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Dehydration Synthesis and Hydrolysis with Pop Beads!
How do you teach dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis? These two terms can be really hard for students to understand and visualize. Some students struggle with “monomer” and “polymer” too. That’s why when I teach this lesson, I break out the pop beads! Why I love the pop beads: 1. They have an orientation. One […]
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Weekly Lab Setup Tips for New Science Teachers
I know as a new teacher there is a lot to take in. Class schedules (rotating!), a teacher planner, 100+ names and faces to memorize, bulletin boards to set up, class routines to decide on, and more. But a new SCIENCE teacher?! If you’re a new science teacher, you’ve got to figure out a whole […]
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Teacher Microscope Recommendation for Biology Teachers
(This post contains affiliate links to Amazon, because many readers have asked me where I got my microscope, and if I’m going to link to Amazon to show them, I may as well use an affiliate. I never recommend products that I don’t love – hence the scarcity of affiliate links on my blog.) […]
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Scope and Sequence in my Biology Class
Recently, blog readers have asked me to write about scope and sequence in my biology class. Determining the best scope and sequence for your students is very difficult as a new teacher. It’s so hard to know! What do I cover? When? And to what depth? I have found that my own personal preferred scope […]
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Secondary Science Back to School Giveaway
School is starting up again soon and the secondary science teachers on Teachers Pay Teachers have your back! To kick off this school year, we are giving away resources and individual store shopping sprees. There are TWO rafflecopters below where you can win prizes. Both raffles end on August 12th at midnight. The […]
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Back to School Sale!
Teachers Pay Teachers is having their Back to School Sitewide Sale and everything in my store will be up to 28% off. This includes my already-moneysaving bundles. I think about teaching and how to teach better a lot. I took a break from teaching for a few years to raise my small kids and […]