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3 Essential (digital) resources for Teaching Matter and Separating Mixtures

Here are three activities that I use with Google slides ᵀᴹ to engage students with matter, mixtures and changing states.

How to Teach Elements, Compounds and Mixtures Visually

This post outlines how Johnstone's Chemistry Triangle can be used to teach elements, compounds and mixtures using particle models.

How Exit Tickets can Transform your Teaching (if used correctly)

Design and categorize your exit slips to improve your formative assessment strategy.

Top 3 Concepts to Cover in Science for a successful school year

A few activities you may(or may not) have thought of for introducing science this school year.

Play Card Games to teach Ionic Bonding and Chemical Formulae

Implement Game-Based Learning to Develop Student's Conceptual understanding of Chemical Formula

3 Non-Boring Activities for Teaching Lab Safety that your students will love

Learn Three engaging activities that you can use to teach your science lab safety this school year.

How to Teach Mole Calculations to Students who hate Formulas

There are some students who do not like dealing with formulas or symbols it is best to teach students using the unitary method.

Evidence-Based Methods for teaching Balancing Equations

In this post, you will learn the best methods for teaching balancing chemical equations to high school students based on evidence .

What You Should be doing before Writing your Lesson Plan

Make your lesson planning more efficient by doing this before you actually being planning!

5 Mistakes I Made as a New Teacher and how you can avoid them

I think it would be appropriate for my first blog post ever to tell you my readers how I nearly quit teaching in my first month on the...

How to write a lesson plan to maximize student learning outcomes

Instantly upgrade your lesson plan with these research supported steps to creating engaging science lessons.