We took a quiz in physical science on Monday over predicting the products of a reaction. Since Thanksgiving Break started Wednesday, I definitely did not want to start a new section on Tuesday. I had seen an idea on twitter the week AFTER we finished discussing ionic vs. covalent compounds. I decided to save the …
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I created this predicting products review game to give my physical science students some much needed practice predicting the products of chemical reactions. We combined this review with a bit of basketball to make a fun review game. My physical science students have been working on predicting products of reactions. For our first day of …
Today, I want to share a poster I recently made for my physical science class. We’ve been writing chemical reactions, and my students need a bit of a reminder about which elements exist diatomically. When I took chemistry in high school, my teacher taught us the BrINClHOF mnemonic device. I guess it’s catchy because it’s …
I created this classifying types of reactions card sort activity for my physical science students. I thought I should share it with you as well! My physical science students are in the midst of their chemical reactions unit. So far, we’ve balanced chemical equations and translated equations in words to symbols (and balanced them, too). …
I gave my students a chart for prefixes for naming covalent compounds in their notebook, but I decided that we’re going to be using these prefixes enough that it warrants a poster for quick reference. Here’s what I came up with for my prefixes poster. I designed this poster to print on 11 x 17 …
Earlier this year, I attended an OERB science workshop. I left with over $1100 in supplies and lots of ideas to use in my physical science class. You can read more about my workshop experience here. One of the tools I was given to use with my students was a set of hydrocarbon modeling kits …
I’m not totally happy with my notes for electron dot diagrams, so I’m not posting the front of this foldable. My description is too wordy, and I’m not sure it totally summarized the process of creating an electron dot diagram. Also, I learned from reading lots of other teachers describe the process online that teachers …
Short and sweet post today to let you know about an awesome chemistry gossip activity I found for FREE on TpT. I gave it to my physical science students as a “let’s get back in work mode since we haven’t seen each other for five days as a result of fall break” activity. It only …
I am so excited about these paper plate bohr models! One of our main goals in physical science is to recognize patterns in the periodic table based on valence electrons. Before we can jump to talking about valence electrons, we first need to just learn about the placement of electrons in the atom. After …
What do you do when a chunk of your physical science class is away at the state softball tournament, it’s Friday, and you just finished a chapter but don’t want to start the new chapter until Monday? You decide to give your students a piece of sidewalk chalk and a chalk messages measurement lab to …
I recently assigned my physical science students a “Periodic Table License Plate Project.” This is not an original idea. I found it posted online here. Of course, I had to retype the instructions myself. As soon as I gave my students the instructions to the project, they began eagerly searching their periodic tables to see …
There isn’t much to this chemical symbol foldable, but there’s something about it that just makes me so happy. I wanted to come up with a quick reminder for my students about how to write a chemical symbol that identifies the specific isotope we are looking at. Here’s what our completed interactive notebook page ended …
Since my physical science students are working through their first chemistry unit, I created a foldable to summarize how to read the periodic table. The inside of the foldable contains a periodic table I found online. When I went to look for a periodic table online, I was really frustrated that I couldn’t find exactly …
I created this Periodic Table War game to give my students more practice becoming familiar with the periodic table. It’s based off of the card game, War, which is a common choice of card game to adapt for various math concepts. You can play logarithm war, trig war, radian and degree war, linear war, or …
This year, I’m teaching two courses for the first time. These courses are physical science and math concepts, a class for 9th graders who are not yet ready for Algebra 1. These new-to-me classes are stretching me and my teaching in a very cool way. I’m being exposed to new teaching techniques, and I’m able …
I want to share a subatomic particles foldable I created for my physical science students to glue in their interactive notebooks. My physical science students are starting our first unit that addresses the periodic table. I decided to kick off this unit by reviewing the three types of subatomic particles. This is a review for …
To practice some real-life unit converting, I had my students go out in the lobby and measure their speed doing various activities such as walking, running, hopping, or skipping. Then, we converted our speed to miles/hour and compared our speed to the speeds of various animals. Here’s the animal speed chart I gave my students: …
To wrap up my physical science students’ “I can take accurate measurements” skill, I decided to use the “Mini Metric Olympics” Activity from AIMS. The original activity was published in Math + Science: A Solution. This book is available to check out from the Internet Archive’s Online Lending Library for free for an hour at …
I assigned this significant figures poster project to my physical science students. The goal of this project was to get them used to changing between scientific notation and standard notation and to practice rounding numbers so that they have a certain number of significant figures. Students were told to choose a city, state, or country …
My physical science students really enjoyed this Hit the Target Lab. It’s my first time teaching physical science, and I’m learning so much every day. When I typed up this mini-lab sheet, I thought we would be able to calculate the error and percent error. I didn’t think through this very well because my students …
I created these arithmetic with significant figures task cards for my physical science students to work through as part of a collection of five significant figures stations activities. I called these “task cards,” but an more appropriate name would be “flash cards.” There are ten arithmetic problems on the front of the cards and ten …
I created this deck of significant figures ordering cards as part of my collection of five stations activities for practicing significant figures in physical science. This activity features fifteen cards. Each card has a number that has anywhere from one to five significant figures. Students didn’t know this, but there are three cards with one …
This significant figures looping cards activity was the first of 5 activities I prepared for a set of significant figures stations. I found these looping cards online on TES (link no longer active). I changed the font, edited the table so each card would be the exact same size, and modified the wording of a …
I created these significant figures stations activities for my physical science students to work through as they practice significant figures. This was my first time ever using stations where different students were doing different activities at the same time. It was great and entirely chaotic! I set up 5 stations for my students to work …
Recently, I had my physical science students work through a series of five stations that had them practicing various aspects of working with significant figures. One of the stations instructed them to create two truths and a lie about significant figures on a sheet of construction paper. I thought I would share what some …