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Students work through the scientific method to practice observations, research statements, hypotheses, variables, and conclusions.They analyze the fascinating scene unfolding in front of them to learn about bonds and equilibrium. You can even relate this to their own lives and why we use soap to wash our clothes/dishes!

What happens when milk is combined with coke? This cool reaction takes just 24 hours to see!

How many drops of water will the head of a penny hold? This lab is great for any time of the year to introduce or practice the scientific method. Make observations, a hypothesis, and analyze the surprising results!

This is a research project that allows students to guide their own learning about ten types/forms of energy. It includes a rubric for their presentation and note template for students to complete throughout all presentations! This project is a student favorite and lasts about a week.

Use this interactive calendar time with your students both in the classroom and at home! I found that I needed to create a calendar time that I could project for all students to see. Best part? It's interactive! You can move all of the pictures to build you calendar and students can take turns interacting with the days of the week, weather graph, and calendar.

Here is a power point that I have perfected over the years. It includes information on abiotic vs. biotic factors, characteristics of living things, classification systems, autotrophs vs. heterotrophs, and the 6 kingdoms! You will love this information-packet power point.

Notes about waves, their characteristics, wave interaction, properties of waves, and the two types of mechanical waves.

Attached are two documents. The first is a spreadsheet of 6 different cities followed by columns for the date, sunrise time, sunset time, high temperature, low temperature and 2-3 websites where information can be found. (This wouldn't load as a preview.) The second is the sheet you see below with questions encouraging students to analyze their data for patterns to learn more about how the globe is affected by Earth's revolution around the Sun.

Use this resource to bring engineering to life as students sketch, plan, budget for, and build the perfect leprechaun trap! Be sure to ask students what they want to buy from your store, how much it costs, and which coins they will need to purchase those items. This project was a lot of fun for my class.

Use this presentation to review polygons: quadrilaterals, and triangles with individual students, parterns, small group, or your whole class. There are ten questions with answers and a bonus.

This power point is great for Smart boards etc. Its slides are linked to the first one so that students can take turns matching vocabulary terms to their definitions. Just like in the game "Memory", students must remember what they have seen so they can make each correct match.

Here are some ideas and printouts for classroom rewards that don't cost you money! Simply print them as posters for students to point to, or smaller handouts for students to choose as part of your classroom management system.

Test that assesses students' knowledge of the characteristics and types of protists. This includes the organelles of a protist and their functions.

Assessment of wave interaction, mechanical waves, and wave characteristics. Answers for matching: DHCFLAKJ Answers for pictures: reflection, refraction, transverse wave

Create a timeline of the events leading up to the formation of the United States with your entire class, small groups, or individual projects. This timeline could also be used as an outline for higher education essays.

This interactive jeopardy review game covers the following topics: solar radiation, thermal energy, winds, air masses, fronts, and vocabulary.

Set these up around the room and students can rotate through them to review lab safety.

This package includes a crown, bookmark, 100 exercises, word activity and more for the 100th day of school.

This is an interactive Jeopardy game meant to review the hydrological cycle and water filtration systems.

Use this resource to sketch the phases of the moon throughout the month. Then review with questions about shading, where the terms waxing, waning, gibbous, etc. come from.