One of my most popular FREE resources is designed to teach about static electricity .  It is written for middle school but would be appropri...

Making Potential and Kinetic Energy Engaging! One of my most popular resources to designed to teach about potential and kinetic energy , b...

Making Weathering and Erosion More Student-Centered Weathering and erosion is one of my favorite topics to teach! I get excited every y...

As Next Generation Science Standards come out, and start to be utilized in more states, and more classrooms, you may be wondering how this a...

Free, Engaging NGSS Aligned High Tech Resource For You If you are looking for a new and different, technology-rich activity to introduc...

Citizen Science: Real Scientists in the Classroom Many times we try to do an activity with our students that we think is ‘fun’ or ‘engaging...

Great Science Experiments and Demonstrations One of the fun things about being a science teacher is being able to do hands-on activities a...

I Know You Need Free Resources When I look out the window all I see is SNOW! Day after day.  We have had a couple of snow days recently, an...

Strategies for Teaching Ecological Succession I was asked to write about how I teach ecological succession.  Ecological succession is a si...

Science class is a great place for hands-on activities, but there are some activities that you can't do hands-on.  Its great to be...

5 Easy Steps to Add Inquiry into your Science Labs  We all know that there is a big push to increase inquiry in our science labs, but thi...

Easy to implement differentiation strategy In any given class, at least in the district where I work, there is a huge range of abilit...

One of the more difficult classroom management aspects of being a new science teacher is learning to manage time in the science classroo...

Just a quick link as we start the year to my top 3 blog posts of the past year.  3. Using Google Forms  in the classroom  2. My second mo...

Every year as Halloween approaches, I think about what I want class to look like on that day.  There is no denying that its not a regula...

Are you feeling overwhelmed by multiple preps, particularly multiple labs to set up?  That can be mind boggling at first, but it is manage...