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I use the latest in brain science research to create lessons that are engaging for students and easy for teachers.
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What is the Difference Between the Asthenosphere and the Lithosphere?
The lithosphere and asthenosphere are both mechanical layers of the Earth. The layers of the Earth can be organized by composition (what...
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What are Landslides?
Landslides change the surface of the Earth. They happen when rocks, soil, and anything else on the ground falls down a slope after...
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Learning About How Volcanoes Form
Volcanoes are mountains formed around vents or fissures in the Earth’s crust that release lava, ash, rock, and gases. When volcanoes...
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Learning About Pangaea the Supercontinent
Designua /Shutterstock.com For most of human history, people believed that the continents didn’t move. However, as technology improved,...
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How did Scientists Discover Seafloor Spreading?
Seafloor spreading happens at divergent plate boundaries under the ocean. As hot rocks rise in convection currents within the...
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Everything You Need to Know About Minerals
What are Minerals? Minerals are naturally occurring, inorganic, solids with definite chemical compositions and ordered internal...
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What is the Evidence for the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
The theory of plate tectonics is new, but some of the evidence for the theory of plate tectonics dates back millions if not billions of...
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What is the Difference Between Genetics and Heredity?
Science is all about precision. Two things may seem the same at first glance, but we see that nuance makes them different when we dive...
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Learning about the Theory of Continental Drift
An Overview of the Theory of Continental Drift The theory of continental drift argues that Earth’s continents are moving. It claims that...
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What are the Three Parts of an Atom?
Don’t you love the alliteration of learning all about atoms? If you are teaching middle school science, then your students need to know...
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What are the Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter?
Lukas Kovarik/Shutterstock.com Everything around you is matter. Matter is all of the stuff in the universe. It has mass and takes up...
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Learning About the Law of Conservation of Mass
The law of conservation of mass describes the phenomenon that scientists have observed that mass stays constant throughout a chemical...
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What are the Four States of Matter?
What is Matter? Everything around us is made up of matter. Matter is made up of atoms and molecules. How the atoms or molecules move...
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How to Understand the Modern Periodic Table
If we want to understand the modern periodic table, we have to understand matter first. Matter and the Modern Periodic Table Everything...
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How to Teach About Electrons in Atoms
Students need to understand electrons to understand a ton of other science topics. For example, lightning happens when electrons in atoms...
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Isotopes of the Same Element Have Different Numbers of Neutrons
Isotope is one of those science vocabulary words that kids have to know, but it doesn’t need an entire unit. Students need to know that...
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How to Teach Molecules and Compounds
Science is vocabulary. Students need to know what science words mean so that they can understand scientific concepts. Molecule and...
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How to Teach Solutions and Mixtures
Science is all about organization. Our students need to learn the vocabulary of this organization to understand how scientists...
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How to Teach Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration
Most of understanding science is knowing the vocabulary words. I teach a lot of vocabulary in my digital science units, but sometimes I...
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Force Lesson Plans Based on Brain Science
Vecton/Shutterstock.com Force is a huge topic. That is one reason force lesson plans can be so overwhelming. Force covers everything...
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