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.
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
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 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
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 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,
Use this 1 page worksheet to help your students review and learn the basics of the skeletal system. This is a fill-in-the-blank or "cloze" format. This can be considered an exercise in literacy as well as science. There is a teacher answer key provided.
bone, marrow, mineral, calcium, adult, child, fuse, movement, muscle, blood
This is a packet of notes that is all about heat transfer. The concepts of conduction, convection, and radiation are covered as well as the laws of conservation of energy and matter. There are questions for students to respond to in the margins, vocabulary to define, wrap up questions, and an enrichment section. This packet comes with a teacher answer key and it is appropriate for late middle school or early high school students.
radiation, convection, conduction, heat, energy, matter, conse
Use this 1 page worksheet to help students review and apply knowledge of the circulatory system. This is a fill in the blank worksheet where students choose the appropriate word for each blank in the paragraph. This activity reinforces literacy skills in science. There is a teacher answer key provided.
Heart, lungs, blood, arteries, veins, oxygen, carbon dioxide, transport, circulate, pump
Use this lab activity to reinforce concepts of predator-prey relationships in the science classroom that is learning about ecology. Students create data tables that are used to create a line graph. There are conclusion questions that require students to analyze the graph and reflect on limiting factors. There is a teacher answer key provided.
limiting factor predator prey line graph dependent variable independent variable data table population water food nutrients
Super Science
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 your intermediate level students be well versed in the images, diagrams, and vocabulary of the science of weather and climate. This is a major part of the elementary science curriculum. This is a worksheet that requires students to match terms from a word bank to images in a table. With teacher guidance students will fill in the table to create a resource to have as a reference guide. There is a teacher answer key provided.
weather, precipitation, water cycle, Sun
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 review sheet is based on NY state science standards and is aligned with national science standards. It covers the basic concepts of cell theory and the characteristics of life. This review sheet is ideal for middle to early high school life science/biology class. The sheet is interactive, full of images, and provides space to take notes and complete simple review tasks.
cells, organelles, organs, organ systems, tissues, unicellular, multicellular, cell division, cell transport, plants,
Use this 1 page fill-in-the-blank worksheet to help your students in science class understand the basics of the human respiratory system. This is both a literacy and science learning activity. There is a teacher answer key provided.
air, lungs, pharynx, sneeze, cough, hiccup, mouth, nose, bronchi, cellular respiration, oxygen, carbon dioxide, blood, alveoli
Use this simple, one page worksheet to guide your students through the usage of a dichotomous key as an activity related to classification in your middle school science classroom.
classification, dichotomous key
This is a ten question worksheet all about classification. There is an answer key provided and most questions have images and diagrams.
classification, cells, dichotomous key, kingdom, species, phylum, internal, external, structure, organism, producers, consumers, unicellular, multicellular
Use this image based document to help your students identify energy forms and energy transformations. Visualization is a great literacy strategy where students can be taught to associate words with pictures/images/diagrams. This knowledge and skill are important for students transitioning from late elementary to middle school. There is a teacher answer key provided.
heat, light, sound, nuclear, kinetic, potential, atomic, wind, solar, electric, thermal, gravitational
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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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