Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop
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State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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I have been teaching in a homeschool co-op for about 25 years. I've developed lots of curricula for chemistry, biology, earth sciences, anatomy, geography, and art. I have a BFA in fine art, which shapes everything I do: line drawings and cartoons illustrate my books, and there are many art projects included in the learning activities. Additionally, at my own website www.ellenjmchenry.com I offer video courses that use drawing to study world geography and anatomy. I invent a lot of games and puzzles which I hope to share with the TPT community.
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Paper models bundle: ear, eye, skin
You can get all three of our paper model kits in this bundle. Have students assemble paper models of eyes, ears, and skin, or make models to have in your classroom during units on the human body. Please remember to rate our product! It helps other teachers find it!
6th - 12th
Anatomy, Biology, Science
DNA PAPER MODEL to cut and assemble
This model of DNA is more detailed than most paper models designed for students. Here you can see every atom! You can see how and why the bases connect, and you can see the difference between ribose and deoxyribose. Explaining the 5′ and 3′ directions is easy because the carbons are numbered. The downside of this model is that it is flat, not a 3D helix shape, but I have yet to find a 3D model that can also show all the atoms, so I took the downside here in favor of making the chemistry visi
11th - 12th, Higher Education
Anatomy, Biology, Science
AP Biology: Cellular Respiration Board Game
This game is the most complex, yet most understandable, game about cellular respiration you’ll ever find. It includes glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain. Each of these three parts is on a separate paper, but all three papers connect to form the entire process. The Krebs cycle is a carousel-type thing where your token sits on the circle and moves around. In some parts of the game you answer questions to earn hops along the board. The last section features a flat mo
12th, Higher Education
Anatomy, Biology
NGSS
HS-LS1-7
Also included in: 3 AP Biology board games
The Original Brain Hat
Make a paper hat that shows the major lobes of the cerebrum and what they do. It's the hat that's been used in schools, universities and museums around the world! You can find unauthorized copies all over the internet, but this is the original creator. The download gives you a colored copy AND a black and white one that your students can color themselves. Please remember to rate our product! It helps other teachers find it!
Not Specific
Anatomy, Biology, Science
The Rumination Game
Perfect for 4-H or biology class: this game demonstrates (unforgettably!) how the ruminating stomach system works. Players or teams move tokens through the digestive system, following the numbers that outline the route. At each point, they move forward by correctly answering a question or acting out a silly cow stunt. Dairy questions ask about milk products, while laboratory questions ask things like "Which of these is not found in the rumen?" or "How much milk can a cow make in a day?" Bovine
2nd - 6th
Biology, Science
VA SOL
2.5.a
Paper Model of Ear
This is a kit for cutting, folding, and taping paper to make a model of the human ear. It's a great activity for reviewing a unit on hearing or the human body, or make a model to have in your classroom. You will need the pattern pages printed out on card stock or vellum, scissors or an x-acto knife, and a glue stick. Please remember to rate our product! It helps other teachers find it!
6th - 12th
Anatomy, Biology, Science
Also included in: Paper models bundle: ear, eye, skin
Diatom crafts: box or ornaments
Oceanography for Christmas? Decorate your holiday tree with diatoms! Diatoms are algae that make their own glass shells from silicon they take from the water. They build shells in snowflake-like geometric designs, fitting a top valve onto a bottom valve, like tiny clams. This download includes a diatom identification page (with 17 types of diatoms) and patterns to make two different crafts. One is a triangle-shaped box that students can color, cut and tape. The other is a set of colored diatom
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Biology, Environment
NGSS
4-LS1-1
, 5-LS2-1
, 2-LS4-1
+1
3 AP Biology board games
This bundle includes three AP level games for biology and biochemistry. You will get: Translation Taxi: mRNA Game The C3 Photosynthesis Game The Cellular Respiration Game Your students will have much better recall of basic cellular processes after seeing them made visible in a board game. The games require some assembly: printing on card stock, cutting, some taping and gluing. AP Biology games at this level usually just aren't available! Please remember to rate our product! It helps other teache
12th, Higher Education
Biology, Chemistry
NGSS
HS-LS1-5
, HS-LS1-7
, HS-LS1-6
Paper Model of Eye
This is a complete kit for making a model of the human eye. The pdf includes the patterns to cut and directions for assembling. You will need: copies of the pattern pages printed onto lightweight card stock scissors white glue or good quality glue stick clear tape a piece of thin, clear plastic colored pencils thin permanent marker for a number labels on plastic parts Please remember to rate our product! It helps other teachers find it!
6th - 12th
Anatomy, Biology, Science
Also included in: Paper models bundle: ear, eye, skin
ATP SYNTHASE PAPER MODEL to cut and assemble
Cut and assemble your own “working” model of ATP synthase, the last mechanism in the Electron Transport Chain (inside the mitochondria). ATP synthase puts the third phosphate (P) back onto ADP to turn it back into ATP, the energy molecule used by most cellular processes. This is a “working model” because you can turn the rotor and circulate the ADP and ATP strips Into and out of the F1 spherical subunit. Time needed to assemble: about an hour You will need: • copies of the pattern pages printed
11th - 12th, Higher Education
Anatomy, Biology
Paper Model of Human Skin
This is a kit for making a cut-away model of human skin. It has been slightly simplified, for example it shows only melanocytes, not all cells. Let students assemble it as a review exercise, or make a model for your classroom. You will need: printed pattern pages on card stock or vellum scissors glue stick colored pencils Please remember to rate our product! It helps other teachers find it!
6th - 12th
Anatomy, Biology, Science
Also included in: Paper models bundle: ear, eye, skin
Pop-up Japanese Bunraku Theater
The project creates a pop-up paper model of a Bunraku theater, with puppets in the front and black-dressed puppeteers behind them. Materials: pdf templates printed on heavy paper or card stock colored pencils scissors white glue X-acto knife or razor blade Please rate our product so that the search engine can easily find and show it to other teachers!
5th - 8th
Asian Studies, Drama
Also included in: Japan map, cat coin bank, theater model, and woodcuts
Nuclear War card game
This game is about radioactive decay, not military war with nuclear weapons! The most peace-loving people among us still need to know how alpha, beta and gamma particles behave and what "decay" actually means. This team card/board game steps students through the process so they'll remember it. It's a team game with a moderator directing when the first team should stop trading or moving cards, and the second team should begin. You can play it with team members using only cards they've drawn, or y
7th - 12th
Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Physics
The Carbon Cycle Board Game
Let's say you're a Carbon atom, and you're ready for adventure. Jump on this board and see how fast you can race through a cycle of transformations: join a sugar during photosynthesis and wait to be exhaled by an animal...and then do it again. Or get packed into coal or oil by an ancient plant, and then turn into fuel. But can you ever get OUT? Put four cycles together and you've got a game board. Move your token through the cycles, and see if you can get an exact number to EXIT the cycles. If n
5th - 11th
Biology, Chemistry, Environment
Two Paper Virus Models
Viruses are very weird beings, perched right on the line between alive and non-living, and shaped more like mechanical gizmos than like animals. Your students can cut, fold, tape and glue to make their own paper models of two common viruses. The adenovirus, which shows up in eye-ear-nose-throat infections, has 20 sides like the dice kids use in role-playing games. Even weirder, the T-2, a virus that eats bacteria, is shaped like some kind of moon lander. For this activity, you will need: copies
8th - 12th
Biology, Science
Egg Development Wheel activity
Students can make a demonstration of how a chicken's egg develops over 21 days by cutting and assembling this wheel. It's perfect for 4-H or a classroom. Print the patterns on card stock. Students cut and color the parts, then assemble the wheel with a paper fastener. With each turn of the wheel, you see a numbered day and the way a developing chick typically looks on that day. Please remember to leave a rating for our product so that the search engine can find and show it to other teachers!
3rd - 6th
Biology, Science
Chemistry: The Functional Group Board Game
A functional group is the portion of a molecule that gives it its properties and makes it recognizable as part of some group: alkenes, benzenes, aldehydes, and so on. This board game makes tiresome review into an easy exercise because when you have to use something as a tool, it's stored in a different part of the memory. This game board has nine squares---printed by you, on card stock---marked for nine functional groups. You'll also print, on 4 different colors of card stock, 30 different molec
10th - 12th, Higher Education
Chemistry
NGSS
HS-PS1-1
, HS-PS1-2
Chinese Dragon Lantern Craft
Make a better-than-average Chinese lantern with this template and directions. We had our classes make these as decorations for our Chinese New Year party and wow did they look nice! Students will color the dragon and assemble the lantern with adult help as needed for cutting slits in paper. Takes about an hour, maybe a bit less for older kids. Materials: Copies of the dragon pattern pdf colored paper (red, yellow or black is best) colored pencils or crayons white glue glue stick scissors clear
Not Specific
Asian Studies
Also included in: Chinese map and crafts
Ectomy: a brain parts board game
Nine major brain regions, one set of forceps: how long will it take your students to put their brain together and win? Each student gets a blank brain map, but all of its parts are in a pool in the middle. Draw a card and answer the question correctly to win that brain part. What if you win two of the same lobes? Trade with other players to get a complete set as fast as you can! Watch out for the hazard cards, mixed into the pile, that force you to "-ectomy" a part and win it all over again. Sam
6th - 9th
Anatomy, Biology, Science
Also included in: Body Systems Bundle
Agate Craft Project
When nature fills bubbles in lava with silicon, the result is the agate, the interior of a geode. It's the most beautiful banded gemstone, infinitely varied in shape and colors. Your students can make their own agate with this template. At the simplest, the template can be used as a coloring page. But for best results, photocopy it onto clear plastic sheets and let the students paint the rings with acrylic colors. Paint a band of glue around the outside and sprinkle sand. When it dries, you'll h
Not Specific
Earth Sciences, Science, Visual Arts
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About the store
Experience
I have been teaching in a homeschool co-op for about 25 years. I've developed lots of curricula for chemistry, biology, earth sciences, anatomy, geography, and art. I have a BFA in fine art, which shapes everything I do: line drawings and cartoons illustrate my books, and there are many art projects included in the learning activities. Additionally, at my own website www.ellenjmchenry.com I offer video courses that use drawing to study world geography and anatomy. I invent a lot of games and puzzles which I hope to share with the TPT community.
Teaching style
Activity-based classroom, learning through art
I often present material to middle school (and even younger) students that would be considered high school or even university level topics. With good explanations and interactive games and projects, students can learn far more than we think. They enjoy it more when they learn it at younger ages, too.
My own education history
BFA in Fine Art, Penn State, 1985
Additional biographical information
Come to www.ellenjmchenry.com to see my full-scale books and video courses. Here at Teachers Pay Teachers, my sister Ruth Johnston is acting as marketing assistant.
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