I have 12+ years experience teaching both middle and high school students in New York State. I have also done enrichment programs with elementary school students. I am certified in science and special education grades 5-12. I am also working on my administrator certification as I have recently graduated with my Master's in School Building Leadership from Mercy College.
Use this fun PowerPoint Jeopardy Game to review the important concepts of the forms of energy and energy transformations. This game is appropriate for intermediate level science students in grades 5 - 8. The answers are included in the PowerPoint presentation. This can be a great and fun review or assessment activity.
energy, transformation, light, heat, renewable, non-renewable, nuclear, geothermal, wind, solar, mechanical, kinetic, potential, stored, motion, fossil fuel, coal, oil, gas,
Start the year off right by instructing and assessing your students' knowledge of the difference between independent and dependent variables. This worksheet will help you accomplish that goal in your middle or high school science class. There is a teacher answer key included.
dependent variable, independent variable, relationship, change, amount, experiment, investigate, determine, respond, manipulate
Use this resource to help your middle school math and science students learn and practice how to make line graphs as well as identify the independent and dependent variables. Move beyond bar graphs! There is a teacher key provided and eight graphs for practice.
line graph, plot points, x-axis, y-axis, independent variable, dependent variable
Looking for a resource to help your elementary students learn how to make and interpret graphs? This is a selection of science based questions that require students to create and interpret bar graphs, line graphs, and tables to practice these necessary skills. Use this question bank to make worksheets, quizzes, or assess a particular lesson or group of lessons during a K - 6 unit on graphing.
graph, line graph, bar graph, data, table, chart, information, interpret, read
This worksheet is a fill in the blank Cloze activity that introduces and assesses your middle to high school students on the basics of the scientific method and measurement. There is a teacher answer key provided.
hypothesis, problem, question, variable, control, data, procedure, research, experiment, investigation, conclusion, constant, independent variable, dependent variable
Use this worksheet to reinforce student understanding of the scientific method and all of the steps involved in it. There are 6 experiments listed but the steps of the experiment are out of order. Students must use a key to put the steps in the correct order and then they are challenged to design their own simple experiment. Teacher answer key is included.
question, hypothesis, prediction, procedure, experiment, data, research, conclusion
Use this worksheet to help struggling students or any student to reinforce the use of pictures/diagrams in science as they are related to vocabulary words for a unit on plants. A teacher answer key with definitions has been provided.
Paper chromatography, Seed, Plant rooting, Autotrophic organisms, Ecological succession, Photosynthetic activity setup, Mitosis, Plant cells, Photosynthesis, Cotyledon, Roots,
Fertilization, Life cycle of a plant, Flower
This is aollection of multiple choice and extended response questions all about force and motion. It is appropriate for a K - 6 science classroom. Answer key is included. Use this document to build your own tests, quizzes, and do-nows for student assessment during a unit on force and motion.
force, motion, friction, gravity, simple machines, levers, inclined plane, pulley, increase/decrease, balance, distance
Super Science
4th - 7th
Basic Principles, General Science, Physical Science
This is a 25 page document with multiple choice questions and extended response. The topics covered are scientific method, measurement, and graphing questions. There are both elementary level questions and middle school questions. The answers are provided to all questions in the packet.
Use this question bank to build assessments for your K - 6 science classroom. There are multiple choice and extended response questions. Answer key is included.
electrical energy, heat energy, mechanical energy, sound energy, light energy, friction, gravitational potential energy, chemical energy, the Sun as a source of all energy, temperature, thermometer
K - 8th
Basic Principles, General Science, Physical Science
This document contains over 30 pages of multiple choice and extended response questions all about the basic properties of matter. This is designed for use in a K - 6 classroom learning about science. Simple properties and processes such as color, shape, odor, texture, mass, volume AND the tools we use to measure and observe are all assessed in this bank of questions. The answers to all questions are provided. Build your own quizzes, tests, and do nows with this.
shape, color, texture, odo
Use this question bank to assess your K - 6 elementary students during your units of study about science. This packet contains multiple choice and extended response/graphing questions that deal with weather.
weather, precipitation, freeze, melt, snow, rain, sleet, hail, water cycle, runoff, evaporation, clouds, temperature, condensation, groundwater
Use this 37 question worksheet as a warm-up or practice setting for an upcoming test/quiz for the scientific method. There is a teacher answer key provided and a student answer sheet. All multiple-choice, extended response, and graphing questions are appropriate for the middle school level.
control, variable, dependent variable, independent variable, hypothesis, graph, table, chart, diagram, measurement, volume, mass, graduated cylinder, conclusion, triple beam balance, hand lens, ruler, gr
Use this fun and engaging activity to help introduce the skills of observation in science. This webquest requires you and your students to visit a webpage and pretend that you are crime scene investigators. You will observe a crime scene for a brief period and then have your students respond to questions that assess their visual recall skills. There are pre-activity questions and post-activity analysis/discussion questions. There is a teacher key for all questions.
observation, observe, inv
This is a 14 slide powerpoint to introduce students to science class. The presentation covers the following topics - science, measurement, observation, inference, experimenting, qualitative, and quantitative. This a general introduction to science and does not explore these topics in depth; this is only an introduction that is appropriate for middle and high school students.
Super Science
This is a review sheet designed with NY state science standards, which would likely work for many other states science curricula. The standards, performance indicators, and major understandings are provided and detailed with images/concept descriptions. This sheet is ideal for a student preparing for a test or quiz or a teacher preparing a unit of study in science.
punnett square, heredity, genetics, allele, DNA, gene, double helix, asexual, sexual, trait, dominance, recessive, pedigree ch
Students learn better when they connect vocabulary words with pictures/diagrams. Use this worksheet to have students not only define the vocab words for the human body but to also connect the words to the correct. There is a teacher answer key provided.
Gas exchange in alveoli, Digestive system, Respiratory system, Circulatory system, Kidney, Phagocytosis, Muscle tissue, Endocrine system, Skeletal system, Female reproductive system, Egg, Synapse, Feedback loop, Hinge joint, Sperm, Male repr
Use this fun webquest activity to help develop pattern recognition skills in your elementary science students. This activity requires a journey to a website for some interactive demonstrations that will assess student skills in pattern recogntion through a virtual crime scene analysis. There are pre and post activity questions. There is a teacher key provided.
pattern, recognize, identify, notice, observe, memory, similar, different
Use this free and fun webquest to teach your elementary science students about the importance of paying attention. This activity uses the famous selective attention experiment of the "invisible gorilla." You will watch a brief video with your students and respond to some questions. There are pre and post activity questions and a teacher key for all questions.
notice, observe, memory, attention, forget
3rd - 5th
Basic Principles
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Experience
I have 12+ years experience teaching both middle and high school students in New York State. I have also done enrichment programs with elementary school students. I am certified in science and special education grades 5-12. I am also working on my administrator certification as I have recently graduated with my Master's in School Building Leadership from Mercy College.
Teaching style
I like to combine the sentiments of Gardner's multiple intelligence theory with the constructivist theory of Twomey.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Member Golden Key National Honor Society
Graduated top 10% of high school class
Graduated top 10% of PSU
My own education history
Pennsylvania State University - 2001 B.S. in Psychology with Biological Sciences Option.
Manhattanville College - 2005 - M.A.T. for Science (5 - 9) and (7 - 12).
Certified Biology grades (5 - 12), Students with Disabilities (7 - 12)
Additional biographical information
Member Orange County Chapter of NY State Archaeologial Association
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