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Bill Young

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Let's Go Fly a Kite Engineering Project

By Bill Young

Students design, build and test a kite over a 3 day period. This is followed by another 3 day period for redesign and additional testing. Project encourages students to share ideas and to use effective engineering skills in an effort to meet the

Subjects:

Physics, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Geocaching Project

By Bill Young

Students learn about the global treasure hunt called Geocaching in the intro PowerPoint. The project has them build and hide caches on campus, and log their coordinates using several GPS devices that I have gathered through the years (I started

Subjects:

Measurement, Environment, Geography

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Adult Education, Homeschool

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PowerPoint Presentations, Projects, Rubrics

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Butterfly Camouflage Lab

By Bill Young

Students color and hide 3 paper butterflies around the classroom. They use colored pencils, crayons and markers to provide camouflage so the butterfly blends in with its natural environment. After 2-3 days of creating and preparing, students get

Subjects:

Biology, Environment, General Science

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

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Projects, Laboratory, Printables

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Shoe Dichotomous Key Lab

By Bill Young

Students come in and all place their right shoes into a large pile. They then use the provided template to create a dichotomous key that separates the shoes into smaller and smaller piles based on their charateristics until all students have their

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Biology, Environment

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Counting Turtles Mark and Recapture Lab

By Bill Young

Students use a cardboard box to represent their "pond" and several cutout paper turtles to represent their population. Students take turns reaching in and capturing some of the turtles, and marking them with a highlighter. Turtles are replaced

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Biology, Environment, General Science

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Poppers Experimental Design Lab

By Bill Young

Students are provided rubber poppers (http://www.orientaltrading.com/large-marbleized-poppers-a2-16_454-12-1.fltr?Ntt=popper) that are various sizes and colors. Students design an experiment to test an independent variable of their choice (color of

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Basic Principles, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Frogs in a Pond Ecosystem Simulation

By Bill Young

Students are assigned a starting population of frogs from one of 11 different ponds in the Central Florida area. They track the health of their population over a 10-year simulated timespan (10 rolls of the dice). Each time they roll, something

Subjects:

Biology, Environment, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Laboratory, Games, Simulations

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Ship a Chip Challenge

By Bill Young

Students build a container that will fit inside a standard #10 envelope and will protect a single Pringle's potato chip as it travels through the U.S. mail system.

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

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Tusk vs. Tuskless Lab

By Bill Young

Students investigate the impact that poaching has on a population of "elephants" (represented by beans). One color represents elephants with tusks, and the other represents a variety without tusks. Reaching into a bag filled with an equal number

Subjects:

Biology, Environment, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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Projects, Laboratory, Printables

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Time Capsule Letter Project

By Bill Young

My 6th, 7th and 8th grade middle school students will spend a week writing a letter to their future selves at the time of their high school graduation. They will be answering all of the provided questions as well as taking feedback during a peer

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, End of Year

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

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Oreo Experimental Design Challenge

By Bill Young

Students use America's favorite cookie to determine if double stuff really do have "double" the stuff. Materials needed include scales (triple beam or digital), plastic knives, napkins and cookies. This would be a good assessment for students to

Subjects:

Science, Basic Principles, General Science

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

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Homemade Board Game Project

By Bill Young

This project tasks students to create a board game that will teach a core content topic to other students. These board games could be from any subject (elective, math, science, language arts, etc.). I created this project to encourage my gifted

Subjects:

Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects

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3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Stop Motion Movie Project

By Bill Young

Students use a still camera to take still pictures of an object, move the object, and shoot another picture. Process continues until students have several hundred photos. They then use video editing software (iMovie or Windows Movie Maker) to put

Subjects:

Visual Arts, Gifted and Talented, Instructional Technology

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Rollercoaster Lab

By Bill Young

Students use foam insulation and marbles to investigate the potential energy a coaster car (marble) gets from the first hill and how that translates into kinetic energy as the marble travels around the first loop.

Subjects:

Physics, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

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Penny Genetics Lab

By Bill Young

Students use Punnett Squares to predict the outcome of a genetic crossing between two parents. Students then use coins (or poker chips) to simulate the genetic cross between two parents and the resulting offspring (100 babies). Lastly, students

Subjects:

Science, Biology, General Science

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6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Mapping the Ocean Floor

By Bill Young

Students will use a variety of objects to simulate an ocean floor in the classroom, and will then use similar techniques to oceanographers to map their ocean from one continent to the next.

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Environment, General Science

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Bubble Gum Sugar Content Lab

By Bill Young

Students bring in different types of sugar bubble gum (Hubba Bubba, Bubblicious, Double Bubble, etc.). Gum is weight (with wrapper), then chewed, then weighed again (with wrapper). This generates individual data which is used to create a data

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Biology, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Follow The Directions

By Bill Young

I use this with my students whenever I start to see that they are neglecting to read the directions on one of my science labs. This really helps them understand the importance of reading and following step-by-step instructions. Students work

Subjects:

Life Skills, Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Activities

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My International Virtual Vacation

By Bill Young

Students are given a budget to plan out a 14-day virtual vacation using travel planning sites and the websites for hotels, restaurants and attractions. They use the information to create a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the cities they plan

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Career and Technical Education, Geography

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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PowerPoint Presentations, Projects, Rubrics

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We Didn't Start The Fire Song Project

By Bill Young

In 1989, Billy Joel released a song called "We Didnt' Start the Fire". The song lyrics talk about events that happened during the 50 year period starting from when Mr. Joel was born in1949 and running through the decade that the song was released

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Music, Music Composition

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Worksheets, Projects, Songs

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

14+ years teaching public education, 10 of those have been with gifted learners. I have been teaching middle school students since 2001.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I prefer to give students an opportunity to do hands on projects and to produce projects both individually and in groups. My classroom style is more of a manager while the students explore and learn on their own.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Selected as teacher of the year 2 times by two different schools. I have won over $30,000 in grants in the past 5 years.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

BS Degree in Biology from the University of Central Florida National Board Certified Teacher in Middle Grades Science 300+ hours in Gifted Endorsement classes completed in 2005

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

In addition to my time in the classroom, I am frequently called upon to teach workshops in my district, am the county resource teacher for our newly adopted textbook, and have been asked to author content for a variety of science books and websites.