNA, and then working backwards to figure out what the 5 DNA strands were from the given mRNA strand
Preview of LevelsofOrganization, AbioticBiotic, Symbiosis & Feeding Relationships Homework

LevelsofOrganization, AbioticBiotic, Symbiosis & Feeding Relationships Homework

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Looking for way to review levels of organization, abiotic/biotic factors, symbiosis and feeding relationships in your Ecology unit? Look no further! This resource is meant to be versatile, it can be a homework, review, quiz, exit ticket, you name it, it's whatever you need! This worksheet starts with 5 multiple choice questions on levels of organization and symbiotic relationships. The back has a matching section for feeding relationship terms (producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore
Preview of Population Ecology Review Homework

Population Ecology Review Homework

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Want a quick Population Ecology homework for your students to complete following Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs? Look no further! This homework will take your students 10-30 minutes depending on their level of understanding, and act as a handy graphic organizer of their information for reference! Students will review the 3 types of distribution, logistic vs. exponential growth, the term carrying capacity and the difference between density dependent and density independent limiting factors! Please review
Preview of Ecology Feeding Relationships Card Sort (herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, etc.)

Ecology Feeding Relationships Card Sort (herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, etc.)

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Looking for a fun an gamefied way to practice your ecology feeding relationships with your students? Look no further! Practice your ecology terms (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, detritivores and decomposers) with your students through a fun card sort! This resource can be used as an entrance or exit ticket, quick review, part of a station rotation, a gallery walk, you name it! I like to challenge my students at the beginning of a unit with this card sort, and then return to it at the end to
Preview of Protein Synthesis Review: Transcription & Translation

Protein Synthesis Review: Transcription & Translation

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This resource can be used as a review, study tool, activity, longer homework or check-point with your students on protein synthesis! It covers transcription and translation in detail asking questions about the related organelles, proteins, processes and procedures to create mRNA, tRNA and the accompanying amino acids. There is a full key included!
Preview of Transcription Practice

Transcription Practice

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Need a short review to practice your students Transcription skills? Search no further! This practice sheet has four strands of DNA for your students to practice on and has a nifty little box for students to put their base pairing rules! Feel free to run through the first one as practice with the class and let students do the rest of the three individually, in a group or in pairs! Works great as a short homework also for review!
Preview of Cell Theory & Eukaryote vs. Prokaryote Review Homework

Cell Theory & Eukaryote vs. Prokaryote Review Homework

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Review the 3 parts of the cell theory, prokaryotes vs. eukaryotes and the five scientists contributions to the cell theory! Use as a classwork assignment, homework or assessment! Could also be used as a study guide! The possibilities are endless! Christine O'Brien Creative (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Christine-Obrien-Creative).
Preview of Population Ecology Vocabulary Review

Population Ecology Vocabulary Review

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Suddenly aware of how much vocabulary there is in Ecology? Eeep! Use this resource to review some of the important terms at the beginning, during or end of a unit! This matching worksheet reviews the terms: Parasitism, Emigration, Immigration, Exponential Growth, Population Density, Symbiosis, Limiting Factors, Mutualism, Commensalism, Abiotic Factor, Biotic Factor, Carrying Capacity, Predation and Logistsic Growth! A multifaceted resource that can be used as a homework, classwork, entrance or
Preview of Gummy Bear Osmosis Lab

Gummy Bear Osmosis Lab

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Interested in review osmosis with your students in a fun an interactive setting and reviewing the concept in mathematical detail? Look no further! This lab has students first predict, then observe and calculate and make conclusions. Materials: Gummy Bears (non-organic) Heavily salted water Scale Rulers Place the gummy bears overnight or longer for better results in 1 solution of salt water and 1 solution of regular water. Students will initially make hypotheses about what they think will happe
Preview of The Stages of Mitosis Cut & Paste and Review

The Stages of Mitosis Cut & Paste and Review

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Need a resource that is interactive and a form of review? Look no further! This resource is two pages and chock-full of differentiated ways to review the Cell Cycle & Mitosis information! Start out having your students color the images that were created by Tangstar Science, cut them out and put them in order on the front page (Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase & Cytokinesis) while including the most important information of those phases. Move on to the back where students
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About the store

Experience

I am a high school special education Biology and Environmental Science teacher who teaches all grade levels!

Teaching style

My teaching style incorporates puns, fun and differentiation as much as possible! A day my students is laughing is one that is successful! I enjoy creating station rotations, gallery walks, review sheets, interactives and other activities to reinforce the content and keep things moving and interesting in class!

My own education history

My bachelor's is in Biology with minors in psychology and healthcare ethics. I have my Ed.M. in Biological Life Science and Certificate in Special Education!