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Hi I'm Alyssa, the one-woman wizard behind Teaching in the Fast Lane! I strive to create engaging upper elementary, standards-based resources students love, while keeping rigor high and easing the load on teachers.
Currently I am an elementary school librarian in a district right outside Austin, TX. Before that, I taught fourth grade for six years in a suburban school district. Through it all I have worked to create meaningful learning experiences for my students that I can share with others.
My current passion is creating engaging resources that meet the needs of a diverse group of students all while making teachers' lives easier by saving them time. All of the resources in my store were created entirely by me.
I love to create resources that are cross-curricular, especially when I can integrate reading and writing into a content area.
With each resource that I create, I think about all the teachers and students that will use the resource and how it impacts them.
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Science Quick Writes - 4th Grade TEKS Science Review with Photo Quick Writes
Science Quick Writes for Other Grade Levels
3rd Grade Science Quick Writes
4th Grade Science Quick Writes
5th Grade Science Quick Writes
6th Grade Science Quick Writes
This product is designed to integrate writing into science within a fourth grade classroom.
There are four different ways to use the product included.
-The first is individual papers with photographs and word banks.
-The second is individual papers with just photographs
-The third is a PowerPoint to display the photograph and
4th
Basic Principles, General Science, Writing-Expository
CCSS
W.4.2
, W.4.10
, W.4.2a
+4
Also included in: Science Quick Writes Multi-Grade Bundle - Science Writing Connection
Science TicTacToe Choice Board Bundle
What student doesn't like choices? This TicTacToe board set has nine extension activities based on each science unit that will extend students' content knowledge while they work independently. This works very as an independent project for early finishers or can be used in conjunction with stations or small groups. Activities included are designed to hit on many levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and encourage creative thinking. The units included in this bundle are: PlantsLife CyclesEcosystemsAdaptation
3rd - 5th
Basic Principles, General Science, Science
Scientific Process TicTacToe Extension Activities
What student doesn't like choices? This TicTacToe board has nine extension activities based on the scientific process and science safety that will extend students' content knowledge while they work independently. This works very as an independent project for early finishers or can be used in conjunction with stations. Activities included are designed to hit on many levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and encourage creative thinking. I have used this in my classroom for students who need more structure, b
3rd - 6th
Basic Principles, General Science, Science
Also included in: Science TicTacToe Choice Board Bundle
Science Test Prep Digital Review - Test Smash
This product is a three-week review for the Texas science standardized test based on the 11 readiness standards set in the TEKS.* Each day the students will answer 11 questions, one on each of the standards using a Google Form. **This resource has now been updated to the streamlined TEKS.** This can be used throughout the year, or the three weeks leading up to the big test. The data that you gain from this review is very helpful in forming small groups to target the standards that students sti
5th
Basic Principles, General Science, Science
TEKS
SCIENCE.4.12.B
, SCIENCE.5.6.A
, SCIENCE.5.8.A
+8
Matter TicTacToe Choice Board Extension Activities
Phases of Matter Dice Simulation
What student doesn't like choices?
This TicTacToe board has nine extension activities based on matter and properties of matter that will extend students' content knowledge while they work independently. This works very as an independent project for early finishers or can be used in conjunction with stations. Activities included are designed to hit on many levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and encourage creative thinking.
I have used this in my classroom for students
3rd - 6th
Basic Principles, General Science, Science
Also included in: Science TicTacToe Choice Board Bundle
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About the store
Experience
Hi I'm Alyssa, the one-woman wizard behind Teaching in the Fast Lane! I strive to create engaging upper elementary, standards-based resources students love, while keeping rigor high and easing the load on teachers.
Currently I am an elementary school librarian in a district right outside Austin, TX. Before that, I taught fourth grade for six years in a suburban school district. Through it all I have worked to create meaningful learning experiences for my students that I can share with others.
My current passion is creating engaging resources that meet the needs of a diverse group of students all while making teachers' lives easier by saving them time. All of the resources in my store were created entirely by me.
I love to create resources that are cross-curricular, especially when I can integrate reading and writing into a content area.
With each resource that I create, I think about all the teachers and students that will use the resource and how it impacts them.
Teaching style
⭐In the school library I try to provide as much choice to students as possible. I employ a lot of stations and tictactoe style activities in which students can choose how they would like to show me what they have learned. Our school just got our first set of Ipads and I am anxious to incorporate these into our classroom as well.
⭐Cooperative learning and community building are the glue of the learning community and I will never give either up. I operate on the principles that every student wants to talk, move, and have fun so I try to incorporate as much of each into every day we have together.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Bachelors of Science in Elementary Education from Texas State University-San Marcos
Teacher Fellow Cohort 16
M.Ed. from Texas State University-San Marcos
Masters of Library Information Science - Texas Woman's University
School Leadership Team
Conference Presenter
My own education history
I attended Texas State University to earn my degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a teaching certificate in early childhood through fourth grade with an additional certification in English as a second language.
I enjoyed Texas State University so much that I immediately applied and was accepted into the Teacher Fellows program there to earn my masters. Accordingly, I was able to complete my first year of teaching while attending graduate courses and completing an action research project. I earned a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction in this program that also instilled in me the necessity for cooperative learning and community building in the classroom.
In 2020, I went back to school to earn my Masters in Library Information Science in order to become a school librarian.
Additional biographical information
When I am not working on my classroom I enjoy reading, traveling, binging on Netflix, and racing cars.
It is currently one of my goals to visit all fifty states and all seven continents, but I won't stop after reaching that goal.
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