Make a Heart Model with Recyclables!
Let’s make a heart model out of recyclable materials! As teachers, we’re always looking for fresh ways to help students understand complex ideas. The human heart, with all its chambers, valves, and blood flow, can be one of those tricky topics that’s hard for students to wrap their heads around. What better way to make learning the heart fun, interactive, and memorable?
Seven Ways to Ensure that Lab Clean Up Runs Smoothly
Lab clean up, just like any other task or procedure, must be carefully planned by the teacher and then taught to students. In this blog post, we’ll share seven practical tips and strategies to make lab clean-up not only efficient but also engaging and enjoyable!
Project Based Learning Challenge: Design and Test Pumpkin Helmets
A super fun project based learning activity where students take on a creative engineering challenge by designing and constructing their own pumpkin helmets using recyclable materials. Each student or group will be provided with a variety of materials such as cardboard, plastic bottles, foam, and tape. They will think critically about the properties of these items and put them together to create a helmet that can effectively protect a pumpkin, which will serve as the “head,” during a drop test.
Halloween Activities for High School Science with Plastic Skeletons
If you’re looking for creative halloween activities for high school science, you’re in for a treat (haha). From sculpting muscle groups on miniature skeletons to investigating forensic science with mock crime scenes, these activities not only make learning fun but also deepen your students’ understanding of human anatomy.
Focus Students with the Mini Research Project
A mini research project can help students focus on the most important central theme of the lesson. The goal of the mini research project is for students to invest in learning about a new topic, and then sharing with their classmates what they learned. The project is meant to support and reinforce a specific central idea of the lesson or unit. I suppose this is true of any research project, but as you will see, the mini research project has some unique characteristics that make it a great choice!
Turn Any Website into an Interactive Virtual Lesson
With one simple Chrome Extension, you can easily turn any website into an interactive virtual lesson- in minutes! Highlight text, insert questions, initiate whole class discussion, include videos and even embed Google Forms! It is like a miracle, and I am hooked. The Chrome Extension is called Insert Learning. This post will walk you through how […]