Smart Science

Is AI impacting your ability to teach and students' ability to learn? Make Critical thinking using concrete examples and supported reasoning a priority in your classroom. Are you familiar with what cognitive psychologists have found to be the most effective strategies for student learning, such as Spaced Practice, Retrieval Practice, Elaboration, Interleaving, Concrete Examples, and Dual Coding? Are teacher-scientists catalysts for making that learning happen? This curriculum was desi

Is critical thinking using concrete examples and supported reasoning a priority in your classroom ? Are teacher-scientists catalysts for making that learning happen? This curriculum was designed with those very ideas in mind. Lessons are interactive and student work involves critical thinking and application of lessons. Consider some student feedback from this course: "Class was fun and very informative, Instructor had many different ways of learning including hands on experiments, n

This Unit/lesson bundle contains READY-TO-TEACH and EDITABLE Lessons and all supporting files you need to teach from beginning to end. "Land and Water Use" is one of 8 units developed for a comprehensive and progressive Smart Curriculum for high school Environmental Science that is nearly all digital and paperless. This unit covers the topics according to the Mind Map image shown. Although this unit and the others in the course function as a general introductory environmental science course, t

This Unit/lesson bundle contains READY-TO-TEACH and EDITABLE Lessons and all the supporting files you need to teach from beginning to end. "Earth Systems & Resources" is one of 8 units developed for a comprehensive and progressive Smart Curriculum for high school Environmental Science that is nearly all digital and paperless. This unit covers the topics according to the Mind Map image shown. Although this unit and the others in the course function as a general introductory environmental scie

This Unit/lesson bundle contains READY-TO-TEACH and EDITABLE Lessons and all supporting files you need to teach from beginning to end. "The Living World" is one of 8 units developed for a comprehensive and progressive Smart Curriculum for high school Environmental Science that is nearly all digital and paperless. This unit covers the topics according to the Mind Map image shown. Although this unit and the others in the course function as a general introductory environmental science course, the

This Unit bundle contains READY-TO-TEACH and EDITABLE Notebook/PowerPoint(Your Choice) Lessons and all you need to teach from beginning to end. "Energy Resources and Consumption" is one of 8 units developed for a comprehensive and progressive Smart Curriculum for high school Environmental Science that is nearly all digital and paperless. This unit covers the topics according to the Mind Map image shown. Although this unit and the others in the course function as a general introductory environm

This is a thoughtfully designed guide for the PBS Mystery of Matter video series. The guide has been designed to be easy for students to follow and pull out significant ideas, complete with Chronology, Appropriate Section Headings, Direct Quotations, and Emphasis on Main Ideas. It has also been designed for ease of use by instructors or substitutes: Blank lines when appropriate make it easy to check/grade, a reasonably expected time slot allows time for attendance and/or loading video or par

This is a 40ish-minute lesson designed for younger children to be introduced to the Fur Trade in North America. The lesson is designed for interaction. Relevant props are helpful, but not required. Students identify individual animals, identify types of furs, and identify the different uses of furs in fashion. My original audience that I designed this for included Prek-3rd grade, but this presentation can easily be adapted for higher levels, and includes opportunities and suggestions for

The "Chemistry Quint-a-sense" series is a fun multisensory way to involve all five senses in the learning process. Students are given an audio-visual treat that is followed by a second treat that can be touched, tasted, and smelled! WHAT WILL I GET WITH THIS PRODUCT? This download is week 21 in the Chemistry Quint-a-sense series, and is meant to correlate best with the Valentines Day week. You will get a sharable mini-lesson, which can be presented over the course of 3-5 minutes (this is th

The "Chemistry Quint-a-sense" series is a fun way to involve all five senses in the learning process. Students are given an audio-visual treat that is followed by a second treat that can be touched, tasted, and smelled! WHAT WILL I GET WITH THIS PRODUCT? This download is week 24 in the Chemistry Quint-a-sense series, and is meant to correlate best with the last week in February. You will get a sharable mini-lesson, which can be presented over the course of 3-10 minutes, and remembered for

The "Chemistry Quint-a-sense" series is a fun way to involve all five senses in the learning process. Students are given an audio-visual treat that is followed by a second treat that can be touched, tasted, and smelled! WHAT WILL I GET WITH THIS PRODUCT? This download is week 23 in the Chemistry Quint-a-sense series, and is meant to correlate best with Presidents Day week. You will get a sharable mini-lesson, which can be presented over the course of 3-10 minutes, and remembered for years