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In the course of my 18 year teaching career, I have had the opportunity and privilege to teach in many different settings and at many different grade levels. I started my career as a basic skills math teacher for grades 1-4, taught second grade for several years in an open classroom, and have also been a kindergarten, first, and third grade teacher in a regular classroom. I am currently the Gifted and Talented teacher for all third graders in my district, and provide push-in enrichment lessons (with a STEM focus) for 40 second and third grade homerooms each month. Outside of the classroom, I have freelanced for The Education Center (publishers of The Mailbox Magazine) for 18 years.
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Alphabet STEM A-Z for Pre-K Kindergarten 1st Grade Bundle
These "Little Hands...Big Ideas" STEM Challenges were designed especially for Pre-K, kindergarten, and Grade 1. Using everyday, easy to obtain materials, each challenge in this series will allow young learners to practice hands-on problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration...all while coinciding with the alphabet letter of the week! Each unit includes: NGSS standardsDetailed teacher directionsMaterials listHelpful hintsAny needed props/cutoutsDifferentiated drawing/writing student pag
PreK - 1st
Engineering
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
STEAM All Year Bundle - 40 Hands-On STEM Makerspace Challenges for Every Season
This pack has everything you need for a fun-filled, STEMtastic year! 40 hands-on, seasonal challenges for your maker space are included -- one for each week of the school year! -- 10 Fall tasks from "Fall Into STEAM!" -- 10 Winter tasks from "STEAM Is Cool!" -- 10 Spring tasks from "Spring Into STEAM!" -- 10 Summer tasks from "Summer is STEAMY!" Maker spaces are the perfect environment for allowing your students to explore, create, and engineer. If you don't have one in your school or classroom
1st - 6th
Engineering, Science
STEM STEAM Challenge: January New Year's Ball Edition
Watching the ball drop was easy. Getting it to balance up high...now that's tough! Help your students to start the new year right with this January STEM challenge!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differentiated for grades K-1 or 2-5)
-- Open-ended writing page for follow-up or related activities (differentiate
2nd - 6th
Engineering, Science
Also included in:Â 6 Months of STEAM: January - June Holidays & Highlights Money $aving Bundle
Animal Engineers Bundle - 6 Biomimicry STEM lessons!
This Animal Engineers Bundle includes 6 different opportunities for your students to learn a little more about nature's best builders, and try to copy their designs! Biomimicry is a fun way to show students that STEM occurs all around them!
Each lesson features a different animal, and consists of student and teacher directions, a STEM challenge, sample photos, a related research page, and an answer key.
Students will:
*Stop flowing water by creating a dam like a beaver
*Build various 2D and
2nd - 5th
Engineering, General Science
September STEM STEAM Challenge: First Day of Fall Edition
The first day of fall is a great day for some seasonal STEM! If you're looking for a fun activity to welcome autumn and engage your students, First day of Fall STEM is a low-prep, budget-friendly challenge they will surely enjoy! Cooler temperatures, falling leaves, and shorter days can only mean one thing...FALL! But in this activity, a fall is just what your students will want to avoid. To succeed, students will need to design a scarecrow that can stand on its own, even when the breeze blows
1st - 4th
Engineering, Science
Also included in:Â 6 Months of STEAM: July - December Holidays & Highlights Money $aving Bundle
Puzzlers Pack #1:100+ Brain Builders, Mind Teasers & Word Puzzles
Puzzlers is a collection of brain builders, mind teasers, and word puzzles to develop divergent thinking and encourage creativity. There are six different kinds of activities including word pictures, letter puzzles, riddles, three-peats, word clouds, and hink pinks.
For each type of puzzle, there is a student introduction page, a classroom reference poster, 6 student activity pages, and a "Create Your Own" page.
Puzzlers can be used in many different ways including:
• Enrichment for advanced
2nd - 8th
Patriotic STEM STEAM Challenge: Memorial Day Flag Day Edition
Whether it's Memorial Day, Flag Day, Fourth of July, or Veteran's Day, nothing says America like the U.S. Flag! In this low cost, easy prep, high engagement STEM challenge, students must design a free-standing flag pole for the Red, White, and Blue! Included in this pack are: -- Printable student challenge card -- Teacher materials list -- Pre-Activity guide -- Editable criteria, constraints, and materials list -- 2 options for Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
1st - 4th
Engineering, Science
Also included in:Â 6 Months of STEAM: January - June Holidays & Highlights Money $aving Bundle
March STEM STEAM Challenge: First Day of Spring Edition
Are you ready to HOP into spring? Using the listed materials, students will design the most supportive log for their frogs. How many frogs can fit on the log? It all depends on how well it's designed!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differentiated for grades K-1 or 2-5)
-- Open-ended writing page for follow-up o
K - 6th
Engineering, Science
Also included in:Â 6 Months of STEAM: January - June Holidays & Highlights Money $aving Bundle
April STEM STEAM Challenge: Earth Day Edition
Earth Day is the perfect day for reducing, reusing, recycling, and STEAM! The challenge? Build a "litter bug" out of litter. The bug must balance on 6 legs, and all legs must come from the thorax. All your students will need is a little litter and a lot of creativity!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differenti
K - 5th
Engineering, Science
Also included in:Â 6 Months of STEAM: January - June Holidays & Highlights Money $aving Bundle
SUPER Secret Agent STEM STEAM: 8 Complete Missions!
In this money-saving bundle, all 8 Secret Agent STEM activities are included! Your secret agents will need critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration to succeed! Each mission comes with its own 8-page "confidential file." The file contains all the information needed to walk your agents through the engineering design process. Make copies, gather easy-to-find, inexpensive materials, and you're ready to go! The eight missions in this bundle are: Secret Agent STEM STEAM Mission Traverse
2nd - 6th
Engineering
February STEM STEAM Challenge: Valentine's Day Edition
Looking for a way to sweeten your Valentine's Day celebration? This STEM challenge is budget friendly, engaging, low-prep, and lots of fun! Unlike the Tin Man, these Valentine's Day Robots have heart! In this "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" Challenge, your students need to make sure their hearts stay in one piece! Using the listed materials, students will create a protective design so that the lollipop hearts can be tossed high into the air and plunge back to the ground without a single crack.
1st - 4th
Engineering, Science
Also included in:Â 6 Months of STEAM: January - June Holidays & Highlights Money $aving Bundle
February STEM STEAM Challenge: Super Bowl Superbowl Football Edition
Kick off fall with Football STEM! This simple, but challenging STEM activity is perfect for any fall day or as a pre-Super Bowl celebration. Low cost materials, no prep, and simple set-up make this a great STEM challenge for any elementary grade! 42, 65, 91, HIKE! Are you ready for some football? In this challenge, students must construct an upright goal post. This is a great activity for introducing the math terms parallel and perpendicular, as well as a fun engineering activity for th
K - 5th
Engineering, Science
Also included in:Â 6 Months of STEAM: January - June Holidays & Highlights Money $aving Bundle
Money Saving Bundle! 80 Makerspace STEM STEAM Challenges for every season!
This bundle combines ALL of the seasonal Makerspace Challenges from Series 1 and Series 2! That's 80 tasks in all, 20 for each season! Check the feedback from these two resources, and you will see that teachers love them! Maker spaces are the perfect environment for allowing your students to explore, create, and engineer. If you don't have one in your school or classroom yet, now is the time to start! Included in this pack are: --The 5 W's of a Maker Space -- A printable Maker Space Supply Req
1st - 6th
Engineering
April STEM STEAM Challenge: Easter Edition
Jelly beans: they're colorful, they're delicious, and...they're fun to build with! The challenge? Build the tallest house. You provide a handful of jelly beans and some toothpicks, and your students will provide the creativity and imagination. Here's to sweet success!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differentia
1st - 6th
Engineering, Science
Also included in:Â 6 Months of STEAM: January - June Holidays & Highlights Money $aving Bundle
Think Outside the Box -- Game, Center, Brain Break, Bulletin Board (GATE/STEM)
The activities in this pack encourage "outside of the box" thinking with lots of laughter, creativity, and fun!
A key component in many STEM activities is the ability to repurpose an item to meet a need. Creative and divergent thinking can also be developed this way. Whether you are a kindergarten teacher or a middle school teacher, an academic support teacher or a gifted and talented teacher...your students need to develop these essential thinking skills.
The activities in this unit can b
K - 7th
July STEM STEAM Challenge: Summer Fun Edition
Can't bring the kids to the sunshine and sand? Bring the fun of the beach to them! The challenge? Build a card tower that can balance a beach ball! Much more challenging than it appears!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differentiated for grades K-1 or 2-5)
-- Open-ended writing page for follow-up or related acti
K - 5th
Engineering, Science
Also included in:Â 6 Months of STEAM: July - December Holidays & Highlights Money $aving Bundle
29 STEM STEAM Challenges for ALL Year! Holidays & Highlights Money Saving Bundle
No need to search each month for a new STEM activity. This bundle includes ALL 25 of my most popular holiday and seasonal STEAM activities at a HUGE savings. Individually, each challenge sells for $2. This year-long bundle is 50% off. That's a $29.00 discount! Each challenge comes with: -- Clear, concise student directions -- Materials list -- Pre-Activity organizer -- Engineering Design Process Flow Chart -- Post-Activity reflection page (2 differentiated pages for younger or older studen
1st - 6th
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
 +3
October STEM STEAM Challenge: Halloween Edition
This Halloween STEM lesson is engaging, challenging, and low cost! Students will love recreating Dr. Frankenstein's monster with simple, easy to obtain materials and lots of trying, modifying, and trying again! The head bone's connected to the neck bone. The neck bone's connected to the...wait! No it's not! In this challenge, students will need to construct a paper body for Frankenstein that is strong enough to support his heavy head! Included in this pack are: -- Printable student chall
1st - 4th
Engineering, Science
Also included in:Â 6 Months of STEAM: July - December Holidays & Highlights Money $aving Bundle
SUPER Puzzler Bundle! 108 pages of student brain builders and puzzles!
This file includes the best from all 3 of my Puzzler Packs! It is a collection of brain builders, mind teasers, and logic or word puzzles to develop divergent thinking and encourage creativity. There are 17 different kinds of activities! These include: -- word pictures --letter puzzles --three-peats --word clouds --hink pinks --headlines --anagrams --logic grids --sudoku --eyez & earz -- 6 letter stars -- brain bogglers -- logic lineup -- out of order -- word watchers -- like it or not -- o
3rd - 7th
The STEM Adventures of Backpack Jack -- Adventures 1-9
Introducing Backpack Jack's STEM STEAM adventures! This bundle includes 9 complete STEM lessons, 9 student STEM activity books, 9 engineering posters, and additional support materials and resources. Also attached are the Backpack Jack poster packs, exit tickets, and an introductory Jack lesson. Searching for STEM lessons to do with my students, I found that there were lots of STEM "activities" but very few intro-to-close all inclusive lesson plans. That's where the idea for Backpack Jack wa
1st - 5th
Engineering
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
 +3
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About the store
Experience
In the course of my 18 year teaching career, I have had the opportunity and privilege to teach in many different settings and at many different grade levels. I started my career as a basic skills math teacher for grades 1-4, taught second grade for several years in an open classroom, and have also been a kindergarten, first, and third grade teacher in a regular classroom. I am currently the Gifted and Talented teacher for all third graders in my district, and provide push-in enrichment lessons (with a STEM focus) for 40 second and third grade homerooms each month. Outside of the classroom, I have freelanced for The Education Center (publishers of The Mailbox Magazine) for 18 years.
Teaching style
In a word, my teaching style is interactive! I almost never use text books, and believe that children learn best when they DO.
Awards & shining teacher moments
My "shining teacher moments" are not in the honors and awards I have received, but in the lightbulb moments, notes of gratitude from parents, and visits from former students. All of the certificates and commendations in the world can never outshine those. :)
My own education history
I completed my Bachelors of Science Degree in Elementary Education and English from Gordon College. (Wenham, Massachusetts)
In spring of 2016, I also earned my Masters Degree in Gifted, Talented, and Creative Education from Arkansas State University.
Additional biographical information
In addition to being a teacher, I am the mom to two teens. (Feel free to pray for me!) They are the source of my greatest joy (and at times, my greatest frustration!) I also have a mini schnauzer who is smarter than any dog should be, and a husband who is the love of my life and also my colleague.
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