Digital modeling has become a staple skill in my middle school science class. When my colleague and I decided to try going completely paperless this year due to the pandemic, we…
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Must-Have Lab Essentials for Middle School Science
Someone recently reached out to me asking about my top lab equipment essentials for teaching middle school science. I thought this would be a good blog post! I know that I…
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Teach Paperless in Your Middle School Science Class!
When quarantine began last March, I was totally overwhelmed with how to deliver content effectively to my distance learners. I know I was not alone in this. My overwhelm was compounded…
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A Digital Graphing Project Using Real Great White Shark Data
Kids are fascinated by the mysterious and terrifying Great White Shark! For this fun digital graphing project, your middle school students will create digital graphs of real Great White Shark data.…
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Digital Doodle Notes: 7 Helpful Combinations for Hybrid and Remote Science Teaching
2020 = Flexibility For anyone who knows me, you know I have a deep love for visual aesthetics. My Cornell Doodle Notes were born out of a need for my students to…
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Add Some Fun to Your Google Classroom
When it became necessary to deliver ALL of my content through Google Classroom, I looked for ways to inject some FUN into it! Since I can’t see my students’ smiling faces…
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Distance Learning Tech Tools for Science Teachers
I’m one month into the distance learning adventure with my middle school science classes and I have had ups and downs with various tools that I’ve tried. I tried a handful…
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An Experimental Design Project That Is Not a Cookbook Lab
Experimental design is an umbrella term for a big concept! Science pedagogy used to have us box it up with a pretty bow and call it ‘the scientific method’. And in…
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Designing and Building Mousetrap Cars During Your Physics Unit
Student-designed mousetrap cars are a great way to incorporate engineering and design principles into your physics unit! Student groups will design, construct, and race their mousetrap cars while learning about energy…
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Optimize the Use of Cornell Doodle Notes in Your Science Class
I had a proud teacher moment this February when I realized that I had trained my 8th graders to effectively complete Cornell Doodle Notes all on their own. I put the…