Hal Raymond

Dissecting starfish or other echinoderms?  Expensive!!!  There is very little cost with this all virtual anatomy/dissection activity!   Studying basic anatomy of organs can be as much fun online as it is doing the real dissections.  Some teachers and parents try to have students dissect fetal pigs.  Some find that frogs are a good alternative.  This is a great stand alone all digital starfish anatomy drag & drop activity for the entire class.  It’s also great to be able to provide something fo

A complete virtual fetal pig dissection!  This is a great stand alone digital fetal pig dissection activity for the entire class.  It’s also great to be able to provide something for those students who miss the actual lab that you did.  Do you have students that do not want to participate in the real dissection?  Or, how about those students who stay home to learn?  How about an activity to follow up after a fetal pig dissection for a great review and deeper understanding of the organ functions?

Dissections!  This is a great stand alone digital frog dissection activity for the entire class.  It’s also great to be able to provide something for those students who miss the actual lab that you did.  Do you have students that do not want to participate in the real frog dissection?  Or, how about those students who stay home to learn?  How about an activity to follow up after a frog dissection for a great review and deeper understanding of the organ functions?  This digital frog dissection ac

No cadaver lab nearby?  Studying basic anatomy of organs can be as much fun online as it is doing the real dissections.  Some teachers and parents try to have students dissect fetal  pigs.  Some find that frogs are a good alternative.  I have found the perfect solution to the world of closeness to humans.  How about studying the anatomy of a zombie?  They have all the internal organs that real humans have because…well, they were once human.  :)   Your students will love learning basic organ anat

Students will think you are the craziest and coolest teacher around when you perform this simple demonstration on Valentine’s or Mother’s Day while teaching or reviewing concepts of acid/bases and indicators. You let them know that you are giving them an idea to perform for that significant other in their life during this special time. Once you set the scenario up, you take out a couple of ingredients that are found in most kitchen pantries paint them on a large sheet of paper and presto, yo

Rip off an arm, tear off a leg and have those body parts grow into a new person identical to the original person they came from while that person re-grows a new arm and leg!!!??? Sounds like a horror movie, right? Definitely an appropriate thought for Halloween! In this activity you are going to do something similar! You will be ripping off body parts from a particular plant and having your students “grow” identical plants from these body parts! AHHHHHHHH! That’s right; your students will

Not good at catching a bunch of grasshoppers for your students to dissect?   Studying basic anatomy of organs can be as much fun online as it is doing the real dissections.  Some teachers and parents try to have students dissect fetal pigs.  Some find that frogs are a good alternative.  This is a great stand alone all digital grasshopper anatomy drag & drop activity for the entire class.  It’s also great to be able to provide something for those students who miss the actual lab that you did.

From learning to eating; plant and animal cells made from gummy bears is the most favored labs of my students. And why not? After all, it does have to do with “Gummy Bears”! The trick was to figure out how to transform gummy bears into cells. I mastered the art of doing this and passed it on to my students and now to you. I had to monitor this lab very carefully though, otherwise, I may not have had enough gummy bears for the lab! Students wanted to eat them throughout class time! This

Oooh’s and Ahhh’s will come from your students when you display this illusion up! This optical illusion will play tricks on your students mind when they see ghostly hearts dancing in the air; like magic! What's really fun is to have your students try and explain what just happened!? Activities like this during the Valentine’s Holiday or for Mother’s Day really create a fun learning environment for students of any age or discipline. Students of all ages will love this demonstration. Elementa

Math recipe review game is a fun way to have students review math concepts of addition, subtraction, & multiplication of fractions. A great activity for the math common core! This game is tied to the whiteboard activity. So, in addition to gaining student insight on math concepts by having them work out problems on the white board, you throw in this fun activity that is tied to food and their favorite recipies and abra cadabra, you have just now turned this into a game! Any time you can tie

Wow! I hope that wasn’t my recipe that my teacher was following! That’s exactly what students begin to think as you demonstrate the importance of writing with detail. (Critical Writing) Your students will understand exactly why it is important to write with detail after you perform this demonstration! Not only do students learn that important concept, but they will also laugh and giggle as you perform this demonstration. I have had students say, “that was the best demonstration you’ve done

Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your students about the functions of the human heart? Look no further than "Truth or Zombie Fiction: Decoding the Anatomical Functions of a Human Zombie Heart"! This activity includes a fun story line about a zombie named Zed who has a unique heart with ten functions. Students will read each function and use digital highlighting to determine whether it is true for a regular human heart or zombie fiction. They will also use red font to indicate their an

This is a Halloween activity your students will be talking about for a long time! Your students will witness Halloween pictures being cut out by a ghost! Using a solution that you mix up, you’ll simply paint (or trace) a pattern of any Halloween picture and presto, your demonstration is ready! That Simple! When you are ready to perform the trick, simply touch one little edge of the solution anywhere on the picture with a tiny flame and the picture begins to get cut out….by itself… The pic

Instead of protecting brains, this plant grows skulls to protect its seeds! Grow plant skulls and make plant skull pencil toppers (good luck charms) to help foster in children the fun of gardening. That’s right, the plants you are going to grow with your students have pods that look like skulls, (some actually look like alien skulls!) Most kids do not like the thought of weeding a garden or having anything to do with gardening. The classroom teacher can help parents foster gardening fun by do

Randomly selected!  That’s the truth!  This interactive States & Capitals review game is fun, and can be played as an entire class!  You, the teacher, spin the digital wheel, a number is generated and the selected student (which can also be randomly selected using the same digital device) drags the animated, bouncing arrow out to the correct state.  You can either quiz them on the placement of the state by name of the state and/or placement of the state by what the capital is.   No matter if y

This template can be added to any PowerPoint presentation you are using just prior to Halloween; in any subject! The first slide is a dungeon, lightening and different fun animated Halloween characters appear and then disappear; some running across the screen, some glide down the screen, others fly across the screen. Embedded Halloween music accompanies this show. The first slide is about 8 minutes long. If you don’t need the whole 8 minutes, then just click the mouse and it will take you t

This game is a fun way to have students review concepts in any type of class or course. Any time you have a review about vocabulary, concepts, problems, terms, or whatever, you can bet that this game will bring out the laughs and students will want to review every day! This game is fun! Your students will want to get the question you ask right or they will have to pay the consequences of not studying! How? By having to throw the beanbag on the floor mat, see where it lands and do exactly

I have thought of ways to reduce the amount of paper used in the classroom. Disclosure statements seem to be at the top of my list for paper reduction. One way I have reduced paper is through an online disclosure and signature process. In fact, the purchase and implementation of this packet will be less money spent than what most teachers normally spend on disclosures in one year! Students can have their parents look at the disclosure, have them read and electronically sign, and then submit it

This underground maze of tunnels PowerPoint template is animated. It shakes like the ground is moving during an earthquake. Both the worm and the ant is shaking right along with the ground. The word "Earthquake" does not shake however and can be changed to fit whatever unit you would like. (Simply click on the word and change it to a different theme word.) This is a fun beginning slide to add to your unit on earthquakes or plate tectonics. This template will certainly enhance your PowerPoi

Students using technology as well as researching to learn the parts of a flower is exactly what is needed in the digital-age classroom!  Researching and learning the basic parts of a flower can be as much fun online as it is doing hands-on paper activities.  Your students will love dragging and dropping bees over to the correct parts of the flower.  There is virtually no preparation for this activity.  It is all built online including a self graded quiz that you can give online afterwards. These