Usable Tomorrow

In case you haven't seen it: Students make 2 parallel lines, a few yards apart. They turn back to back, and choose what resource they will be looking for when they turn back (deer line), or what resource they will provide (habitat line). They make the symbol, and THEN turn around (no changing!). Deer who grab the resource they need get to reproduce and the resource becomes their offspring (move to deer line). Deer who do not get their resource die and become part of the habitat. Limiting factor

NGSS MS-LS2-3 (Middle School Life Science) Project Goal Design, build, and explain a model that shows how energy moves and matter cycles in an ecosystem. Your model should help others understand how living and nonliving parts work together.

Just need two dice for each pair of students! They play this game (all instructions and worksheets included) that simulates changes in an ecosystem (both abiotic and biotic) that affect a quail population, and then they analyze the limiting factors and graph the population change.

Students make their own slides to use with microscopes, so they need slides, cover slips, toothpicks, water, droppers, red onion skin, tweezers, and slide stain (full prep notes on page 3). They draw and then compare in a chart, then put comparison in a paragraph starting with a claim and using evidence to support their claim "Are plant and animal cells more similar or more different?"

In groups or individually, students use animal traits and habitat characteristics to match animals with the enclosure best suited for them. They analyze the survival needs and comfort of each animal within their enclosure based on traits.

Discuss modeling with students, and how different models help scientists show different concepts. Then, use models to help students understand how they are constructed. This model/diagram shows solar energy coming to Earth, solar energy reflected back into space, solar energy absorbed by Earth and then radiated back into our atmosphere, and solar energy absorbed and then radiated back into space. Students add labels to the cut outs to create their own model on paper, and pay attention to the siz

5 days of activities/lessons analyzing speaking, listening, and nonverbal cues

Students play Predator-Prey game online at https://smithsonianeducation.org/interactives/predatorvsprey/index.html and use this worksheet in partners to analyze ecosystem relationships!

Analyze value systems, eating, sleeping, exercise habits, strengthening weaknesses and unique identities

Begin with "Who Are We?" and end with "Overcoming Obstacles" enjoy this pack of a week's worth of SEL/ Health lessons

SEL topics like healthy and unhealthy relationships, forming friendships, changing relationships- I created this for my health class following our chapter on relationships

Students create wet mount of upper and lower epidermis of plant leaf cells and analyze how multicellular organisms use tissues to perform a function. Focus on photosynthesis and guard cells, stomata, in this activity analysis

Students need 4 plastic cups with the following mixtures: paper clips in water, cereal (can bring their favorite from home!), salt in water (SMALL amount of water for this one to evaporate overnight if you choose), marbles in sand. Students need a sifter, a magnet, and a worksheet Properties of matter, mixtures, solutions, physical and chemical change covered in this one period long activity

I use these questions to guide students through PBS Kids' Interactive online ecosystem game Feed the Dingo Topics covered are biodiversity, ecosystems, resources, populations, food webs, producers, consumers

one class period dedicated to active listening games, discussions

3 activities total one class period to teach students about overcoming obstacles (including Oprah, Jordan, Messi!)

one class period worth of activities to build community and teamwork

Second day in a series of identity affirming activities and community building lesson

Designed to be first in series/bundle, this is one class period worth of identity activities

students analyze snap decisions and careful decisions and identify what they need to make careful decisions