I didn’t know what flare would work best, but I had a question for my teacher that he didn’t explain enough. Since our oceans acidity is increasing. Then why don’t we put a large amount of a base (like limestone) to balance it. What realistically would be bad for us not to even consider it?

I teach science grades 4-9, tiny school, small classes. 1 hour long lessons. Subplans are usually a science film with accompanying questions. I had to be out one day recently and I left a a BBC chemical reactions video. Many of them hated this. Any ideas for good subplans that don't involve much on the sub's part (ours is a lovely lady, but I am not going to make her do my regular hands-on lessons) and don't involve screens?

Hey there everyone. Just curious if anyone here has a master's or a PhD in a scientific or engineering field and decided to transition to teaching K-12, or at an adult high school, and what led you to do so. I've heard of people doing this after graduate school but I have no idea how common it is, though I did have a high school teacher with a PhD in the 2010s.

Has anyone done the space camp for educators? If so, what are the coolest things you got to do? I know I’ll get lots of great teaching stuff but I led to “sell” it to my supervisor and I’d like to highlight anything neat we get to do as a participant. U can’t find many details online.

or another alternative? tell me about the safety protocols you took that are different from standard safety protocols.

Hey guys im 18 and im a full time para at a middle school. Ive been doing this for abouy 2 years and im a bio major at my local community classes (I do about 4-5 classes a semester), I know for a fact I want to get into teaching, specifically science but I really dont know what my next step is, ill probably have to swap to an expensive college soon and i have no idea what to major in or if I should drop out as a para and go to college full time. Any tips would be great. Thank you!!!

Hello guys, I am a first year primary school teacher and I need some ideas for states of matter experiments I can use for an after school club. I have never done this before and the Internet has given me some good ideas so far, but I also wanted to try here.

States of matter and specifically something going from solid to liquid, or liquid to solid.

The issue is, I have 40-50 minutes with them, I need something hands on so they will not get bored, something with quick results because they need to see the outcome before they leave! Ingredients can be whatever.

I am very sorry if I make no sense, English is not my first language and I may not be using the correct terms!!

Hello! I am a science illustrator and had an educator tell me they'd like to see more illustrations of the less popular animals for use in teaching lessons. What are some of the things you've struggled to find illustrations of (even if it's not just animals...)? Do you use AI for creation when you can't find what you are looking for? And what sites do you look for illustrations at? I have really only worked one on one with teachers in the past to develop what they need.

I teach physical science to 9th graders and I have 90 minute blocks.

How do you structure your day/week?

I am struggling with having that much time and keeping a predictable routine

I’ve started doing private science lessons with a first grader, and we’ve had two sessions so far. For our first session, we took a nature walk, did a scavenger hunt, and I just followed his questions to get a sense of his interests. Turns out he’s enthusiastic about pretty much EVERYTHING science-related lol For our second session, we visited the Science Center and had the best time.

We meet for two hours every other week, and I’d love to mix in some hands-on experiments and projects we can do at home. I have plenty of outing ideas, but I’d like some options for rainy days and days when we stay in.

I could, of course check the internet, but I want to hear from you all, too. What are your favorite simple but exciting experiments for this age? Ideally, I’m looking for activities with easy to find materials and minimal prep that leave room for him to ask questions, explore, and try things out. They don’t need to fill the whole two hours, we can combine a few activities!

I’d love to hear any tried-and-true favorites from other science teachers!

for my investigation project I was assinged to do physicochemical tests on a yogurt to check if the sample achieves the requirements of the laws of my country.

however (in my opinion) we don't have enough time to do them. We are a group of four people, and we have 12 hours aprox to do seven differents tests on the sample.

I'm worried with the time management, so I wanna ask what would be the best way to distribute the work and if anyone who has any experience with this could give me any advice.

the tests are: Total Solids Determination, Moisture Content Determination, Total Ash Determination, Titratable Acidity Determination (as Lactic Acid), pH Measurement, Sodium Chloride Determination by the Mohr Method, Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) and Kjeldahl Method for Nitrogen Determination.

I'm particularly worried with the kjeldahl method, since it has a lot of steps. should we leave it until last?

thanks for reading, any advice (and honestly, words of encouragement since I'm really worried) is welcomed

Does anyone have any good resources (and/or ideas) when it comes to teaching all of the motion graph?. I'm not finding a lot and what I am finding isn't great.

I am teaching a high school sped science class, and I really like using the middle school POGIL resources to supplement my curriculum. I was able to use the z-library to get a copy of POGIL Activities for Earth & Space Science—Designed to Support the NGSS. I am not spending 60 bucks a pop to buy a copy of POGIL Activities for Physical Science—Designed to Support the NGSS and POGIL Activities for Life Science—Designed to Support the NGSS. I cannot find copies of the other two manuals. Does anyone know of another way to get hold of those other two sets?

How do you teach orbitals? For high school chemistry. I try to cover the diagonal method but the kids tend to prefer filling in the paper with the squares. Also just using the periodic table is always good. Just curious how you guys do it and have any good resources my curriculum is pretty thin (second year teacher)

What are some biology/science projects you do in your classroom besides research or posters?

Hello Science Teachers of Reddit! I have been teaching K-4 STEM for the past 4 years, and this year the district decided to move Science out of the grade-level classroom and into the STEM specials class.

I’m curious to hear from middle and secondary science teachers outside of my community - in general, what do YOU wish students were learning in their elementary science context? Is it mostly process and procedures, or specific scientific knowledge? With the limited time I have with students, I want to make it as impactful as possible for our future scientists 🤓

Thank you in advance for your consideration!

going to be starting a new unit on chemistry for my 10th graders. i’ve been running into problems where we finish our notes and the students finish (what’s supposed to be) the homework with lots of time to spare. can anyone offer any ideas on how to keep them busy? looking more for long-term group/individual projects instead of just giving more worksheets but at this point i will take anything

On the sly, she put an eye mask on me and sprayed some mist around the room. On a physics level, what is happening here? I know the lavender covered up some of the stink, or at least made it smell like some farted in a lavender plant.

Since liquid is heavier than gas, does the mist cling to the fart molecules? Does it push them to the floor? Does the floor smell worse than the air at this point? I'm a journalism major, and I don't understand how this works.