When it comes to lesson planning, you may be coming to the table with zero training in this, or you may be entirely sick of hearing about it. Particularly for

Frosty has been murdered! This half-life lab is a hands-on inquiry activity to teach chemistry students about radioactive dating.

I fuckin love this skeleton in my old Science teacher's classroom.

If you look on Pinterest you are sure to see a lack of science classroom decoration ideas. I want to share with you my...

Your first year teaching is going to be one of the hardest years of your career. I frequently went home near tears thinking “I just can’t do this. It is too hard.” But I promise you, it gets easier! I’m in my 10th year teaching and I spend a lot less time planning and preparing ... Read more

I am so lucky to teach at a school that provides a full hour of science instruction for our students every day, but I know that in many self contained classrooms science takes a back seat to math and reading. I think this is incredibly unfortunate because science is a part of literally EVERYTHING we…

Several years ago my district encouraged us to really start moving towards project-based learning in high school science especially - but really in every

Why do I love them so much? Because they love systems and I LOVE SYSTEMS. Even more than in my house, I LOVE having classroom systems. I think oftentimes we

Have you ever looked through your pacing guide and the middle school science topics that you need to teach and just said, I have no clue...

Happy August! We got home from our six day road trip last night, and now it’s time for me to buckle down and start thinking about BACK TO SCHOOL. Our first teacher work day is August 17th, so I’m less than two weeks away now… In honor of that, I thought I’d bring back “Teaching Tuesday”...Read More »