Journey North
Journey North is a great website to connect science to the real world. Students can track monarch butterfly migrations, track Spring moving across the globe, watch the seasons change across the world, and much more.
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Drawing ResourcesAlthough it may not give students practice on their scientific drawings, this is a quick guide to help students get practice drawing big, accurate, colorful, and detailed drawings.
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Kahoot!Kahoot! is a way to create classroom games that allow students to be a little competitive while also allowing you to check their understanding on topics you are discussing.
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Websites to Create Quick Formative Assessments
Quick and easy formative assessments are a perfect way to check student understanding during a lesson to see if they need more instruction or if you need to reteach the topic.
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Review Activites
JeopardyThis is a great class review game.
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QuizletThis could be utilized as a class, but would most likely be better for individual use.
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Remind 101Create a way to remind students of important things like yearbook money, permission slips, and anything else out of the ordinary they may forget.
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Shadow PuppetThis app allows you to vocally annotate a photo or slideshow of photos. If you were trying to give your students feedback on their work, this app would be very useful.
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Indiana Science InitiativeThe Indiana Science Initiative (ISI) is a program designed for grades K-8 that has developed model lessons and provides materials and assessments to accompany those lessons for teachers to use in their classrooms. The curriculum is research based and is geared towards encouraging student inquiry, problem solving, and hands-on learning.
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Professional Development Opportunities
National Science Teachers Association -
These conferences focus on up to date research, content, and teaching practices to help teachers effectively instruct their students. There are multiple locations around the United States for you to attend and further develop your skills.
Smithsonian Science Education Center-
Professional development centered around teaching science through an inquiry based platform to improve student learning. It also offers science content training as well.
FUTURE RESOURCES
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Weebly!Create a classroom website, create a website for a project, have each student create an About Me page, the options are endless as to how you can use this site in a classroom.
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STEM Toys
Fat Brain ToysHaving toys in the classroom to keep students engaged and learning is a great way to manage behavior while also keeping their brain working, engaged, and learning. However, you don't want to spend an incredible amount of your budget on these toys, so many of these toys are $20 or less.
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Hand BoilerThe hand boiler is a wonderful toy to have in your class for students to play with when they finish early. Students have the opportunity to explore what is causing the liquid to move the way it does. Eventually, they will reason through the idea that the liquid inside has a much lower boiling point than water and that the heat coming from their hands is enough to bring the liquid inside to a boil.
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Switch PitchThe Switch Pitch turns inside out when you throw it in the air.
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STEM Education CoalitionThe coalition is designed based on the 2010 science standards. It includes preprepared lessons that teachers can use in their classrooms.
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SLED Resources at STEMHubSLED is a resource teachers can use to find resources to support engineering in the classroom. It focuses on inquiry-based lessons and improving science education in grades 3-6.
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Showing Videos in the Classroom
View Pure
More times than not, if you are showing a video on YouTube, there will be an inappropriate or distracting "suggested video" on the right hand side. Although it is not incredibly inappropriate, while watching this video about skills, there is a very distracting video of someone with a drill to their head surrounded by videos actually related to this skittle activity. Some students may not be able to focus on the video you want them to watch because they are curious about the one that was suggested. However, Video Pure allows you to stream these useful YouTube videos without any type of distraction surrounding it.
Teacher TubeSchool appropriate videos posted by educators.
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60 Tools for Formative Assessment
AIMSAIMS gives teachers access to many resources including books and lesson plans with the idea of integrated math and science lessons.
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Magnificent Microworld Adventures (Grades 6-9)
Mostly Magnets (Grades 3-6)
Shadow PuppetShadow Puppet is a way that you can communicate to students through video. You can voice over powerpoints as well as provide feedback on projects. Students can also use this app when giving a presentation like we did in the By Golly By Gum activity. This is a natural way to include ELA because you can ask students to plan and script exactly what they are going to say in their virtual presentation.
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NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) Resources
Picture Perfect ScienceThe NSTA has produced these series of books based on the 5E lesson design. They look to incorporate childrens literature to enhance a students understanding of a topic.
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Assessment ProbesAssesment probes are a fun and unique way to determine student understanding of a topic. NSTA has produced two of these books
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