Making Group Work Easier for Everyone

  This Teacher Tip comes to us from Donna in North Logan, Utah. How to put students into groups fairly: Use mini accents or calendar cut outs to group students for activities or experiments. They usually come with six designs per package of 36. You can have the students pick an...
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Incorporate Exercize into Exam Review

Incorporate Exercize into Exam Review

  This Teacher Tip comes to us from Ann in Maryland. Use hand held GPS units to review for your final exam or end of the quarter assessment. Set up Tupperware caches out in your schoolyard with a question in each box. My students run from station to station and they love reviewing...
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Video in the Classroom: Testimonial

Video in the Classroom: Testimonial

Check out this review of Carolina Science Online from Melissa in North Carolina. Click here for a FREE 30-day trial of Twig Videos and Learnetic. Learnetics is an engaging tool that I enjoy using to teach the more abstract concepts that we are so often faced with teaching our science...
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Teacher Tip: ‘Sweet’ Lesson

Teacher Tip: ‘Sweet’ Lesson

This Teacher Tip comes to us from Kym in Washington. A favorite lab is “measuring” CO2 production from yeast and some sweetener. The measuring tool is often a balloon. Instead- borrow from the chemistry folks- gas collecting tubes- ours are graduated. Yeast, sweetener, warm...
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DYI Protein Synthesis

This Teacher Tip comes to us from Peggy in Kentucky. I make my own kits to teach protein synthesis to middle school students. Each pair of students will then work with one kit. 1. I cut large nuclei out of neon poster boards and indicate pores in the membrane by cutting notches at...
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Stoplight System for Group Work

Stoplight System for Group Work

This Teacher Tip comes to us from Daneice Foster in Oklahoma. It can be difficult to recognize when different groups in your lab need help. Use a tabletop support stand, 1 med size paper clamp and 3 pieces of paper (red, yellow and green) Red implies that a group needs help immediately;...
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