Are you a teacher in NYS getting ready for the NEW 2024-2025 Regents Examination?DO YOU HAVE A LOT OF SPANISH-SPEAKING STUDENTS?I took the first step in creating new worksheets/units/notes that are aligned to the new standards and the NEW 2024 Earth and Space Science Reference Tables.THIS BUNDLE IS FOR YOU - PERFECT FOR TEACHING, REVIEW, SUB PLANS, HOMEWORK, AND MORE!While the new Regents Exam seems daunting, I am a believer in that spending time with the new content and material will lead to s
This LOW-PREP activity is the perfect for your First Week of School routine in any high school science classroom. Instead of simply reading the Flinn Scientfic Safety Contract, students engage in a real-world scenario where they act as a hiring committee evaluating job applications from fictional lab assistants -- each with their own quirks, strengths, and safety habits. As students review the 8 applicants, they use evidence from the Flinn contract to determine which candidates demonstrate
Are you teaching the NEW NYS EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE REGENTS?Do you also have LOTS OF SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS?IF SO THIS PRODUCT IS FOR YOU! I have spent countless hours digesting the new NYSSLS for ESS and have developed 5E's to best align to the new standards and the new Regents Exam. *Note: You will receive free updates to these products as the new Exam becomes available and I can edit the products to better align*This LOW-PREP ENGLISH & SPANISH BUNDLE is all of the NOTES, SLIDES, LABS,
Are you teaching the NEW NYS EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE REGENTS?Do you also have LOTS OF SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS?If so, this product is for you! I have spent countless hours digesting the new NYSSLS for ESS and have developed these 5E's to best align to the new Exam. *Note: You will also receive free updates to the product as the new Exam becomes available and I can edit the products to better align*This LOW-PREP ENGLISH & SPANISH paper-based product is all of the NOTES, LABS, ACTIVITIES, and
Are you teaching the NEW NYS EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE REGENTS?Do you also have LOTS OF SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS?I am taking the first step in creating new worksheets/units/notes that are aligned to the new standards and the NEW 2024 Earth Science Reference Tables.THIS WORKSHEET IS FOR YOUWhile the new Regents Exam seems daunting, I am a believer in that spending time with the new content and material will lead to success in my classroom and yours too. This worksheet is PERFECT for a quick rev
This must do activity is the perfect Supplemental Activity for your Earth and Space Science Classroom! This activity is a fun and interactive way to get students analyzing and interpreting data, looking for patterns, and asking questions, all while developing and using a model! Students will use REAL DATA to explore a Star Cluster and see how organizing star data has allowed scientists to group stars based on the stage of their life cycle. I LOVE this activity. It does take some prep (Print
Are you teaching the NEW NYS EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE REGENTS?Do you also have LOTS OF SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS?I am taking the first step in creating new worksheets/units/notes that are aligned to the new standards and the NEW 2024 Earth Science Reference Tables.THIS WORKSHEET IS FOR YOU.While the new Regents Exam seems daunting, I am a believer in that spending time with the new content and material will lead to success in my classroom and yours too. This worksheet is PERFECT for a quick re
OpenSciEd Biology B.1 – Unit 1 Quiz BundleEditable • English & Spanish • Teacher-Tested This Unit 1 Quiz Bundle includes 11 lesson-aligned assessments designed to support student sensemaking throughout OpenSciEd Biology B.1: Ecosystem Interactions & Dynamics. Each quiz checks for understanding of key biology concepts while maintaining fidelity to the OpenSciEd storyline and NGSS expectations. These assessments are ideal for quick checks, formal grades, sub plans, or reteaching, and are written
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OpenSciEd Biology B.1 – Unit 1 Mid-Unit + Final Unit ExamEditable • English & Spanish • Teacher-TestedThis Unit 1 Assessment Bundle includes both major assessments for OpenSciEd Biology B.1: Ecosystem Interactions & Dynamics—a mid-unit and a final unit exam—giving you everything you need to assess student understanding from the first half of the unit through the end. Both assessments are data-driven, reasoning-focused, and state-test similar, making this bundle ideal for teachers who wan
OpenSciEd Biology B.1 – Lesson 2 Full Supplementation BundleEditable • English & Spanish • Teacher-Tested This Lesson 2 supplemental bundle includes all of my favorite OpenSciEd B.1 classroom extensions, designed to support student sensemaking around ecosystems, conservation, and human decision-making. Each resource is ready-to-use, editable, and bilingual, giving you flexible options for engagement, data analysis, discussion, projects, and assessment—all in one download. WHAT’S INCLUDED✔ Who
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This LOW-PREP activity is the perfect Supplemental Activity for your HS Earth and Space Science classroom. This activity gets students engaged in spectroscopy and reading star spectra by developing a model using a slinky for how the Doppler Effect changes light waves as a source moves towards and away from an observer. By having students develop the model, students get a tangible object and an experience that they can refer back to when applying the Doppler Effect to light spectra. Once student
Are you also teaching the new OpenSciEd™ Curriculum this year in your classroom? Do you also have a lot of Spanish-speaking students?Are you also tackling the Lesson 7 Serengeti game?IF YOU SAID YES TO ANY OF THOSE QUESTIONS, THIS PRODUCT IS FOR YOU.As I embark on adapting these materials to my TN High School Science classroom, I am posting my favorite adaptions and modifications on here to help other teachers use the high-quality instructional materials available to us. We took the chance of
Are you teaching the NEW NYS EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE REGENTS?Do you also have LOTS OF SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS?I am taking the first step in creating new worksheets/units/notes that are aligned to the new standards and the NEW 2024 Earth Science Reference Tables.THIS WORKSHEET IS FOR YOU.While the new Regents Exam seems daunting, I am a believer in that spending time with the new content and material will lead to success in my classroom and yours too. This worksheet is PERFECT for a quick re
This NO-PREP activity is the perfect Supplemental Activity for your HS Earth and Space Science classroom. This activity is a fun way to get students to understand the expertise that goes into predicting the occurrences of widespread Aurora Borealis, and to get students to understand the large-scale affects that our Sun has on Earth. By having students obtain information from videos, analyze and interpret data, and make predictions using observations, students act like real scientists to determ
This NO-PREP activity is the perfect Supplemental Activity for your HS Earth and Space Science classroom. This activity gets students engaged in spectroscopy and reading star spectra using an online model, and has students go back in time to learn about what data was available to Annie Jump Cannon and how she "accidentally" came up with the greatest star classification system ever. By having students collect data, analyze and interpret data, and engage in argument from evidence, students act
Are you teaching the NEW NYS EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE REGENTS?Do you also have LOTS OF SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS?If so, this product is for you! I have spent countless hours digesting the new NYSSLS for ESS and have developed these 5E's to best align to the new Exam. *Note: You will also receive free updates to the product as the new Exam becomes available and I can edit the products to better align*This LOW-PREP ENGLISH & SPANISH paper-based product is all of the NOTES, LABS, ACTIVITIES, an
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