Category: science

Mother Goose Time: Christmas in July

leslie July 15, 2016 2 Comments
Holy Moly!!! Am I excited to share this with y'all today!!!  I am REALLY excited to share it with Sweet Pea, but we are going to wait until August for me to show her... You should feel VERY SPECIAL! :)So what is it?This is Mother Goose Time.A monthly box filled with daily activities based on a theme for that particular month.  This box that I purchased is for August and it is...

Go SPEED Racer: Exploring Speed

leslie February 22, 2013 2 Comments
Last year I wrote a post called Go Speed Racer... it's all about engaging students when beginning a unit on graphing and calculating speed.    Okay, so you have their attention, but how on earth can you really explore speed...from the fast to the slow or even better... stopped.  How is that graphed?  As I did the engage and watched my students hypothesize about the hare's...

Lab: What is Energy??

leslie January 30, 2013 3 Comments
I. LOVE. TEACHING.  Love it... Love it... love it.  I can't wait for tomorrow where my students get to become a newscast in the Amazon Rainforest; however, today I had such a great time teaching them about energy.  The best is peaking their interest.   As I have said before, I use the 5 E model when teaching science.  Today was our Engage and Explore lesson on forms...

LAB: It’s a Roller Coaster kinda World …

leslie January 25, 2013 2 Comments
It definitely was in my classroom today.  We built roller coasters to demonstrate our knowledge of potential and kinetic energy in science.I teach science using the 5 E's (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate)...it's perfect if I actually got to teach science each and everyday, but I don't.  I have to use an A/B schedule to teach science and social studies,...

Crunch Time…. Clock Partners

leslie August 16, 2012 4 Comments
Oh. My. Goodness.  Where did my summer go?  I am sitting here on the couch on my last day of summer.  Tomorrow I return for my first day of in-service.  Who starts in-service on a FRIDAY??  Who does THAT???  and more importantly... why did the school district to that to us?!?!  ugh....I know I sound like I am complaining.... well yes.... I am complaining but not...

Linky Party: Music In the Classroom….Nay or YAY!!!!

leslie May 26, 2012 6 Comments
YAY!!! I know yall know how much I like to search You Tube for school videos.... so I thought about making a little linky party for all those great finds all us teachers search high and low for.Let me tell yall a little secret... I am not a fan of rap, hip-hop, or much of today's music.  I grew up on the alternative radio of the '90's (love it), but I now listen to Texas Country and...

SNS: Rock Cycle Rap and Lab

leslie May 13, 2012 3 Comments
If you are a regular visitor to my blog, I am sure you know how much I love to use YouTube in the classroom.  This week I taught about the Rock Cycle (I love Earth Science), and played this song for my kids and printed out the lyrics. After we listened to it and had fun laughing and singing along (even during the 1st time it played), I gave them a sheet of the lyrics and went through each...

SNS: A Density Lab….Concerning the Earth

leslie April 21, 2012 0 Comments
It has been really nice covering Earth Science on Earth Day....wish I had gotten the chance to do something about Earth Day.  In my 6th grade class, we are going into more depth about the layers of the Earth and starting to understand plate tectonics. This week started with me showing them a hard-boiled egg, cracking it on the table, going over the cracks with a permanent marker and...

Have you seen THIS?!?!? Amazing!!

leslie April 18, 2012 5 Comments
So.... after a year of waiting....I finally received my 6th grade science TE textbook.  I received it last week.  It has been kinda tough trying to go in blind my first year teaching 6th grade science, but I also have to admit that this year has been soooooo refreshing as well.  I have taught from those "scripted" texts for several years in the past, and the district watched over...