A Fun Valentine's Day Chemical Bonding Card Game for Your Science Class: Make Em’ Bond (Love Bonds Version)
How to play Valentine's themed card game for Ionic and Covalent bonding
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Organize Your Classroom: 6 Must-Have Management Forms and Printables for Your Teacher Binder
Boost teacher organization with these 6 essential classroom templates for your teacher binder. Save time and streamline your planning!
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How I use an "Escape Room" to get my students learning about the elements in the Periodic Table
Students learn about the physical properties of the elements in the periodic table, using an escape Room.
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Top 3 Resources for Teaching States of Matter and Separating Mixtures
Enhance your chemistry lessons with engaging resources on states of matter and separating mixtures.
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How to Teach Elements, Compounds and Mixtures Visually
This post outlines how Johnstone's Chemistry Triangle can be used to teach elements, compounds and mixtures using particle models.
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Mastering Exit Tickets: The Ultimate Guide to Effective Formative Assessment and Feedback
Design and categorize your exit slips to improve your formative assessment strategy.
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Using the Jigsaw Strategy to Teach Trends in the Periodic Table
The Jigsaw Strategy is a collaborative learning strategy that works well for teaching Trends in the Periodic table.
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Top 3 Science Concepts for a successful school year
A few activities you may(or may not) have thought of for introducing science this school year.
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Play Card Games to teach Ionic Bonding and Chemical Formulae
Implement Game-Based Learning to Develop Student's Conceptual understanding of Chemical Formula
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How to Teach Mole Calculations to Students who hate Formulas
There are some students who do not like dealing with formulas or symbols it is best to teach students using the unitary method.
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3 Reasons You Should not Teach Ionic Bonding as Electron Transfer
Research shows that teaching ionic bonding as electron transfer leads to a number of chemical misconceptions.
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Evidence-Based Methods for teaching Balancing Equations
In this post, you will learn the best methods for teaching balancing chemical equations to high school students based on evidence .
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How to Teach Atomic Structure and Electronic Configuration remotely using Google Jamboard
In this post, I explain how I sequence my teaching of atomic structure and electronic configuration using Google Jamboard.
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4 Mistakes we make when Teaching the Scientific Method
The Scientific Method is a fundamental topic for our science students, but there are mistakes we make year...here are four!
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Guidelines for Teaching Lab Safety
Teaching students about lab safety goes beyond just lab safety rules.
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What You Should be doing before Writing your Lesson Plan
Make your lesson planning more efficient by doing this before you actually being planning!
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My First Year as a New Chemistry Teacher: How I Nearly Quit
How I nearly quit my first teaching job and the lessons I learned
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Crafting the Perfect Lesson Plan for Science: A Guide to Maximizing Student Learning Outcomes
Instantly upgrade your lesson plan with these research supported steps to creating engaging science lessons.
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