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I have had the privilege of teaching middle school science for my entire career, starting with 7th and 8th grade and now focusing entirely on 8th grade.

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Alien World - Creative Writing Prompts

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Get ready for some exciting in space! These are creative writing prompts that should help students write short stories. They can be used as class warm-ups, supplemental assignments, or enrichments. These assignments were designed for a 6th grade language arts intervention class. But they could work perfectly for an EL class.

4th - 12th

Creative Writing, English Language Arts

CCSS

CCRA.W.3

, CCRA.L.3

Lunar Holidays - Cultural Astronomy

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Many religious traditions across the world have used astronomical events to date their important festivals and holidays. This is a lab that combines scientific content with cultural awareness. Students will read about four major religious festivals, learning the what, why, and when of these events. Then they will answer a few questions about each. This assignment is great as an enrichment or short lab. It has been written at a fairly low grade level so that even struggling readers can gain the

5th - 10th

Astronomy, World History

CCSS, NGSS

RI.8.4

, MS-ESS1-1

Lunar Holidays - Cultural Astronomy

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In the past, time was kept by looking to the skies. As a result, many religious and cultural festivals base their yearly timing on different astronomical cycles. In this case, I chose festivals that use the moon, providing students with a beautiful combination of science and history. The activity works best as a stations activity where students move to each article, read it together, then answer questions. Activity can be supplemented by requesting students to include a festival that they celebr

5th - 8th

Science

CCSS, NGSS

RH.6-8.4

, RH.6-8.5

, MS-ESS1-1

My Traits and Me - Personal Genetics and Graph

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In many biology classes, teachers like to use simple dominant/recessive traits as a starting point for more complicated genetic traits. This simple worksheet provides the documents for a teacher to lead a class through a few of those simple traits and then compare visually with a graph. Helps to dispel the notion that dominant traits are more common. Works best with younger students, especially those with little experience graphing.

5th - 8th

Science

NGSS

MS-LS3-1

, MS-LS4-4

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I have had the privilege of teaching middle school science for my entire career, starting with 7th and 8th grade and now focusing entirely on 8th grade.

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Beginning my career with the old California State Standards, I initially taught knowledge-based curriculum. Then, working at an IB school and with the NGSS curriculum I began using a more project-based approach. Eventually I combined the two styles together, realizing that students cannot engage with depth-based, open-ended research projects without core knowledge. My assignments involve interdisciplinary themes, combining my personal love of reading and writing with science curriculum. Since my background (and degree) are in history, I try to involve as much cultural information in my science assignments. This helps provide a different perspective while also activating students' prior knowledge.