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This lesson is compatible with Google Slides™. Your students will be required to use their powers of observation to analyze photographs of phenomena. Using the interactive features of slides for google, they must identify which of Earth’s spheres are interacting in the photo, and then drag and drop the system icons in the correct location. They must then type an explanation of how the systems are interacting with each other. We have included an answer key to cover the major interactions in th

This Nuclear Energy package shows how nuclear power is produced and the energy transformations that must happen in order to make electricity. The package includes an editable, interactive PowerPoint presentation which shows how nuclear energy is released from uranium atoms, and the types of transformations the energy undergoes in order to make Nuclear Power into electricity. The presentation makes liberal use of diagrams and pictures to illustrate the points simply and clearly. This presentat

Break the ice of the first few days of back to school science class, while teaching your students your expectations of how to write an excellent lab report. This fun, high interest student lab does just that. In groups of three, students will chew bubblegum and measure the bubbles to see if sugar free bubblegum makes bigger bubbles than regular bubblegum. Students can collect their data on the form provided and use our pre-formatted Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to create a line chart and col

Science Literacy Reading Article - Water and Life: Our Search in Space is an engaging and well-illustrated, high school science reading article that explores the possibility of life in space. Using specific information discovered by NASA, this article helps promote students’ science literacy. as well. It shows why water is an essential ingredient for life to develop, and then explores some bodies in our solar system where scientists think life could possibly arise. This article contains

This Reading Comprehension passage and Stem Activity package combines close reading of a science informational text along with a STEM project to reinforce the reading. The passage uses text based questions which require evidence based answers to help develop close reading skills. Answer key is included. You can use this package in a number of ways: • As a stand-alone unit for the entire class • As supplemental material for students who finish a task early • As a package for a substitute tea

Conductors or Insulators of Electricity PowerPoint Game This product uses a 27-slide PowerPoint presentation with very high-quality pictures and a selection of common and not so common materials to engage and teach students how to classify materials according to their property of conduction or insulation of electricity. A form is provided for students to record their answers. An additional PowerPoint Answer Key presentation is included to go over and discuss the answers with the students. This

Mercury: Exploring the Solar System is a highly engaging and well-illustrated science literacy reading on the planet Mercury. It can be used as part of a solar system or astronomy unit or as a stand-alone close reading assignment. Two short videos on Mercury have been provided to use as an introduction. The reading passage covers Mercury’s place in the Solar System and compares Mercury with Earth. It also covers conditions on the surface of Mercury and covers the temperatures and features

This STEM product addresses Next Generation Science - Common Core Standards with an editable PowerPoint presentation on wind energy, its environmental benefits, and the challenges wind energy faces to become a supplier of electricity. This product is a 16 slide editable power point presentation. The PowerPoint shows how windmills use wind energy to generate electricity. It also covers the benefits of generating electricity with wind, and the issues associated with wind energy and the environme

Use this instructional video to show your students how to insert music into their PowerPoint presentations. This video shows not only how to insert music, but also how to trim the music to only the part of the song or the specific lyrics you want, and tie them to the specific slides. It clearly demonstrates how music can be used either for the entire presentation or for selected slides or groups of slides. The video can be paused at any time to answer questions or deal with student proble

This package on scientific notation includes a set of student notes suitable for inclusion in an interactive notebook or binder. You can use this package to either introduce scientific notation for the first time, or as a review of scientific notation if needed. The handout shows how to convert standard notation numbers to scientific notation and how to go from scientific notation back to standard notation. Several practice problems on scientific notation are provided which also include conv