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.
This product is a hands-on lab activity where students will build and test a balloon rocket to learn about speed, acceleration, momentum, friction, gravity, and air pressure. There are pre-lab and conclusion questions complete with an answer key for teachers. Students are required to use data tables, make predictions, make calculations, and create line graphs.
force, motion, Newton's 3 laws of motion, air pressure, gravity, friction, momentum, rocket, balloon, line graph, prediction, Isaac N
6th - 9th
Basic Principles, General Science, Physical Science
This lab guides students through 3 simple activities for a science class. Homeostasis or dynamic equilibrium as it is sometimes called is the major theme of this lab activity. There is a teacher answer key provided for the pre-lab questions and conclusion questions for the lab. The lab includes data tables and requires students to learn the basic skills of measuring their pulse and breathing rate.
homeostasis, regulation, feedback, hormone, body system, circulatory system, respiratory syst
Use this lab to enhance and support your unit of study on nutrition and digestion in your middle or high school science class. Students are introduced to key terms and a general overview of how to read and interpret a nutrition label. There are pre-lab questions, lab exercises, and a teacher answer key.
carbohydrate, protein, fat, fiber, mineral, vitamin, calorie, nutrition, healthy, well-balanced diet
Use this 17 item crossword puzzle to reinforce vocabulary in an intermediate level science classroom for an introductory unit on science. There is a student word bank and teacher answer key provided.
Hypothesis, Matter, Area, Measurement, Mass, Science, Gram, Variable, Unit, Meter, Research, Volume, Energy, Observation, Liter
Experiment, Technology, Microscope
This is a printable packet of notes about solutions and mixtures. Solubility is discussed from a standpoint of heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures. Methods of mixture separation are also covered. Saturation point and solubility curves are included for student use. There are vocabulary words for students to define, wrap-up questions for student understanding, and an enrichment section. A teacher answer key is provided for the wrap up questions.
chemistry, mixture, solution, separate, so
Using the triple beam balance is a necessary science skill. Despite multiple exposures and practice to this piece of equipment, many students will still struggle to read the balance, calibrate the balance, and accurately use the balance to measure the mass of items. There are photographs of the balance to post on a SmartBoard or print for students to assess their ability to read this. A teacher key is included and a section for practice afterwards with real items and the real balance.
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Use this worksheet in your science or math class to help students use and practice the skills of graph reading. The questions that are associated with the graph require students to interpolate and extrapolate as well as identify both independent and dependent variables. Teacher answer key is included.
interpolate, extrapolate, interpret, independent variable, dependent variable
Use this 1 page fill-in-the-blank or "cloze" worksheet to help students review and reinforce their knowledge of the nervous system. This is both a literacy and science learning activity that is appropriate for middle school students and lower level high school. There is a teacher answer key provided.
nerves, neuron, reflex, response, stimulus, sensory organ, brain, spinal cord, neurotransmitter
Use this 1.5 page CLOZE worksheet as part of a unit of study on DNA and heredity. The basics of DNA base-pair bonding are discussed along with a brief history of the discovery of DNA. This assignment combines literacy with science content.
DNA, replication, adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine, base pairing, nucleotide, mitosis, cell division, protein
Use this worksheet to help your science students to reinforce and review their knowledge about the human reproductive system. This is a fill-in-the-blank worksheet that is also a literacy activity. There is a teacher answer key provided.
Asexual, sexual, reproduction, sperm, egg, sex cell, 23 chromosomes, uterus, testes, ovaries, external, internal, fertilization, differentiation, growth
Use this one page worksheet that is cloze (fill in the blank) dealing with basic science properties, equipment, and measurement. A teacher answer key is provided and there are word banks provided after each paragraph for students to choose from.
measurement, equipment, triple beam balance, volume, mass, density, graduated cylinder, regular shaped solid, irregularly shaped solid, metric ruler, physical property, chemical property
Measuring is an important skill in science class. One commonplace measurement activity is measuring a specimen using a grid slide on a microscope. To enhance, review, and reinforce the actual use of microscopes and grid slides, this worksheet displays specimens on grids and requires students to make a measurement to the nearest 0.1 mm. There is a teacher key provided and more than ten specimens to measure. microscope, measurement, mm, 0.1 mm, field of view, specimen, insect
Use this worksheet to help students review their knowledge of the human digestive system. There is a word bank provided, where students will fill-in-the-blank. There is a teacher key provided.
digestion, absorption, nutrients, mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, anus, enzyme, pancreas, gallbladder, chemical/physical digestion
Use this 15 page packet of notes, questions, and definitions to help your high school biology students study and learn about cellular transport processes. There are definitions provided, workspaces in the margin with essential focus questions, and conclusion questions that measure student understanding. There is an answer key provided for teachers. Passive transport, Active transport, ATP, Equilibrium, Nutrient, Diffusion, Facilitated diffusion, Gradient, Endocytosis, Exocytosis, Vesicle
Students will engage in some detective work in this lab, requiring them to identify the material of ten different cubes. The density is provided for each of the ten cubes on the lab worksheet and students are provided with the cubes. Their job is to measure the mass and volume of each cube and calculate the density. Next, they correctly place them in the box that matches the density that they calculated. NOTE - this lab requires a density cube set, which is a very useful set of materials in a
5th - 12th
Basic Principles, General Science, Physical Science
Use this 19 question test to see if your students can read and interpret graphs. Interpolation and extrapolation are skills that are necessary for student sucess in middle school and beyond. There is a student answer sheet and teacher answer key provided.
interpolation, extrapolation, graph, interpret, solubility curve
Use this notes packet as a resource guide for your middle school science students to teach them about weather and climate. There is text, definitions, pictures, and questions along the side of the reading to examine and think about the concepts. There are multiple choice and extended response questions at the end as well as an enrichment section.
weather, climate, Sun, hydrosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere, water cycle, climate, climate change, pollution, global warming, hurricane, blizzard,
Students that are being introduced to the scientific method often struggle to learn how to both identify and measure variables in experiments. Use this worksheet with your introduction to the scientific method to assist students in identifying both variables in a science investigation. A teacher answer key is provided.
independent variable, dependent variable, relationship
This is a comprehensive notes packet that covers the scientific method as well as some aspects of measurement and graphing. It contains questions in the margins for students to respond to, vocabulary to define, conclusion questions for understanding, and an enrichment section to challenge your students.
hypothesis, question, procedure, experiment, variable, test, conclusion, data, research, process, scientific method, measure, record, observation, inference
5th - 8th
Basic Principles, General Science, Physical Science
Use this comprehensive packet to help your late elementary to intermediate level students learn about the phases of the Moon and some other basic, related concepts of Earth Science. There is a reading, diagrams, vocabulary, multiple-choice, and extended response questions to guage understanding. There is a teacher key provided for all exercises.
Moon, phase of Moon, Moon cycle, gibbous, crescent, waxing, waning, first quarter, third quarter, new Moon, full Moon, Sun, reflect, orbit, gravity,
4th - 6th
Basic Principles, Earth Sciences, General Science
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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)
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Member Orange County Chapter of NY State Archaeologial Association
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