Charlotte's Collaborative Projects

This set of foldables will help your students learn about sound waves, their properties and how musical instruments work. It will help your students master the NGSS Standard MS-PS4-2A: A sound wave needs a medium through which it is transmitted. Each foldable is specific to a different topic regarding sound, including how sound waves work, the factors affecting the speed of sound, the properties of sound, decibel time exposure guidelines, and different instruments and how they make sound. Wit

This is a great activity for teaching the middle school NGSS Standard MS-LS-3A: Inheritance of Traits. Students will have the opportunity to draw “genes” out of a bag and create unique chromosomes. Each student’s chromosome pair will be completely different from the student sitting next to them. Beyond that, students will be using vocabulary terms such as “homozygous” and “heterozygous” to identify the genes in their chromosome pairs, helping the vocabulary stick with them better. My 7th gra

This genetic puzzle is for low to average students studying heredity at the middle school level. It meets the Next Generation Science Standard MS-LS3 Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits. Students use a short description on a puzzle piece to design a Punnett Square with the given traits. They will have nine different puzzle pieces used to create a unique person. Students then use the specified square within the Punnett Squares to determine which traits their person will inherit. I

This activity is a great way to either teach or review the different tools available for scientists to use in order to calculate mass, volume, time, length or look at objects closer. Students will cut out and glue together 6 envelopes to keep their task cards in. They will then label them (Mass, Temperature, Length, Volume, Time and Optical) and glue the unit of measurement on the correct envelope. From there, students will have task cards with a description and a picture of each tool that th

This product is a great way for students to learn about mechanical waves. NGSS standard MS-PS4-1 (A simple wave has a repeating pattern with a specific wavelength, frequency, and amplitude.) is covered by this collection of foldables, and it also will help lead right into MS-PS4-2 (A sound wave needs a medium through which it is transmitted). Taking information from a textbook or PowerPoint becomes much more streamlined for students and these foldables make sure they have all the important inf

This product is a great way for students to learn about magnetism and electromagnets. NGSS standard MS-PS2-3 (Electric and magnetic (electromagnetic) forces can be attractive or repulsive, and their sizes depend on the magnitudes of the charges, currents, or magnetic strengths involved and on the distances between the interacting objects) and MS-PS2-5 (Forces that act at a distance (electric, magnetic, and gravitational) can be explained by fields that extend through space and can be mapped by

This lab aligns with Next Generation Science Standards for Middle School Physical Science: PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter. Students will be pouring multiple liquids into a graduated cylinder to observe how density plays a key role in their final position. I was amazed at how many of my students had misconstrued notions about density and how “heavy” liquids were. This lab allowed them to make predictions and see immediately if they were right or not, and they were excited to keep ad

This genetic puzzle is for average to high students studying heredity at the middle school level. It meets the Next Generation Science Standard MS-LS3 Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits. Students use a short description on a puzzle piece to design a Punnett Square with the given traits. They will have nine different puzzle pieces used to create a unique person. Students then use the specified square within the Punnett Squares to determine which traits their person will inherit. I

These interactive notebook glue-ins are helpful for teaching about codominance and incomplete dominance. They help teach NGSS Standard MS-LS-3A: Inheritance of Traits. The first glue-in matches vocabulary terms with their definitions. I use this as a way to identify terms as we read. The second glue-in compares dominance, recessive, incomplete dominance and codominance. The final glue-in gives examples of codominance, incomplete dominance, polygenic inheritance, environmental factors, acqui