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Hands on Learning with STEM
STEM learning is SO popular right now. Are you overwhelmed with seeing all the STEM activities for middle school, preschool, even STEM activities for kindergarten! Where do you start with STEM? Here that’s where! Let’s break down all the nuts and bolts of STEM and get you started with activities to engage students in STEM…
Read MoreHands On Lessons for Dominant and Recessive Traits Alien style
Genetics was always such a fun topic to teach! I loved this science topic because you could dive deep and really get students involved. I taught this in 5th grade with dominant and recessive traits but I’ve also walked in middle school and even HIGH school classrooms where they were learning the same thing! Once…
Read MoreBubble Painting that POPs – Smile at your new favorite background!
Bubble painting is your new favorite summer science activity! Are you looking for an activity that combines art and science and is super entertaining? Kids love bubbles and with such few supplies this is something you can pull off in your home or classroom any day! Supplies: dish soap tempera paint ( I love this…
Read MoreYou’ve started with STEM Now What? Elevating your Lessons with STEM Connections
So Maybe you’ve wanted to start with STEM but not sure where. Check out this list of prep and resources with TONS of freebies (!) to help get ideas and read on to see just how easy to implement with some lessons! I love using this Monster Genetics Lab every single year! It has always…
Read MoreThe SECRET Slime Ingredient You’ve Never Heard Of
Slime is ALL. THE . RAGE and rightfully so – I mean even as an adult I love getting my hands dirty and coming up with all kinds of combinations! Most recently on a day off I worked up some magic with my own children and dove deep into the science behind slime with my…
Read MoreWhy you NEED Science Solvers in your classroom!
Have you ever wondered how am I going to get through teaching energy?! I have been there! This seemed like the toughest concept that I saved to teach last to my 5th graders! I had trouble understanding the level of material myself…while I can’t fully help with that I can show you what did work…
Read MoreSlime Science
Since I’m not in a school this year I have still been involved with kids even in my community. Recently I held a slime science event at a local community center for parents to drop off kids and shop/wrap presents if need be. We had four different slime stations and lots of learning and fun…
Read MoreSound Pages and Ideas
We love studying sound! Here are some resources I found especially helpful and fun to use: These sound cards -we worked in research pairs to present on these topics! this link talks about the amazing things sound can do!! The flocabulary video is AMAZING!!!! A fantastic resource. This website has great test sounds for sound…
Read MoreWe eat IRON?!
We eat IRON?! My students loved this experiment and it could be used for a variety of principles. We used it while talking about separating mixtures using magnetism. It could easily be tied to elements, compounds, mixtures and solutions (and separating them) or even digesting food and how the body needs and processes iron! We…
Read MoreLearning Events – Engagement made easy!
I am loving transforming my classroom to enhance student learning! It has been such a creative outlet for me as well as my kiddos! I want to share some reasons why these learning events are so fun and how they are tied to content. 1. Plan around what your kids love!…
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