Secondary Science Simplified™
Rebecca Joyner, High School Science Teacher
Secondary Science Simplified is a podcast specifically for high school science teachers that will help you to engage your students AND simplify your life as a secondary science educator. Each week Rebecca, from It's Not Rocket Science, and her guests will share practical and easy-to-implement strategies for decreasing your workload so that you can stop working overtime and start focusing your energy doing what you love - actually teaching! Teaching doesn't have to be rocket science, and you'll...
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Episodes (233)
182. End the Year Organized: Your Resources
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181. What to Do When Your Job Feels Stale (And Maybe Even Boring)
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180. Unpacking the NGSS With Christina Agurcia of Make Them Think
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179. Unpacking the NGSS: Phenomena and Storylines
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178. Unpacking the NGSS: SEPs and CCCs
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177. Unpacking the NGSS: What High School Science Teachers Need to Know
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176. Teaching AP Biology, Exam Review, FRQ Prep and MORE With Tiffany of AP Bio...
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175. How and WHY I Teach Students to Take Notes
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174. 7 Ways to Teach Your Students to Use AI Productively
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173. 9 Quick Ways to Use AI to Simplify Your Life as a Teacher
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172. Content-Specific Differentiation Tips
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171. Differentiating Within One Class Period (And How to Not Make It Obvious)
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170. Differentiating for Lower Achieving Students (Without Lowering the Bar)
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169. Differentiating for Higher Achieving Students (That Isn’t Just Extra Work)
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168. Differentiation in Your Science Classroom - Simple Tips to Decrease Overwhe...
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167. Teacher Mental Health With Guest Dr. Hayley Watson
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166. How to Use Your Students to Work Smarter Rather Than Harder
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165. How Naming What Matters Most Can Change the Rest of Your School Year
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164. My Top Tips for Kicking Off a New Semester
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163. What I Wish I Knew in My First Year of Teaching High School Science: 5 Simp...
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162. 5 Essential Teacher Hacks for High School and Middle School Science Teacher...
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161. Relief for the Burdened Teacher: How to Deal With Caring More Than Your Stu...
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160. 4 Proven Tips to INSTANTLY Decrease Your Grading Time
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159. My TOP TIPS for Helping Students Learn and Retain DENSE Topics in Your Scie...
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158. How to NOT Feel Like You Are Teaching to the Test
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157. Serving ELLs With AI and MORE With Guest Alyse of Keystone Science
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156. What to Do When You Are Micromanaged by Your Admin or District
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155. How to Create Active and Accountable Learners in Your Secondary Science Cla...
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154. AI and Chat GPT With Guest Mitch Wieland
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153. How to Make Boring Topics More Engaging
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152. Absences - How to Deal With Them
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151. Ask Me Anything! Part 2: Differentiated Instruction, Difficult Conversation...
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150. Ask Me Anything! Part 1: Difficult Coworkers, Engaging Labs, Classroom Mana...
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149. Teaching on a Block Schedule - Why It’s Not as Bad as You Think
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148. When You Have Too Much to Do and Too Little Time
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147. Content Coverage - How to Get Through All of the Standards
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146. How to Nail Your Next Observation - Planned or Unannounced
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145. How to Build Resilience in Students Post-Pandemic
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144. 4 Ways Having “No Rules” Has Changed My Life (And Could Change Your School...
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143. My Top 5 Favorite Teacher Hacks for the New School Year
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142. Reflections From a First-Year AP Teacher With Guest Laura Tice
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141. First Day of School Tips + What I Cover in My First Units of the Year
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140. 5 Tips for Teaching Chemistry
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139. Sunday Scaries - How I Use Friday Planning to Prevent Them
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138. Serving Future You - How to Work Smarter, Not Harder
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137. Work/Life Balance as a Mom and AP Teacher With Guest Kimberly Leary
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136. Building a Team Mindset Into Your Classroom Culture
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135. Using Anticipatory Conversations to Diffuse Classroom Chaos
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134. Prioritizing Relationships Over Being Right
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133. Using Refrains When Teaching
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