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Michelle Schuster

I am a Biology teacher at Boone County High School in Florence, Kentucky. This is my 20th year teaching at Boone County High School where I am also an alumni. I have always had a love for Science since I was a high school student in Biology class. I love teaching through phenomena based learning and integrating the NGSS into my curriculum.

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Fri Jun 07, 2019 2:45 PM in Teaching Basic Needs to 2nd Graders!

Hello Jada, I love the picture perfect science books they integrate reading and science. There is a lesson called the amazing caterpillar and students learn about the life cycle of a catepillar along with the life characteristics of animals. The lesson also the books , "From Catepillar to Butterfly" and "The Very Hungry Catepillar". The lessons use the 5 E's and are very user friendly.

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Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:54 PM in Lesson Plan on Food chains- vocabulary

Hi Dana, I think an excellent way to review food chains and food webs is to dissect owl pellets and then have students create food chains / webs of the things they find in their owl pellets. They can review the vocabulary as they label these food chains/webs.

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Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:49 PM in Parts of a Plant 5E Lesson

Hello Courtney, the Picture Perfect science books https://common.nsta.org/resource/?id=10.2505/9781935155171 are great resources for elementary classrooms integrating the NGSS, science and reading all in one lesson. I found one called Seeds on the move. It uses the 5 E's to teach a lesson about seeds on the move. The lesson explores the variety of ways plants disperse their seeds to produce...

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