Lesson Plans, Pedagogy and Differentiation
Looking for a fun way to bring evolution and adaptation to life in your science class? This Getting Nerdy fan-favorite is one of the BEST online games to demonstrate natural selection in action. Choose the initial traits for your population of adorable, sausage-bodied...
Dissection and Lab, Lesson Plans, Pedagogy and Differentiation
Want to incorporate more outdoor science lessons in your urban classroom but lack the green space to do it? These 15 tips will have you and your kiddos slapping on the sunscreen and your sunglasses and heading into the great outdoors in no time! Use what...
Lesson Plans
“I love the ecology unit! Thanks for all your hard work! Do you have any basic answers for the unit 3 symbiosis want ad assignment (like what type of relationship each group has)? This would help so much when it comes to grading them so I don’t have to...
Lesson Plans, Pedagogy and Differentiation
Whether you are homeschooling, distance learning, online or at-home learning, we want to make sure we are supporting our educators and parents however we can. We’ve had tons of questions regarding how you can use the products you’ve already purchased from...
Classroom Management, Lesson Plans, Pedagogy and Differentiation
Wanna walk a day in our shoes? Here’s what a day in the life of a Nerdy science teacher (aka Mel and Gerdy) looks like: 7:00 am: Arrive at school. Gather materials to be copied if needed. We loved raiding the copy machine for as long as we could each morning in...
Lesson Plans, Pedagogy and Differentiation
There have been SO many requests for us to detail out our year-long agenda – what order we teach lessons, how long a unit takes to teach, how much content is delivered, etc. These are all great questions, and we are so happy to be able to share with you our...
Lesson Plans
We have been playing around with different ways of “Getting Nerdy” online. The main avenues teachers use to search for new ideas, teaching tips, and trending educational trends tends to be through the standard sites of Pinterest, Instagram,...
Lesson Plans
There ain’t no bones about it – humans would be a big pile of muscles, skin and gooey organs if it weren’t for the skeletal system! We love teaching our human body unit from the inside out – skin, muscles, bones, and all the other systems that...
Dissection and Lab, Lesson Plans
When you’re teaching the human body systems, it can be fun to start from the outside and work your way in. After completing the Integumentary system, we liked to move in another layer, the muscular system. Here’s how we taught this lesson in our...
Dissection and Lab, Lesson Plans
We love teaching our Human Body Unit from the inside out. Skin, muscles, bones, and all the other systems that work in-between. Before we begin though, we like to introduce important vocabulary using prefixes/suffixes/root words used in the medical community...
Dissection and Lab, Lesson Plans
Ya…they’re kinda slimy. They can be a bit smelly too. No matter how you slice ’em, kids love to explore the earthworm! These invertebrates make for some of the easiest dissections and they are great way to introduce comparative anatomy when...
Dissection and Lab, Lesson Plans
Dissections are a great way to introduce comparative anatomy to middle and high school students. They love to see relationships between their bodies and other organisms and they are always blown away when you tell them that so many animals and humans are similar in...
Lesson Plans, Pedagogy and Differentiation
Task Cards… woohoo! They are the new go-to teaching tool for teachers and what most don’t know is that they make superb secondary study tools, too! They are versatile, easy print-and-go resources, and they can serve so many uses in your classroom. Here...
Classroom Management, Dissection and Lab, Lesson Plans, Pedagogy and Differentiation
Differentiation… every instructional coach, administrator and professional development seminar’s favorite buzz word. It can be overwhelming, but it does’t necessarily mean that you need to call the school nurse for the defibrillator. Do these...
Dissection and Lab, Lesson Plans, Pedagogy and Differentiation
Knock knock… Who’s there? Egg cell… Egg cell who? Egg-Cell-ent ideas for teaching cells! If you’re looking for some ideas to “cell” kids on your cells unit, these tips might be just what “eu” need… 🙂 Graphic...
Dissection and Lab, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson Plans
At the start of the school year it can be a daunting task to reteach the scientific method to your students, especially considering they were just in school two months ago! To help you combat scientific method regression, we’ve gathered 10 easy ways to teach the...
Dissection and Lab, Lesson Plans
Your students may have a difficult time understanding how science class relates to what scientists do in the real world. What do scientists do to learn about their surroundings? How do scientists gather data and determine which data is reliable? A great way to kick...
Dissection and Lab, Lesson Plans
Once you have introductions and classroom logistics out of the way, it’s time to get down to the real meat of your lessons: LABS. But wait! How are you going to ensure that your budding scientists are aware of the dangers that lurk in the science laboratory?...
Interactive Notebooks, Lesson Plans
Every year, before we start digging into the topic of cells, we want students to be able to tell the difference between living and non-living things. You wouldn’t believe how many students think water is alive – but that’s a great starting point. At the end of this...
Dissection and Lab, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson Plans
It’s the first thing kids learn when they enter into their very first science class – the backbone of all scientific inquiry – the scientific method. You’d think that students would know and understand how to implement those six little steps...
Interactive Notebooks, Lesson Plans
We are fascinated by cells! But, “cells” might be one of the most difficult life science topics for middle school students. Even though most students learn about cells in elementary school, many middle schoolers don’t remember much about them. The idea of a cell, and...
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We know the standards have changed. They change, what seems now, almost EVERY year. The newest change we’ve seen happening is the integration of the scientific method into the other disciplines of life science, and of course this makes total sense. BUT, when your kids...
Lesson Plans, Pedagogy and Differentiation
Over the 12+ years that we have been teaching, we spent a lot of time searching for engaging websites to use in our lessons. We love to incorporate games, online labs, videos, and any other site that is both educational AND fun for our students (and us too!). Not to...
Interactive Notebooks, Lesson Plans
Welcome to the first week, teach! Ready to start the new semester? Wait a minute… who ARE these people? ALL new faces and ALL new names, it’s a wonder we can remember our own in those first few days of awkward introductions and mispronunciations....
Dissection and Lab, Lesson Plans
Whether you’re just starting the year or you’re already at the home stretch, discussing scientific principles is important in any science classroom. Grab students’ attention and maintain their interest throughout your class using this FREE Science...
