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Lesson Plan: Integumentary System Sensory Lab
We love teaching our Human Body Unit from the inside out. Skin, muscles, bones, and all the other systems that work in-between. Before we begin though, we like to introduce important vocabulary using...
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Lesson Plan: Muscular System Blinking Lab
When you’re teaching the human body systems, it can be fun to start from the outside and work your way in. After completing the Integumentary system, we liked to move in another layer, the muscular...
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Lesson Plan: Skeletal System Project
There ain’t no bones about it – humans would be a big pile of muscles, skin and gooey organs if it weren’t for the skeletal system! We love teaching our human body unit from the inside out – skin,...
View ArticleTeacher Tools: Using REDDIT to Discover Top Education Trends
We have been playing around with different ways of “Getting Nerdy” online. The main avenues teachers use to search for new ideas, teaching tips, and trending educational trends tends to be through...
View Article15 Strategies for Using Interactive Notebooks in your Classroom
Interactive notebooks aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, so you might as well learn all the tricks of trade for these student-centered hands-on learning tools. Don’t know where to look? Don’t worry –...
View ArticleLife Science Scope and Sequence
There have been SO many requests for us to detail out our year-long agenda – what order we teach lessons, how long a unit takes to teach, how much content is delivered, etc. These are all great...
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A Day in the Life of A Science Teacher
Wanna walk a day in our shoes? Here’s what a day in the life of a Nerdy science teacher (aka Mel and Gerdy) looks like: 7:00 am: Arrive at school. Gather materials to be copied if needed. We loved...
View ArticleOnline, Distance and At-Home Learning: How to Use Your Nerdy Lessons
Whether you are homeschooling, distance learning, online or at-home learning, we want to make sure we are supporting our educators and parents however we can. We’ve had tons of questions regarding how...
View ArticleLesson Plan: Easy Symbiotic Relationships
“I love the ecology unit! Thanks for all your hard work! Do you have any basic answers for the unit 3 symbiosis want ad assignment (like what type of relationship each group has)? This would help so...
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15 Outdoor Lesson Ideas for Your Urban Science Classroom
Want to incorporate more outdoor science lessons in your urban classroom but lack the green space to do it? These 15 tips will have you and your kiddos slapping on the sunscreen and your sunglasses and...
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