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Students learn the meaning of maritime, continental, tropical, and polar air masses and are able to practice identifying where they come from.

Here is an example of our first Ancient Twitter. Students choose a scientist to research and then create a tweet as if they were that scientist. The tweets are meant to tell us a little about that scientist and their life. Then we share one scientist's tweet each day as students walk in the room.

Mark and Recapture is one of the 4 methods used to count populations. This lab allows students to run through two scenarios of mark and recapture with turtles to see how the method works and what we can learn from the data gathered. Paper turtles are provided!

Assessment for Earth's rotation, revolution, orbit, seasons, solstices, equinoxes and more.

Use any or all of these labs to help students practice the scientific method. Some come with helpful hints or what to write as research, variables, constants, etc. I have also used portions of this as a hands-on summative assignment instead of a test.

Students experiment to determine which substance heats up and cools down quicker; sand/soil or water. This is a great way to introduce atmospheric and oceanic currents as well as land and sea breezes.

Here are over 30 questions and answers that you can use throughout the year as bell ringers or at the end of the year as part of your state test prep/final exam review. Answers are included. These questions are aligned to the 8th grade science curriculum.

17 questions to give your students orally or written. Answers included! Students could answer these with a partner, on their own, as a bonus assignment, or even as a class competition. This resource can also be used to help students sketch lunar and solar eclipses.

presentation or pdf explaining lake effect snow

These posters will help you build a classroom mindset promoting kindness, effort, and positivity. I like to post one each week for the first half of the year and then revisit them for the second half as we grow as learners and people. Students can train their brain to believe in themselves and others.

This project is a great way to wrap up energy and energy transfer! Students work together to synthesize what they have learned about energy and use that knowledge to compare energy use before 1600 to energy use today.

Use this presentation to analyze the height, weight, and age of various athletes. Students will then calculate averages and determine "the ideal athlete for each sport" OR which sport a skateboarder, horse jockey, and figure skater, might prefer to their own.

This activity will help you introduce, inspire, and review lab safety rules. Students can make their own memes for your lab safety rules where you list the rule or a clue like we did.

What determines weather a breeze is a land or sea breeze? Students illustrate what time of day it is as well as where the wind is coming from/going to during a land and a sea breeze.

Here are 16 different class awards for boys and girls. I let them vote for each other, but you could also decide what you think fits best too.

Allow students to create their own survey questions to practice data collection and analysis with this fun template!

Looking for new posters to spice up your room? Check these positive and inspirational phrases and quotes out.

Use the telephone game to show students how inaccurate rumors can be and how they make us feel. Then switch to the "Love vs Hate" activity.

We are living in a truly historical time. Although unfortuante, it allows us to share and grow. Here is an oral history template for the Covid-19 Quarantine.

Can your students guess each biome just by reading these poems? Each gives the key abiotic factors in a fun way.