ClassQuests
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
About the store
This is a place to find resources to engage students you might have found difficult to engage in the past. I create enrichment resources for students who need to extend their thinking, and inquiry-based projects for all learners. My heart lies in the gamification products that I've created, like Avatars, Random Events and Leaderboards, which are transformational in the classroom, helping you engage reluctant learners and gifted learners alike. All lesson-based products in my store are differentiated for various levels.
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Avatar Prop Pack
Avatar Background Pack – 100 Avatar Backgrounds for Gamified Classrooms or Classroom EconomiesReward your students for positive behaviour and bring your classroom to life with this collection of over 100 avatar props, perfect for gamified reward systems, job charts, class websites, or digital classroom displays. This pack is designed exclusively for use in Google Slides. Props are pngs on a transparent background in the Google Slide, where they can be copied and pasted into student slide shows
3rd - 9th
Classroom Community, Financial Literacy, School Counseling
Avatar Background Pack for Classroom Economy Behaviour Management System
Avatar Background Pack – 100 Avatar Backgrounds for Gamified Classrooms or Classroom EconomiesBring your classroom to life with this collection of over 100 avatar backgrounds, perfect for gamified reward systems, job charts, class websites, or digital classroom displays. This pack is designed exclusively for use in Google Slides. Backgrounds are set as a background on the Google Slide, where they can be copied and pasted into student slide shows. Avatars are sold in another product, or you can
3rd - 9th
Classroom Community, Financial Literacy, Other (Arts)
Street Style Avatars for any Classroom Economy
Street Style Avatar Pack – Over 100 Student Avatars for Gamified Classrooms or Classroom EconomiesBring your classroom to life with this collection of over 100 street fashion avatars, perfect for gamified reward systems, job charts, class websites, or digital classroom displays. This pack is designed exclusively for use in Google Slides. Avatars are png files without a background, and are arranged on Slides where they can be copied and pasted onto backgrounds. Backgrounds are sold in another p
3rd - 9th
Classroom Community, Financial Literacy, Other (Arts)
Math Inquiry into Residential Schools in Canada
I created this project to help my students learn about residential schools while using real-life math skills. Although this project is demanding, I was surprised how much they enjoyed doing it. They also recalled information the next day that they had learned while doing the math. I showed the project to a colleague who told me I should offer it on TPT because she had never seen anything like it, so I decided to share it for free. This is my first TPT offering. I highly recommend having stude
5th - 9th
Canadian History, Math, Social Studies
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About the store
Experience
This is a place to find resources to engage students you might have found difficult to engage in the past. I create enrichment resources for students who need to extend their thinking, and inquiry-based projects for all learners. My heart lies in the gamification products that I've created, like Avatars, Random Events and Leaderboards, which are transformational in the classroom, helping you engage reluctant learners and gifted learners alike. All lesson-based products in my store are differentiated for various levels.
Teaching style
I run a gamified classroom, which means that throughout the course of the year my students and I are running what some might compare to a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Students earn XP and GP for positive behaviours, and are fined GP for negative behaviours. They use GP to purchase real-world powers, such as a whole-class brain break or the use of a special chair or fidget. I see myself more as captain of a ship, navigating the fraught waters of life with a talented crew who are seeking the same destination as myself: the Ocean of Accomplishment via the Straight of Hard Work and up the Inlet of Having Fun.
Awards & shining teacher moments
I am the enrichment coordinator at my school, as well as the robotics coach. I won Coach of the Year award at the First Lego League Provincial Robotics Tournament in 2023.
My own education history
I have an undergraduate diploma in Pedagogical Sciences from the University of Amsterdam, a B.A with minors in English and visual arts from the University of the Fraser Valley and a B.Ed from the University of British Columbia.
Additional biographical information
I have been working as a teacher and developing my own teaching resources since 2008. I started out teaching English to international university students, and developed my own method for teaching grammar that has been used all over the world by various students and teachers. (See https://learning2grow.org/7-types-of-sentence-fragments/ ). Since becoming a grade 5 classroom teacher, I am known by my colleagues as a creative lesson planner who makes resources from scratch. I do love creating documents and I abhor "busy-work" worksheets, so I make resources that most consider to be "out of the box." My colleagues have been telling me for years that I should start selling my things on TpT. I finally took their advice!
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