Students love YouTube. As educators, we need to embrace this! The great part is that YouTube has a ridiculous amount of amazing science and math content! I recognized this a few years ago and leaned in to develop one of my most low-prep assignments, and it has led to high engagement and some serious authentic …
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Anyone else remember being SO EXCITED in school when your teacher rolled the TV into the room? Part of my philosophy of education involves ensuring that my classes are full of variety, and so I am a big fan of using high quality science movies in the classroom. And between PBS, BBC, and National Geographic …
I’ve been teaching since 2010, so I’ve had a lot of “first days of school”. Hands down, what I’m about to outline is my favorite activity to use on the first day of a high school science class. My goal on the first day of school is to make students get to know me a …
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I know it’s summer, but I also know that lots of teachers immediately start thinking about how they want to set themselves up for next year. I’ve lived and taught in a lot of different places, and it’s given me some perspective on things that are necessary and things that aren’t. Any time that I’ve …
If you appreciate long term engagement and student-directed learning, you NEED to try this. When I first started teaching there were a couple of units in my biology and chemistry courses that were not fresh in my mind from university. In biology, it was definitely the metabolism unit. I vaguely remembered that glycolysis existed but …
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I love review classes. I think it’s because I like helping kids jog their memories and making them realize that they know more than they think they do. It’s satisfying! And of all the different ways I like to review, my #1, top-notch, best of all time, favorite review activity is the vocabulary chain. I …
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