Math-Sci-Guy

This bundle contains the materials I use to teach an Astronomy course. It contains notes, activities, tests, and review. Most answer keys are included at the end of each handout. -The notes are all fill-in-the-blank style, with answer keys for you to refer to while teaching. -There are also projects/activities for students to work on. -The tests are in Google Forms and will (mostly) auto-grade themselves. -The linked videos come with with comprehension quizzes (also self-grading in Google Forms)

This laboratory activity is about streams and erosion. It lets students watch erosion happen, deltas form, etc, and gives them experience trying to fight erosion. You will need stream tables, sand, buckets, etc to run this lab. This is one of the labs that I find my students have the most fun with. And honestly, the best lesson comes when some groups finish early and I tell them to try building dams and see how long they can stop the stream for. It usually only takes about a minute before som

This is an expanded version of the free isolines practice that I offer. In addition to the isolines practice that that file has, this one also includes notes about isolines to go over with students, as well as answer keys to the notes and practice worksheets.

This is a single page (front & back) of fill-in-the-blank notes for teaching high school students how to identify the transformations of functions by looking at the equation. The answer key is included. Please do not re-post this on-line for others, and only give paper copies of the blank version to students. (Writing things by hand vastly improves memory & recall - make them fill in the blanks themselves!) Note: After this lesson, I assign the odd numbered questions from this worksheet

Everybody loves Christmas songs, but as teachers we also prize mental stimulation. This activity has the names of many popular Christmas songs written verbosely; the goal is to figure out the original titles. This is a great activity to do on the last day before winter break. (After doing this with my students, some of them learned that they don't know as many Christmas songs as they thought they did, and others learned that they know a lot of Christmas songs but only remember them after hear

Bundle includes: Lab Report Format (handout) Lab Report Format (for printing poster-size) Correct-This-Lab This is the format for all labs students turn in throughout the year. It works great for me for the NYS Regents lab requirement, but is a great format anywhere. I've also made a printout to be used as an activity with the class, picking out the errors of a "bad" lab and correcting them. I have included Word documents and PDFs for your convenience.

This printout gives students an opportunity to explore a (possibly) real-life situation, empirically determine the minimum number of moves required to accomplish the task, then gather the data and find a pattern to describe it. The activity is completely printable (which also gives students the opportunity to do something with their hands (cutting) and lets them practice fine motor coordination, though if you want to spice it up students could cut discs out of corrugated cardboard (

Kids do lots of homework/practice/exercises, generally for a test. I wanted to give my students something that wasn't tested but would still be valuable to their lives/development. So far, I have typed up enrichment activities that have kids exercising, baking, improving how well they deal with uncertainty, typing equations (instead of hodgepodging it), learning an easier quadratic formula (because I'm a math teacher, after all), learning new study skills, improving communication, and learning

Here are some printable unit circle diagrams. One has all special angles and coordinates labeled on it in degrees and radians; one has blank spaces for all of the labels, and the third is also blank but without the spaces for radian angle measures. The first quadrant also includes the calculation for each coordinate pair, so you can discuss the pattern and how understanding the pattern removes the need for memorization of this entire page of data. The files are zipped PDFs.

In this lab, students graph yearly sunspot data and make predictions about the future of the sunspot cycle. Additionally, there is currently an interactive here ( https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/sun/research) where students can count sunspots and compare their numbers to the actual data. If you like this, PLEASE rate it (favorably?) and consider purchasing some of my other work.

This is a collection of common geometry formulas/equations that can be printed and/or posted for student reference, possibly given for use on a quiz, etc. This is the original MS Word document, so feel free to add or remove equations as necessary.

This printout of some NASA news article headings gives teachers the chance to discuss the crash of the Mars Climate Orbiter, which happened because one contracted company built part of the computer to think in metric units and another built a different part to think in imperial units. That's $193 million wasted because people didn't carefully label their units! The back of the printout has the SI unit prefixes, so this can be an introduction to them, and how metric conversion is so much simpler