Jessica shares her passion for teaching and education on What I Have Learned. Jessica has 16 years of elementary teaching experience and currently homeschools her two middle school boys. She enjoys scaffolding learning for students, focusing on helping our most challenging learners achieve success in all academic areas.
Teaching climate science is hard enough when students are wrestling with abstract concepts like greenhouse gases, climate zones, and long-term weather patterns. Add unfamiliar vocabulary to the mix, and you’ve…
Looking for an easy, engaging writing activity to use at the end of the school year? This summer bucket list printable graphic organizer is a simple way to get students…
Life science is the content area where students realize that science isn’t just something that happens in a lab. It’s happening all around them, in every living thing they encounter….
Earth science is one of those topics that feels enormous on paper but becomes immediately concrete the moment students pick up a rock, watch water carve a path through sand,…
If you’ve ever had a student gasp after getting a tiny shock from a doorknob, you already know that static electricity is one of those science topics that grabs attention…
Teaching Earth’s spheres can feel abstract, especially when students are trying to picture how rocks form, how landscapes shift, and how living things interact with the ground beneath them. The…
Teaching students about water erosion and soil deposition is so much more powerful when they can see it happening right in front of them. This hands-on soil deposition lab activity…
Teaching weathering can be tricky because the process happens so slowly in real life. We’re talking years, decades, even centuries. That’s exactly why this rock-breaking plants activity is so effective….
Teaching fossil fuels can feel a little abstract for students. After all, we’re talking about things that formed millions of years ago. That’s where this diagram-based fossil fuels activity makes…
Teaching seed dispersal may seem straightforward at first, but it quickly turns into a deeper conversation about how plants survive and reproduce. Once students start thinking about how seeds move…
Earth Day is the perfect time to bring meaningful, hands-on learning into your classroom. These Earth Day projects for students help kids understand how their choices impact the environment while…
When students research a historical figure, one of the biggest challenges is organizing all the information they find. That’s where graphic organizers for biographies come in. These tools help students…
End of content
End of content