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Students actively engaged in the 25k Pyramid Activity! 🥳 We’ve used this strategy to review previously taught concepts and prior to a CMA!

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FUN learning activity after FAST Writing!

Academic Language / Vocab Art 🤩 Students picked their word(s) from a bucket, drew their word, then participated in a gallery walk to observe and determine their classmates’ words!

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Students enjoyed climate PPTs so much, they asked to make them for our environments unit!

We included animals (and their classifications 😉), plants found in environemnt, and related the environments to previously taught units!

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Summed up our climate unit with PPT presentations - collectively, students created their own rubric based on EQs + the standards!

Students provided each other with sticky notes containing 1 thing they learned from the presentation!

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Students at @HCPSGorrieEL activate their brains each day with focused review standards—strengthening skills & refining their thinking for lasting mastery.

Plus, who doesn’t love earning “Love Jar” tickets along the way? 🧠✨ 🩷

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I truly work for the best department in HCPS! 🥹 Thank you to the Science Department for always making us (teachers AND students) feel valued!

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Wrapped up U13, Our Solar System, earlier this week … and I can’t bring myself to take down students’ 2D/3D models! 🪐🧑🏼‍🚀 Students are really enjoying our Earth Science units!

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wrapped up our physical change experiments prior to fall break - excited to give students a brain break after testing with our chemical change experiment!

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sad to take down our unit 7 and unit 8 science walls, but excited for how units 9 and 10 are coming along 😍👩🏻‍🔬@WeAreHAEST @HCPSElemScience

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Celebrated our grade level Science Olympics winners on the morning show (Friday) + surprised them with a @WeAreHAEST tshirt! THEN, today, we celebrated our 1st + 2nd Grade Winners for winning their district heats on Saturday. @HCPSElemScience @HCPSGorrieEL

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One of my teaching goals for ‘25-‘26 was to utilize mini rubrics for student responses (instead of hand written sticky notes 😜) - proud to say, so far so good … they’re even color coded!

👀 check out that VE modification for written responses!

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THANK YOU @WeAreHAEST! 🤩 Very excited to conduct this investigation!

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Started collecting QUANTITATIVE / MEASURABLE data on our LTI Grow Creatures! Students enjoyed using tools to collect their data and share with their class!

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LATE POST: Wrapped up Unit 0 + Unit 1 Process Skills … two weeks ago 🤭! Students enjoyed mini investigations to set the stage for the rest of the year!

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@HCPSGorrieEL getting CPR Certified! 🏥

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Thank you, Martial Arts Advantage, for training @HCPSGorrieEL faculty in self defense techniques! @HCPSEmployeeBen

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@HCPSGorrieEL faculty learning self defense techniques from Martial Arts Advantage! @HCPSEmployeeBen #HillsboroughHappenings

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taking a quick second to brag on my M/S partner, Mrs. Beatty, absolutely rocking her science wall 🔭

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safe to say our 🏆scholar bowl, 🔐 escape rooms, and 🔭 review stations ensured our students’ success on FSSA • extremely proud of our kiddos and all their hard work!

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swapped our human body visual with the beginning of animal adaptations (camouflage)!

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