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Nothing quite humbles a teacher like opening your

Nothing quite humbles a teacher like opening your schedule in August and realizing you’re teaching a subject you’ve never taught before.

Suddenly you’re asking yourself:
➡️ What do I teach first?
➡️ How long should each unit take?
➡️ Am I even covering the right standards?
➡️ Why does everyone else seem to have their life together?

(Spoiler: They don’t.)

Whether you’re a first-year teacher, got “voluntold” to switch grade levels, or you’ve taught Physical Science for years and you’re ready to stop piecing together lessons from 37 random folders... this free pacing guide is for you.

It maps out the school year week by week with suggested topics, pacing, teaching ideas, and resources so you’re not spending every Sunday night Googling “How do I teach about energy to middle school students?”

✔️ NGSS aligned
✔️ Texas TEKS aligned
✔️ Florida B.E.S.T. aligned
✔️ Designed to help you plan smarter and work any harder.

Comment PHYSICAL and I’ll send you the FREE Physical Science Pacing Guide straight to your DMs. 🚀

Every middle school science teacher has heard at l

Every middle school science teacher has heard at least one of these or if you’re like me… all of these.

And Middle school science teachers know these aren’t jokes... they’re actual questions. 🤪

As funny as they are, those comments usually tell you one thing: your students don’t understand why the rules exist yet.

One of the biggest mistakes I see with lab safety is turning it into a day where the teacher talks and the students nod along... until the first lab when you have to remind students that no, you’re not supposed to eat shaving cream or wear your goggles as a headband.

Instead, make students part of the lesson.

Ask them questions before you teach. Stop throughout the lesson to check for understanding. Have them explain ideas in their own words instead of just copying notes. When students are interacting with the content every few minutes, they’re much more likely to remember it when they’re actually holding beakers, hot glassware, and chemicals.

That’s exactly why I love building lessons with:
🧪 An engaging question before the content
✔️ Checkpoints throughout the lesson (instead of saving all the thinking for the end)
📝 Cornell-style guided notes that work in interactive science notebooks or digitally
🎨 Opportunities for students to write, draw, highlight, and make the notes their own
📋 A mixed-format assessment that checks real understanding—not just memorization

Lab safety is one of the easiest units you’ll teach all year, which makes it the perfect opportunity to establish how learning works in your classroom before the science content becomes more challenging.

If you’re looking for a lesson, guided notes, and assessment that keeps students involved instead of just listening, comment SAFETY and I’ll send you the link. 🥽

This is a classroom purchase I loved so much that

This is a classroom purchase I loved so much that I bought a second for my home office.

It’s on sale for prime day!

I use this thing every day. I store all my tiny supplies and go-to items in it so that I don’t have to go on a full manhunt to find what I need in my classroom.

Adding the labels was quick and easy and I had so much fun designing them! They also add a little decor to something that provides a ton of function.

Personally, I let my students access it when needed to. If I’m busy and they ask for a band aid, tape, a rubber band, staples, an eraser cap, pencil sharpener, whatever. I tell them to grab one from the toolbox and they don’t even have to ask which drawer.

I swear by this thing!

Comment “toolbox” to get the link to this exact one in the video. ✨

Ill share the link to the labels under the “Amazon Finds” highlight 🛒

Appreciating the little things on summer break ✨

Appreciating the little things on summer break ✨

There is something about a bingo card that turns e

There is something about a bingo card that turns even the most reluctant students into highly competitive academic warriors.

And honestly? I’ll take it.

If you’re tired of reviewing Science & Engineering Practices with another worksheet, this bingo game makes students actually engage with the vocabulary instead of just copying definitions and forgetting them 10 minutes later.

✔️ 45 unique bingo cards
✔️ Low prep and easy to use
✔️ Perfect for review days, stations, test prep, sub plans, and early finishers
✔️ Aligns to the 8 NGSS Science & Engineering Practices, Florida Nature of Science standards, and Texas TEKS
✔️ Reinforces vocabulary like hypothesis, evidence, variables, control groups, peer review, models, prototypes, data analysis, and more

The best part? Students can’t just randomly mark spaces and hope for the best. They actually have to know the vocabulary terms that match the definitions being called out.

Print them once, laminate them, and you’ve got a review game you can pull out year after year.

Because if middle schoolers are going to be competitive anyway, we might as well make it educational. 😏

Comment BINGO and I’ll send you the link!

Everyone treats lab safety like the boring thing y

Everyone treats lab safety like the boring thing you have to get through before the “real science” starts.
But what if lab safety is actually the BEST unit you’ll teach all year?

Hear me out...

Lab safety content isn’t usually difficult for students to understand. That’s exactly why it’s the perfect time to teach something even MORE important: your classroom procedures.

✅ How to use an interactive science notebook
✅ How to complete task cards or other assignments
✅ How projects/grouping work in your classroom
✅ How to submit assignments
✅ How grading and feedback work
✅ How to participate in class discussions
✅ How to use warm-ups and bell ringers
✅ How and when content will be reviewed
✅ How quizzes and tests are going to look

When students aren’t overwhelmed by challenging content, they can focus their brainpower on learning how your classroom runs.

Think of your lab safety unit as your classroom training camp.
The routines and expectations you establish during those first few weeks will save you HOURS of frustration later in the year.

That’s why I created FREE lab safety warm-ups, task cards, and a choice board that help you teach lab safety while simultaneously practicing classroom procedures with engagement included.

Want them?

Comment FRL and I’ll send you a link to@access to my Free Resource Library filled with these lab safety activities and tons of other middle school science resources. 🔬

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