The Sunrise Science Classroom Blog
Hey teacher friend! This blog is your go-to spot for creative ways to teach science with clarity and confidence. I’m sharing ideas, classroom-tested tips, and meaningful strategies to help you keep things rigorous and engaging... because science class should be anything but boring! ☀️
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A Graphing Project Using Real Great White Shark Data
Kids are fascinated by the mysterious and terrifying Great White Shark! For this fun digital graphing project, your middle school students will create digital graphs of real Great White Shark data. They will collect their data from the amazing website […]
Digital Doodle Notes: 7 Helpful Combinations for Hybrid and Remote Science Teaching
2020 = Flexibility For anyone who knows me, you know I have a deep love for visual aesthetics. My Cornell Doodle Notes were born out of a need for my students to not only record information but to also do it in […]
Add Some Fun to Your Google Classroom
When it became necessary to deliver ALL of my content through Google Classroom, I looked for ways to inject some FUN into it! Since I can’t see my students’ smiling faces everyday, I hope that I can bring a little […]
Distance Learning Tech Tools for Science Teachers
I’m one month into the distance learning adventure with my middle school science classes and I have had ups and downs with various tools that I’ve tried. I tried a handful of educational resources that caused my students or me […]
How to Assign Digital Cornell Doodle Notes with Google Classroom
The Age of Distance Learning Is Upon Us With the onset of the Coronavirus threat, we are all looking for ways to keep our students engaged virtually. Instead of printing sets of Cornell Doodle Notes on paper, this article explains […]
How to Jazz Up Your Digital Resources with Great Google Fonts!
Maybe it’s in my head because I myself am such a visual learner, but I feel like my students take activities and assignments more seriously when they are aesthetically-pleasing! I think the engagement factor for an activity can be instantaneous […]
An Experimental Design Project That Is Not a Cookbook Lab
Experimental design is an umbrella term for a big concept! Science pedagogy used to have us box it up with a pretty bow and call it ‘the scientific method’. And in order to practice good science, there is absolutely a […]
Designing and Building Mousetrap Cars During Your Physics Unit
Student-designed mousetrap cars are a great way to incorporate engineering and design principles into your physics unit! Student groups will design, construct, and race their mousetrap cars while learning about energy transfer, simple machines, and speed!
Optimize the Use of Cornell Doodle Notes in Your Science Class
I had a proud teacher moment this February when I realized that I had trained my 8th graders to effectively complete Cornell Doodle Notes all on their own. I put the simple instructions on the screen to choose a scaffolded […]
Using Manipulatives to Teach Chemistry Concepts
How Can We Differentiate Complex Content for Our Various Learners? At the middle school level, it’s sometimes a great challenge to differentiate for various learning styles when you’re in the midst of a chemistry unit. Imagine learning about chemical bonding […]