Teaching With Data

Exit Tickets: Speed & Velocity (Middle School Physics)These 7 ready-to-use exit tickets are designed to help middle school science students (or on-level physics students) check their understanding of speed, velocity, distance, and displacement. Each exit ticket is short, focused, and rigorous—perfect for a quick assessment at the end of class or as a warm-up the next day. What’s Included: 7 exit tickets covering key motion concepts Answer key for all ticketsSkills Covered: Distance vs. displace

Here are 7 different exit tickets all covering the basic properties of matter! End class with a fast, 3–4 minute Exit Ticket that checks for understanding of elements vs. compounds, solutions, chemical vs. physical changes, and more! Perfect for catching misconceptions, tracking progress, and adjusting your teaching—all in a low-stress, print-and-go format

Atom Counting Maze: Beginner, Medium, and Intermediate Levels!Jazz up your chemistry lessons with this Atom Counting Maze, a fun and engaging way for students to practice counting atoms in chemical formulas! With three levels of difficulty— Beginner, Medium, and Intermediate—this maze offers differentiated practice to meet the needs of all learners. Each maze includes opportunities to practice with coefficients, subscripts, and parentheses, helping students strengthen their understanding of at

Quick and easy card sort activity! Here is a card sort activity equipped with basic and challenge cards to help differentiate and target every learner. I would print these and have students cut them. (They are all mixed up.) After they cut, they can sort you can discuss the solution. Students then can place these in a plastic bag, and you have a card sort for years to come!

Create stations, centers, or individualized interventions with this resource. This aid allows students to review the structure and function of RNA and DNA. This is a great formative assessment for students because the key is included. I highly recommend shrinking the key to 35% and placing it face-down next to students when they complete it. When they are done, they can flip it over and self-assess. I print and laminate mine so I can use them year after year. Included is just the visual card

I use these notes to create my version of interactive notes. This resource is very flexible and can be used for notes, a review, or a worksheet. Have students practice and easily visualize the significant parts of prokaryotes versus eukaryotes. A key is included!

Quick lesson and worksheet that compares and contrasts the three states of matter in terms of volume, mass, and kinetic energy. The worksheet is designed to be a notes page that allows for independent practice of the material. This is a phenomena driven mini lesson that discusses how microwaves heat food.

Physical vs. Chemical Changes – Engaging STAAR Review Card Sort! Looking for a hands-on way to review physical and chemical changes just in time for the 8th Grade STAAR? This interactive card sort activity gets your students sorting and discussing key concepts, helping them prepare effectively for the test. How It Works: Students will sort scenario cards into either the Physical Change or Chemical Change categories. Each card presents a real-world scenario, and students must decide wh

Worksheet covering basic mendelian genetics. #8 Teaches students how to do an F1 and F2 generation cross. Phenotypic and genotypic ratios are assessed on this worksheet! Key included.