Handouts are available below Big Idea Today, I want to share the 3 things I’m doing to teach CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) this year. Long story short, the 3 things that are working for me in teaching CER is scaffolding using prompts and sentence starters, applying these prompts through everyday, informal examples, and…
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Handouts are available below Big Idea Here’s a lab I’ve done with my students for the past 2 years that not only has them practice using a balance to find the mass of objects, it also gets students to practice lab skills like data analysis and drawing conclusions using the CER (Claim Evidence and Reasoning)…
Handouts are available below Big Idea It’s important to build a good culture with our colleagues in our workplace because a good culture not only makes our work more enjoyable but it also helps us be more productive together. For example, whenever there’s a change in how we do things at school – whether…
Handouts are available below Big Idea Today, I want to share this resource with you – an activity I’ve been using every year for the past 18 years of teaching. It’s an activity that teaches students about Mendeleev’s Periodic table. If you’re looking for an activity that teaches students that elements on the periodic…
Handouts are available below Big Idea How many science teachers are guilty of asking this question: what is science at some point – probably at the beginning – of the school year? I know I am. There’s nothing wrong with that question. But, what if we could ask the same question in a different way…
Handouts are available below Big Idea Today, I’m talking about the one thing we don’t talk about as teachers – the one thing we should be talking about. And, I’m sharing what I did with my department to get us started talking about this one thing. This is all inspired by a book I am…
Handouts are available at the bottom of this post in the Resources section. Big Idea A REAL Science Challenge Question is a quick and fun way to have students practice problem solving and apply science and engineering practices (SEPs) and Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs). I like REAL Science Challenge Questions because they… are not based…
Handouts are available at the bottom of this post in the Resources section. Big Idea Can we do something with coffee grounds besides composting it? When I first started brewing everyday at school, I dumped the coffee grounds into a beaker. I didn’t think much of it. But then, as the beaker…
Handouts are available at the bottom of this post in the Resources section. Big Idea A REAL Science Challenge Question is a quick and fun way to have students practice problem solving and apply science and engineering practices (SEPs) and Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs). I like REAL Science Challenge Questions because they… are not based…
Handouts are available at the bottom of this post in the Resources section. Big Idea The perihelion is the point at which earth is closest to the sun. This is due to the fact that the Earth’s orbit is elliptical (ie. oval). At the perihelion: The earth is 2% closer to the sun…
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