How do you avoid getting sick as a teacher when sick is all around you? It’s hard to stay healthy as a teacher. We’re constantly around kids who are sick. Kids who borrow our pencil or breathe on us when we come over to help them. We’re in an enclosed space for hours at a […]
Cool Activities to Teach Friction to High School Students
Make friction fun using these simple activities you can do in your class with no prep and very few supplies. Activity #1: Interleaving a pair of phone books. I’m sure you’ve seen this demonstration where someone puts one page of one phone book down then the first page of the second on top of it. […]
How to Teach The Immune System – Your Body’s Defense
What is the immune system? The immune system is a collection of organs, tissues, and cells within an organism’s body that protects it from bacteria, viruses, parasites, and other things that would otherwise get you sick. What are the different parts of the immune system? The immune system has a special transport network called the […]
10 Teacher’s Tips for Making Teenage Students Excited In the Classroom
It is infamously difficult to get and keep the attention of teenage students. If you’re struggling to get your students excited, check out these 10 tips. There’s a valid reason for the famous, “Bueller, Bueller, …Bueller,” quote is used as often as it is. The reason: teenagers are not easy to entertain, let alone engage. […]
Solar and Lunar Eclipses
Eclipses occur when one celestial body is shadowed by another. On Earth, we observe two types of eclipses: solar and lunar. Solar eclipses occur when the moon passes precisely between the Sun and the Earth and all three bodies are aligned. The moon casts its shadow on the Earth and blocks the Sun from our […]
How to master the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and impress your admin
If you’re reading this, odds are good that the idea of implementing the NGSS in your classroom is enough to keep you up at night. For many teachers, the task of updating their curriculum to reflect the new standards can appear extremely daunting. If you are one of these teachers, I say to you, “fret […]
The Science Teacher Reading List
Here is a list of books teachers have mentioned that are good reads for their classroom. Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) by Homer Hickam The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn […]