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'Team Captain • Project Manager • Reporter • Supply TechnicianGrades 5–9Build stronger collaboration, accountability, and student voice with these Student Job Role Cards designed for upper elementary and middle school learners. Perfect for group work, STEM/STEAM challenges, PBL, labs, and collaborative discussions, these cards clearly define expectations and provide student-friendly sentence starters to support productive teamwork. Each role includes: A clear role description Specific respo

Bring the excitement of the Winter Olympics into your classroom with this engaging, station-based science lesson! Students explore the real science behind Olympic sports through videos, readings, hands-on investigation, and critical thinking questions. This resource is perfect for middle school science, enrichment days, sub plans, STEM rotations, or pre/post-break learning. Students rotate through four interactive stations (video & reading/writing), making clear connections between biology

Engineering Design • Environmental Science • Grades 5–8Turn failure into powerful learning with this hands-on EcoSTEAM engineering challenge! Students take on the role of environmental engineers as they design, test, fail, redesign, and improve a water filter to clean polluted water—just like real engineers do. This resource goes beyond a simple STEM activity by emphasizing iteration, data collection, trade-offs, and real-world water access issues. 📦 What’s Included ✔️ Student Workshe

Printable labels to place in a plastic, 2 sided, lanyard sheaths ( Like: https://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Vertical-Assorted-Leather-Business/dp/B00N1RII62/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1504637760&sr=8-20&keywords=lanyard+id+holder ) . Simply edit your name and room number, print out, cut in quarters, then, fold each set in half and place into the holder. Feel free to change the font or text colors too! This method helps prevent nasty situations with the hall pass and decreases the amount of specific no

Students use this template to reflect on how they have used Science & Engineering Practices this marking period (MP). This helps them analyze their MP grade, give grows/glows, link work they are proud of, and acknowledge missing work. Students then reflect on 4 questions that help them reflect on areas of improvement in groupwork and supports they would like from family and teachers. Most slides can be edited. Question slide would need added textboxes to change the questions. Students will ne

Dress up your bulletin board with these fun polka dotted board labels. Print these labels on cardstock or laminate paper for added strength. Glue on magnets, use double sided tape, staple, or use clips/pins to hold in place. Printable Included labels are: Date, Lesson, Target, Homework, and Announcements. Blanks allow you to write in other titles or edit those that already exist. NOTE: "Target" label is appropriate in the editable version, even though the thumbnail does appear off.

Students use this template to reflect on a past marking period (MP). Great for advisory or homeroom teachers!This helps students analyze their MP grade in each class, give grows/glows, link work they are proud of, and acknowledge missing work. Students then reflect on 4 questions that help them reflect on areas of improvement in groupwork and supports they would like from family and teachers. Most slides can be edited. Clip art slide to add images to each content area (ex: favorite, Help!, thu

Use this document to track student assignments, participation, or exams after being graded. Copy and Paste your student roster into this Excel document. Then, type in your assignments and their values (you can also write them in after it is printed). Use this paper copy to check assignments in the moment and input their scores into a computer later. Workbook is set up for 4 Classes. You can copy and paste a sheet to create another class OR only print the sheets for the classes you have. Make s

Each card has an image, Practical Job Role, Sound Bite with some sentence starters or questions, and Speaking Role to guide lab groups equally through an experiment. When working in smaller groups, multiple cards can be given to one student. Can be used to differentiate job roles for high and low students. These cards have been blown up and used as posters in my classroom. Print out and glue to card-stock and laminate for extended use. Add to lanyards for students to wear. Use a poster maker t

Criticality (according to the Hill Model) is the capacity to read, write, and think in ways of understanding power, privilege, social justice, and oppression, particularly for populations who have been historically marginalized in the world. In this assignment, students will research a Astrophysicist and Researcher from Virginia, Dr. Jedidah Isler, and reflect on the obstacles or oppression she faced on her journey to becoming a STEM professional. Slides should be assigned one per student or gr

Criticality (according to the Hill Model) is the capacity to read, write, and think in ways of understanding power, privilege, social justice, and oppression, particularly for populations who have been historically marginalized in the world. In this assignment, students will research a Molecular Biologist from Harlem, Dr. Eric Jarvis, and reflect on the obstacles or oppression he faced on his journey to becoming a STEM professional. Slides should be assigned one per student or group. Includes

Printable labels to place in a plastic, 2 sided, lanyard sheaths ( Like: https://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Vertical-Assorted-Leather-Business/dp/B00N1RII62/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1504637760&sr=8-20&keywords=lanyard+id+holder ) . Simply print out, write your name and room number, cut in quarters, then, fold each set in half and place into the holder. Feel free to change the font or text colors too! This method helps prevent nasty situations with the hall pass and decreases the amount of specific n

Dress up your bulletin board with these fun polka dotted board labels. Print these labels on cardstock or laminate paper for added strength. Glue on magnets, use double sided tape, staple, or use clips/pins to hold in place. Printable Included labels are: Date, Lesson, Target, Homework, and Announcements. Blanks allow you to write in other titles. See editable word version in my store.