I collapsed in my chair as the students filed out after their mitosis lab. I was exhausted! Students were using their scopes to identify and draw cells in different phases of mitosis. The problem was they couldn’t identify them and needed feedback for each cell. That meant that I was running from student to student answering the same question ……
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Four Easy Ways to Handle Make Up Work for Absent Students
This post contains affiliate links Does this sound familiar? Students from the class that just ended and the one coming up were all clustered around my desk. We were in the middle of flu season so many students had been absent. They all wanted to know what they had missed. “Where are the note sheets?” ” I didn’t understand this…
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How to Use Stations in High School Science Without Losing Your Sanity!
I was always pretty proud of the ways that I managed my high school science classroom. I had a good rapport with the kids for the most part (there’s always that ONE, right?) and I very seldom had any real problems other than the occasional chatty student. Then, about 12 years ago, my district decided to switch my biology course…
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5 Great Sources for Informational Text Topics
I love using informational text articles in my classes. For one thing, they’re an engaging way to teach science content. And by using them often you can work on students’ reading comprehension skills and vocabulary. But it’s not always easy to find interesting articles at the correct reading level. So I’ve put together a list of sites with interesting informational text…
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How to Use Informational Text Activities to Teach Science Content
I like to tell my students that learning biology is like learning another language. I wanted my classroom to be student-centered instead of a “sage on the stage” classroom. My belief is that the more students can develop their own learning the better they will understand it and the longer they will retain it. That’s why informational text activities play…
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