Physics Hawk

Have students research on of the periodic trends as a group and create a teaching aid (It is described as a poster here, but it could just as easily be a video or web page) and present their findings to the class.

If you want your lab safety lesson to be a bit more interactive, try this. Divide class into groups of three. Assign each group one of the "Ten Commandments of Lab Safety" and have them act out a skit.

Students need practice with putting things in scientific notation and interpreting numbers that are in scientific notation. This short practice is good for those who learned earlier but need a refresher.

When teaching about the atom, I find that I am frequently asked by students, “Well, if we’ve never seen one, how do we know if any of this is true?” This activity guides them through making non-visual observations and drawing conclusions based on those observations.

Each piece of lab equipment was designed with a purpose. It's important for students to know the names of equipment and what their purpose is so they can use them for the right tasks (and not just call everything a beaker). This reading explains some basic equipment and their uses.

Having students evaluate what NASA does and what they should do is a great way to teach research skills, argumentative writing, and include great scientific content. Plus, it involves all the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy because they are synthesizing, evaluating, and creating. (This product differs from the other in providing a Biblical Worldview Integration section in the instructions as well as requiring them to write from a Biblical Worldview in the rubric.)

Having students evaluate what NASA does and what they should do is a great way to teach research skills, argumentative writing, and include great scientific content. Plus, it involves all the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy because they are synthesizing, evaluating, and creating.

Engage students in retrieval practice by having them calculate how many atoms of an element or polyatomic ions there are in a given compound. Help to remind them of the difference between subscripts and coefficients and prepare them for balancing chemical equations.

This may be the most useful tool I ever made for my students. It lays out all three bond types with the rules of formula writing and compound naming, examples, and any quirks they'll run across. A great "at a glance" help sheet to use as a scaffold.

The periodic table contains so much information that it lends itself well to a game. Having students create the game will require them to research what how that information is organized. If you students with artistic skills, they can shine in board design. Students are highly skilled in research can contribute their talent. Then, spend a day of retrieval practice by having groups trade games and play.

Print these and cut into strips. You have a random generator game lab equipment questions to be used for whiteboard retrieval practice, family feud style games, or just filling the few minutes you sometimes have at the end of class.

The key to learning how to balance chemical equations is practice. This includes a set of guidelines and a worked example. Pair it with the balancing equations instructional video, and your students will be balancing in no time.

Students need to practice writing formula and naming compounds in an interleaved way. This practice sheet includes binary ionic, binary covalent, and polyatomic compounds.

This chart allows students to organize their notes into a chart that covers the main topics in the periodic table while being able to compare and contrast things in one sheet at a glance.

This sheet has 7 practice problems on Charles' Law, Boyle's Law, Avogadro's Law, and the Combined Law. It includes the key.

If you want to give kids some practice problems on metric conversion for homework or classwork, try these.

These are safety questions to use for retrieval. They are adaptable to any game or class questioning format. Cut them into strips and you have a random questions generator.