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Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

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Paper models bundle: ear, eye, skin

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

You can get all three of our paper model kits in this bundle. Have students assemble paper models of eyes, ears, and skin, or make models to have in your classroom during units on the human body.Please remember to rate our product! It helps other

Subjects:

Science, Anatomy, Biology

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

$7.85

$6.00

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AP Biology: Cellular Respiration Board Game

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

This game is the most complex, yet most understandable, game about cellular respiration you’ll ever find. It includes glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain. Each of these three parts is on a separate paper, but all three

Subjects:

Anatomy, Biology

Grades:

12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Printables, Games

$7.95

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The Original Brain Hat

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

Make a paper hat that shows the major lobes of the cerebrum and what they do. It's the hat that's been used in schools, universities and museums around the world! You can find unauthorized copies all over the internet, but this is the original

Subjects:

Science, Anatomy, Biology

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

FREE

Digital Download PDF (36.04 MB)

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Paper Model of Eye

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

This is a complete kit for making a model of the human eye. The pdf includes the patterns to cut and directions for assembling. You will need: copies of the pattern pages printed onto lightweight card stock scissors white glue or good quality glue

Subjects:

Science, Anatomy, Biology

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

$2.95

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Two Paper Virus Models

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

Viruses are very weird beings, perched right on the line between alive and non-living, and shaped more like mechanical gizmos than like animals. Your students can cut, fold, tape and glue to make their own paper models of two common viruses. The

Subjects:

Science, Biology

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

$3.95

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The Rumination Game

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

Perfect for 4-H or biology class: this game demonstrates (unforgettably!) how the ruminating stomach system works. Players or teams move tokens through the digestive system, following the numbers that outline the route. At each point, they move

Subjects:

Science, Biology, Vocational Education

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Printables, Games, Centers

$4.95

Digital Download PDF (1.91 MB)

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Ectomy: a brain parts board game

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

Nine major brain regions, one set of forceps: how long will it take your students to put their brain together and win?Each student gets a blank brain map, but all of its parts are in a pool in the middle. Draw a card and answer the question

Subjects:

Science, Anatomy, Biology

Grades:

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

Types:

GATE, Printables, Games

$4.95

Digital Download PDF (7.90 MB)

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Paper Model of Human Skin

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

This is a kit for making a cut-away model of human skin. It has been slightly simplified, for example it shows only melanocytes, not all cells. Let students assemble it as a review exercise, or make a model for your classroom.You will need:printed

Subjects:

Science, Anatomy, Biology

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

$1.95

Digital Download PDF (5.21 MB)

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Paper Model of Ear

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

This is a kit for cutting, folding, and taping paper to make a model of the human ear. It's a great activity for reviewing a unit on hearing or the human body, or make a model to have in your classroom.You will need the pattern pages printed out on

Subjects:

Science, Anatomy, Biology

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

$2.95

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Diatom crafts: box or ornaments

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

Oceanography for Christmas? Decorate your holiday tree with diatoms! Diatoms are algae that make their own glass shells from silicon they take from the water. They build shells in snowflake-like geometric designs, fitting a top valve onto a bottom

Subjects:

Biology, Environment, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

GATE, Printables, Centers

$2.95

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DNA PAPER MODEL to cut and assemble

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

This model of DNA is more detailed than most paper models designed for students. Here you can see every atom! You can see how and why the bases connect, and you can see the difference between ribose and deoxyribose. Explaining the 5′ and 3′

Subjects:

Science, Anatomy, Biology

Grades:

11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, GATE, Printables

$1.95

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3 AP Biology board games

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

This bundle includes three AP level games for biology and biochemistry. You will get:Translation Taxi: mRNA GameThe C3 Photosynthesis GameThe Cellular Respiration GameYour students will have much better recall of basic cellular processes after

Subjects:

Biology, Chemistry

Grades:

12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Activities, Printables

$22.85

$18.00

Bundle

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The Carbon Cycle Board Game

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

Let's say you're a Carbon atom, and you're ready for adventure. Jump on this board and see how fast you can race through a cycle of transformations: join a sugar during photosynthesis and wait to be exhaled by an animal...and then do it again. Or

Subjects:

Biology, Chemistry, Environment

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Games

$4.95

Digital Download PDF (11.26 MB)

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4 Anatomy Valentines

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

This Valentine’s Day, give a message from your heart—-and your brain and lungs! Maybe your liver and bones too, but we don’t have those cards yet. We didn’t forget your fingertips, though!Every card needs a silly joke, and these four cards have

Subjects:

Anatomy, Health, Valentine's Day

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Printables, Centers

$1.00

Digital Download PDF (3.07 MB)

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Chinese Dragon Lantern Craft

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

Make a better-than-average Chinese lantern with this template and directions. We had our classes make these as decorations for our Chinese New Year party and wow did they look nice!Students will color the dragon and assemble the lantern with adult

Subjects:

Asian Studies

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Projects, Printables, Cultural Activities

$1.95

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Egg Development Wheel activity

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

Students can make a demonstration of how a chicken's egg develops over 21 days by cutting and assembling this wheel. It's perfect for 4-H or a classroom.Print the patterns on card stock. Students cut and color the parts, then assemble the wheel with

Subjects:

Science, Biology

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Printables

$3.95

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Chemistry: The Functional Group Board Game

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

A functional group is the portion of a molecule that gives it its properties and makes it recognizable as part of some group: alkenes, benzenes, aldehydes, and so on. This board game makes tiresome review into an easy exercise because when you have

Subjects:

Chemistry

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Flash Cards, Printables, Games

$6.95

Digital Download PDF (2.61 MB)

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Pop-up Japanese Bunraku Theater

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

The project creates a pop-up paper model of a Bunraku theater, with puppets in the front and black-dressed puppeteers behind them. Materials:pdf templates printed on heavy paper or card stockcolored pencilsscissorswhite glueX-acto knife or razor

Subjects:

Drama, Asian Studies

Grades:

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

Types:

Projects, Printables, Cultural Activities

$1.95

Digital Download PDF (2.26 MB)

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Nuclear War card game

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

This game is about radioactive decay, not military war with nuclear weapons! The most peace-loving people among us still need to know how alpha, beta and gamma particles behave and what "decay" actually means. This team card/board game steps

Subjects:

Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Physics

Grades:

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

Types:

GATE, Printables, Games

$2.95

Digital Download PDF (1.73 MB)

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ATP SYNTHASE PAPER MODEL to cut and assemble

By Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

Cut and assemble your own “working” model of ATP synthase, the last mechanism in the Electron Transport Chain (inside the mitochondria). ATP synthase puts the third phosphate (P) back onto ADP to turn it back into ATP, the energy molecule used by

Subjects:

Anatomy, Biology, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

$1.95

Digital Download PDF (8.87 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been teaching in a homeschool co-op for about 25 years. I've developed lots of curricula for chemistry, biology, earth sciences, anatomy, geography, and art. I have a BFA in fine art, which shapes everything I do: line drawings and cartoons illustrate my books, and there are many art projects included in the learning activities. Additionally, at my own website www.ellenjmchenry.com I offer video courses that use drawing to study world geography and anatomy. I invent a lot of games and puzzles which I hope to share with the TPT community.

MY TEACHING STYLE

Activity-based classroom, learning through art I often present material to middle school (and even younger) students that would be considered high school or even university level topics. With good explanations and interactive games and projects, students can learn far more than we think. They enjoy it more when they learn it at younger ages, too.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Yet to be added

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

BFA in Fine Art, Penn State, 1985

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Come to www.ellenjmchenry.com to see my full-scale books and video courses. Here at Teachers Pay Teachers, my sister Ruth Johnston is acting as marketing assistant.