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Share your best hands-on lessons and teaching ideas with your fellow teachers!

Share your best hands-on lessons and teaching ideas with your fellow teachers!

The guiding mission behind MyScienceBox is that teachers should have free access to the best hands-on, classroom tested, science lessons. Every time science teachers introduce new content into their repertoire, they should not be required to reinvent the wheel by designing new activities, scaffolding lessons, and creating new assessment materials that hundreds of teachers elsewhere have done. So add your ideas to the site and open your own teaching boxes to teachers everywhere! It's easy!

When I was little,I heard about Sir Issac Newton's math.

Now this math is harder but simple.

1:34->5<=(31)

 

 2:<<<<<<<<<<(10)

 

 3:34+23>=(56)

 

 

>=1 less <=1 more

While I was reading The Magic School Bus,they went inside a cloud. Because this is not a field trip, there should be no driving into clouds :). But in Inside a Hurricane, They make a water cycle experiment.

Materials:    Oven mitten,Kettle,Ice,Strainer,Water

Experiment:

1. Put water in kettle.
2. Turn on the stove.
3. As the steam comes up, put ice in strainer.
4. Open top of kettle.

Watch as the water moves around.                                                                    

When I suddenly fall ill, or otherwise don't want to take 10 hours to plan a sub lesson, I usually go online to http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ and plug in some vocab words for some puzzles (they have some pre-made banks of words also!)

I make four puzzles using the exact same list of words. I usually start them with the word search (even non-readers can do this!) then go on to word scramble, then crossword. This because they need to know the words pretty well by the time they get to the crossword - also, the word search has the word bank on it.

I have attached my rubric, and two worksheets for my sex ed project. In our library, we have blank papers To help the students with MLA format - I have attached samples of those was well. I am sure there are a few things that need explaining, but I can't think of them now, so please email me or add comments if you have questions, or post your version of it!

Thanks!

Christina Green

I used this to show my students what happens during menstruation. I have them fill out where the flow is, when ovulation happens, when the lining begins to shed, and when are the prime times to have sex for fertilization (or the prime times to avoid sex!) 

I included readings about what happens during menstrual cycles. 

Summary

In this unit designed by high school teacher Kim Miyasaki, students discover that all physical objects are part of an interactive system mediated by forces, which are governed by Newton’s laws. ...

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