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The first page is a very short guide to naming ionic and molecular compounds, with all of the key points listed clearly and succintly. The second page is a short guide for detemining the states for chemical compounds. It is most suitable for grade 10 science.

There are actually two poster projects in this bundle, which I designed for the same unit of Science 8, which was about the Earth's water. The first one is a project where students make a poster describing one of the major river systems of the world and its importance to plants, animals and human societies. In the second project, students make their own poster describing an aquatic food chain.

This is a lab for High School Physics courses. It guides students through an exploration of Ohm's law and Kirchoff's laws as well as the arrangement of series, parallel and combination circuits in a highly visual and tactile setting. This lab can be facilitated with a variety of different materials depending on what teachers have available but the most basic requirements are that teachers need a relatively large number wires with alligator clips, multimeters, and several batteries.

This is a simple hands on lab-like activity with minimal writing that is designed to give students an introduction to different types of soil. The first page is qualitative where students will draw what they see under a magnifying glass and describe it and the second page is quantitative where students will calculate the porosity or water content of the soil. It's best to use three different types of soil samples: sand, clay and potting soil.

This is a short powerpoint to introduce and outline the pleistocene ice ages and the effects of the Earth's orbit on the changing climate (Milankovitch cycles). It goes through only the most essential information to eliminate tangents and optimize student's understanding of how the 3 Milankovitch cycles work.

This is a hands on project where students simulate predator-prey relationships in an ecosystem of their choice. It's very engaging and it's typically done in groups of 2 or 3 students over the course of about 3 classes. This project involves a wonderful blend of art, literacy, numeracy, and science. Students get to be creative in designing their ecosystem. They get to do simulate the ecosystem in a board game type way. They record quantitative information and display it visually in a graph, and

This is a great lab for the kinematics unit in a high school physics class. Students kick a football and measure its distance and flight time. Then they use their measurements to calculate maximum height, initial velocity and angle of inclination. Great lab, just awesome.

This is a ppt that presents quantitative data describing the state of the world in the year 2021. It focuses on the depletion of five key natural resources: fish, forests, fossil fuels, forests and minerals. Data is presented in tables and a brief analysis is given after each table. The main purpose of these slides is to allow students to think about world affairs while getting some practice with numeracy skills.

This is a lab for the circular motion unit/chapter in high school physics. It involves measurements and calculations for 3 situations: vertical circular motion, horizontal circular motion, and projectile motion. It's a really engaging and worthwhile laboratory activity.

This is a questionnaire that can be attached as the last page of a unit test, midterm exam or final exam. The purpose is to cue students to reflect on what they've done in class, for homework and during the exam, and to provide the teacher with valuable feedback on how the students are doing in the class.

This is a computer lab for consolidating astronomy based concepts such as Kepler's laws, Universal gravitation, escape velocity and satellite motion. This package includes a powerpoint for introducing Kepler's laws, an excel file with the orbital elements of the planets, and a fill-in-the-blanks document that guides the students through the tasks of the lab. This is a good activity to do in a high school physics class that covers astronomy related topics. It also gives students good experience i

This is a great poster that illustrates the major events in mathematics that increased human understanding of the universe.

In this pack of teaching materials are about three days worth of powerpoints and worksheets that can introduce the biology part of junior high science in a very efficient and engaging way. Included here is an picture identification activity to introduce characteristics of living things, a worksheet where students will describe characteristics of a plant and animal of their choice, an introduction to cell theory powerpoint and vocabulary worksheet and an introduction to cell structures worksheet.