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Getting Nerdy with Mel and Gerdy

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Adaptations, Mutations and Natural Selection - Evolution PowerPoint and Handouts

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May the best beak win as students fight for survival of the fittest in this lesson about mutation, adaptation and evolution by natural selection. Charles Darwin would be so proud!WHAT'S INCLUDED in this 1-2 DAY LESSON:• 19 EDITABLE PowerPoint

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Genetics & Heredity - PowerPoint & Handouts Bundle

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Your students can unravel the mysteries of how DNA affects their appearance, behavior and more using our fun and engaging genetics unit bundle, complete with a guiding PowerPoint, tons of activities, graphic organizers and more!WHAT'S INCLUDED in

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Human Body Systems - PowerPoint & Handouts Bundle

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The leg bone's connected to hip bone... learn all about the major systems of the body from the integumentary system to the nervous system using our fun and engaging human body unit bundle, complete with a guiding PowerPoint, tons of activities,

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Evolution, Natural Selection, Adaptation - PowerPoint & Handouts Bundle

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Watch evolution in action as you leave your species' fate up to chance playing our funky monkey game and trace the evolution of the whale from land to sea in our evolution unit bundle complete with a guiding PowerPoint, tons of activities, graphic

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Ecology & Ecosystems - PowerPoint & Handouts Bundle

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How do organisms interact with one another and their environment? Find everything you need to teach with this ecology and ecosystems unit bundle that is complete with a guiding PowerPoint, tons of activities, graphic organizers and more, plus one of

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Life Science Biology Curriculum Bundle - PowerPoints and Handouts

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Everything you need at your fingertips! Teach an entire YEAR of life science with over 35 weeks of lessons in this curriculum bundle - including daily warm-ups, lessons, labs, activities, projects, study guides and assessments, and an animated

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Cells Organelles & Processes Bundle - PowerPoint, Notes, Labs, Projects, & More

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Your students will "ex-cell" in their cell studies when you use our fun and engaging unit bundle complete with a guiding PowerPoint, labs, activities, graphic organizers and more, including an edible culminating project that's sure to be a "sweet"

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Genetics & Heredity Complete Bundle - PowerPoint Unit, INB, Task Card, Word Wall

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Unit Lesson Plans complete with guiding PowerPoint and student pages? ✓Word walls? ✓ Interactive Notebooks? ✓Task Cards? ✓You're ready to teach with this comprehensive bundle for teaching Genetics and Heredity. Engage your students with our animated

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Scientific Method Complete Bundle - PowerPoint Unit, INB, Task Cards, Word Wall

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Unit Lesson Plans complete with guiding PowerPoint and student pages? ✓Word walls? ✓ Interactive Notebooks? ✓Task Cards? ✓You're ready to teach with this comprehensive bundle for teaching the Nature of Science and the Scientific Method. Engage your

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Ecology Complete Bundle - PowerPoint Unit, INB, Task Card, Word Wall

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Unit Lesson Plans complete with guiding PowerPoint and student pages? ✓Word walls? ✓ Interactive Notebooks? ✓Task Cards? ✓You're ready to teach with this comprehensive bundle for teaching Ecology and Ecosystems. Engage your students with our

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Human Body Systems Complete Bundle - PowerPoint Unit, INB, Task Card, Word Wall

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Unit Lesson Plans complete with guiding PowerPoint and student pages? ✓Word walls? ✓ Interactive Notebooks? ✓Task Cards? ✓You're ready to teach with this comprehensive bundle for teaching the Human Body. Engage your students with our animated

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Food Chains Food Webs and Energy Pyramids - PowerPoint, Notes and Extension

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Use this Ecology mini-bundle to teach all about food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids with a lesson that teaches the difficult concept of how energy is transferred form one organisms to the next in a fun and easy to understand way. WHAT'S

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Science Interactive Notebook - Nature of Science & Scientific Method

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Engage your students with 20 Interactive Notebook activities for all of your scientific method unit needs. Our interactive notebook flippers will have your kids "flipping" their way to learning all about the nature of science and the scientific

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Cells Complete Bundle - PowerPoint Unit, INB, Task Cards, Word Wall

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Unit Lesson Plans complete with guiding PowerPoint and student pages? ✓Word walls? ✓ Interactive Notebooks? ✓Task Cards? ✓You're ready to teach with this comprehensive bundle for teaching Cells and Cellular processes. Engage your students with our

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Evolution Complete Bundle - PowerPoint Unit, INB, Task Cards, Word Wall

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Unit Lesson Plans complete with guiding PowerPoint and student pages? ✓Word walls? ✓ Interactive Notebooks? ✓Task Cards? ✓You're ready to teach with this comprehensive bundle for teaching Evolution. Engage your students with our animated PowerPoints

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Fossils and Radioactive Dating

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Fossils and Radioactive Dating - PowerPoint & Handouts. Our pal the wooly mammoth is dead, but for how long? Students learn about radioactive dating and observe how radioactive decay helps to estimate the age of fossils as they create a wooly

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Scientific Method & Nature of Science - PowerPoint & Handouts Bundle

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The research is in! Your kids will love learning about the scientific method as they chew gum and examine potato chips in this easy to implement unit bundle, complete with a guiding PowerPoint, tons of activities, graphic organizers and more. WHAT'S

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Cell Processes - PowerPoint & Notes, Labs, Activities, & Projects

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How are the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration like baking a cake? Find out all about it and more in our unit bundle - complete with a guiding PowerPoint, labs, activities, flipbooks and more! Your students will never think about

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Ecological Interactions: Symbiosis, Competition, Predation

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We're not gonna lie, it's a win-win relationship with this Ecology mini-bundle as you and your students will both benefit from the fun presentation and engaging mini-project included in this short unit all about interactions among organisms,

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Classification of Life & Viruses Bundle - PowerPoint and Handouts Unit

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The key to understanding the diversity of life is to learn how organisms are classified! This unit bundle is the perfect starting place and comes complete with a guiding PowerPoint, labs, activities, graphic organizers and more, including a GIANT

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Together Mel and Gerdy have 17 years of life science teaching experience. We taught in an International Baccalaureate school in Georgia. Individually, we served as Science Department Chair, Team Leader, Advisory Chair, Science Fair Club Coordinators, and Yearbook Coordinator. Together, we are a dynamic pair with a flair for lesson planning.

MY TEACHING STYLE

We enjoy inquiry-based, hands-on, cross-curricular activities. We LOVED to co-teach. We frequently brought our classes together into one room and teach them together. The kids loved to interact with other classes and enjoyed seeing their teachers have fun together.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Together we have: Flown weightless on the Zero G (a.k.a. Vomit Comet) and achieved eight total minutes of weightlessness (see Mel holding the sign and Gerdy's long hair achieving new heights): Walked the model's catwalk for Teacher in the Spotlight. Worked alongside Ecologists in Skidaway and Sapelo Island GA. Mel was honored by being featured as Atlanta's 11 Alive Class Act Teacher of the Month where she was interviewed and her class appeared on the morning news!

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Gerdy: B.S. Wildlife Biology & M.Ed. Biology both from Auburn University Mel: B.S. Biology & B.S. Biology Education both from Kennesaw University

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We aim to please. Before leaving feedback, please contact us via "Ask a Question" or Email Us and let us know if we can help make our products better for you and your students. Getting Nerdy prides itself in good customer service and would appreciate the opportunity to provide the highest quality science products for your needs. All of our materials are designed for implementation within a middle school setting but can easily be adapted for remedial high school biology or higher level elementary life science with scaffolding and substantial teacher facilitation. **All pictures, graphics, and artwork in our lessons are either purchased legally for use or are created by Getting Nerdy, LLC**