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Prepare for an Incredible School Year With These 4 Essential Science Topics

Back- to-School Season here and we should start thinking about how we are going to introduce scientific concepts to our science students.

Using the Jigsaw Strategy to Teach Trends in the Periodic Table

The Jigsaw Strategy is a collaborative learning strategy that works well for teaching Trends in the Periodic table.

Top 3 Science Concepts 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 the misuse of the Octet Rule leads to misconceptions in chemistry

This full shell or octet framework is problematic such that it results in a number of misconceptions that can hinder a student’s progress.

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 .

4 Student Mistakes When learning to balance Equations (and how you can address them)

Students who struggle to balance chemical equations usually make the same mistakes. I have compiled four common difficulties.

4 Mistakes we make when Teaching the Scientific Method

The Scientific Method is a fundamental topic for our science students, but there are mistakes we make year...here are four!

Guidelines for Teaching Lab Safety

Teaching students about lab safety goes beyond just lab safety rules.

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.