Curriculum Solution Center
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Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
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My experiences in education vary and I have worn many hats in the field including teacher (PreK, Middle School, and long-term Elementary sub), parent educator, professional development provider, school consultant, anti-bullying specialist, handwriting specialist, grant writer, curriculum writer, and researcher. Right now I am the owner and director of Curriculum Solution Center where I focus on creating quality professional development for teachers as well as curriculum and assessment services for schools.
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Kindergarten Readiness Checklist EDITABLE! {Checklist Social, Academic, Motor}
This basic, simple checklist allows you to track major milestones for 4 year olds as they approach kindergarten. Can also be used for students entering kindergarten to assess current levels of development.
This file is provided in WORD so that you can EDIT the checklist as needed to meet your curriculum and student needs!
Skills Assessed:
•Social Interactions
•Independent Behaviors
•Fine Motor Abilities
•Gross Motor Abilities
•Name Recognition
•Name Writing
PreK - K
English Language Arts, Math
Sorting Placemats and Manipulatives Printables {Shapes, Colors, Sizes, FREE}
Product Description:
This printable pack gives you three different sorting placemats as well as printable templates that you can cut out manipulatives from. Printables are provided in both color and black and white.
Provide students with a set of manipulatives and all three sorting placemats. Have the students sort the manipulatives on each placemat, emphasizing that each placemat uses a different “sorting rule.” Students can sort by color, shape, or size.
The placemats make great center acti
PreK - K
Geometry, Math, Other (Math)
CCSS
K.G.A.1
, K.G.A.2
, K.G.A.3
+1
5 Minute Demonstrations about the Effects of Bullying {6 mini-lessons}
These 6 brief, engaging lessons allow students to make connections between an interactive demonstration and the real issues of bullying and aggression that they often confront in their daily lives.
The demonstration itself, and the connection (explanation) that are described in this document are designed to increase student awareness and serve as a springboard for fully and completely addressing bullying and aggression.
Topics Include:
~ How does bullying effect self-esteem?
~ How does gossi
3rd - 8th
Character Education, School Psychology
Shapes All Around Us: A Digital Photography Lesson for PreK - Kindergarten
This lesson is intended for PreK-Kindergarten students to build and expand upon their knowledge of shapes. Instead of the usual method of showing the class a shape, pointing out its attributes and finally naming the shape, this series of lessons allows students discover the attribute of shapes and classify them on their own.
Prior to start these activities, it is extremely helpful to read books by photographer Tana Hoban. These books focus on finding shapes in everyday settings.
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PreK - K
Geometry, Math, Visual Arts
Our Class Tree: A Year Long Portfolio Project {Science, Printing, Assessment}
This project has students draw a tree on the school property each month throughout the course of a year and write their name on the page. The drawings and handwriting are assessed monthly using the included progress log as a year long portfolio project.
In addition to the basic lesson plan are resources such as:
~ A parent introduction letter to the project
~ Assessment rubric
~ Post-assessment reflection
~ Additional tree-themed activities
~ Recommended picture books about trees.
Customer Ti
PreK - 1st
General Science, Handwriting, Other (Arts)
CCSS
W.K.2
, W.1.2
Behavior BINGO (Positive Behavior Support, Classroom Management, Incentive)
This product has a BINGO card full of positive behaviors that you wish students in your classroom would exhibit, including: push in a chair, raise your hand, say "please," follow a direction, clean up after yourself, be prepared for class, and more!
Use BINGO for individual students or as a whole class incentive where everyone works collaboratively to complete the card.
The following cards in included:
• Early Childhood
• Elementary
• Middle / High School
• Blank card
Instructions are includ
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For All Subjects
Empathy Building Games using Student Photos {Feelings, Emotions, Moods}
These fun, quick games can help students with developing emotional literacy (the ability to name emotions in myself and others) as a key stepping stone to developing empathy (an understanding of the thoughts, feelings, wants, and needs of others.
Included in this lesson are:
~ An overview of the development of empathy in children
~ Instructions on how to take photos of students portraying different emotions
~ Descriptions of 5 different games that you can play with students to build emotional
PreK - 1st
Character Education
Creating Inquiry-Based Science Learning Centers (Planning Tools)
An effective science learning center is not simply a touch table or a pre-packaged kit. It an experience, an opportunity, a jumping off point for children to make sense of something and learn. This product walks you through how to create a science learning center that drives children to ask questions and then seek their own answers. Advice is also included for journaling with young chidlren.
This product includes the following:
- Brief overview of inquiry-based learning and natural inquiry
- W
PreK - 1st
Basic Principles, General Science, Science
Developing High Quality Professional Development Topics {PD, in-services}
We’ve all attended boring teacher in-services. It’s an unfortunate expectation in education that professional development is tedious, boring, and so full of theory and impracticality that there is no way you will ever use the information that is presented – that is, assuming you stayed awake through it all.
These planning tools are designed to help a professional development provider craft a workshop that is relevant, engaging, and useful for the attendee. Use one, or use them all to help frame
Adult Education, Higher Education
Snowflake Bentley: Mini-Unit Math, ELA, Science, and Art
Students get the opportunity to read about Wilson A. Bentley, the man who
pioneered microscopic photography and studied snowflakes. Students explore his
photography, and learn about snowflakes through this mini-unit idea guide infusing literature (nonfiction and biography), science, math, and art activities.
PreK - 3rd
General Science, Geometry, Informational Text
CCSS
K.G.B.4
, 1.G.A.1
, 2.G.A.1
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Game On! 24 Board Games to Teach Early Math Skills {Centers, File Folder Games}
This product includes 5 printable game board templates in addition to instructions for 24 simple board games that teach the following skills:
• Counting On / Moving On
• 1-to-1 correspondence
• Color Identification
• Subitizing
• Numeral Identification
• Addition
• Subtraction
• Inequalities
• Probability
• Geometry
• Algebraic Thinking
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PreK - 2nd
Basic Operations, Math, Numbers
CCSS
K.CC.A.1
, K.CC.A.2
, K.CC.A.3
+18
Random Group Assignment Cards {Cooperative Learning, Ice Breakers, Group Work}
Distribute these cards among your students and then call out a type of symbol on the card to instantly break students into randomized groupings. Each card has 7 different attributes include color, shape, letter, number, and more for multiple group options on each card. Great for ice breakers, cooperative learning, group assignments, discussion circles and more!
This product includes:
• Instructions for printing and using the group cards
• Tips and suggestions
• Printable sheets for 100 differe
Not Specific
For All Subjects
Demolition STEM {Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics; Project; Center}
Usually STEM projects are all about students building and creating to show a finished product. Here, the goal is all about how that creation comes tumbling down! Explore the science of demolition and then test different techniques in destruction.
The best STEM is open ended and student led, so after introducing the materials, you can let the students design their own experiments, or you can use the materials in a more structured way. Included in this project pack are:
• Engineering design proc
3rd - 6th
Engineering, Physics, Science
Positive Behavior Support: Introduction with Planning Tools {Incentive Plan}
Do you want to implement a positive behavior support or incentive program in your classroom but you don't know where to start?
This informational resource provides a brief overview of the basic tenets of Positive Behavior Support along with some planning tools that you are able to type directly into with the included PDF forms.
Topics Covered:
• What is positive behavior support?
• What is positive reinforcement?
• Is PBS bribing children?
• Is PBS treating children like animals?
• Does PBS ma
Not Specific
Character Education, For All Subjects
Easy Observation Checkbrics: Student Milestone Tracking Tools EDITABLE!
In Great Performances: Creating Classroom Based-Assessment Tasks (ASCD, 1998), Lewin and Shoemaker describe what they call, “The World’s First Checkbric.” It’s a scoring system that uses a checklist to note that all elements of a student’s work are completed, but combines values assigned to leveled descriptors as in a rubric.
This product takes the idea of a checkbric and turns it into an essential tool for recording observational data for the early childhood and primary classroom.
A checkbr
PreK - 3rd
For All Subjects
Multi-Skill Center Planners {Differentiation, Scaffold}
Not all children come equipped with equal abilities. Many times, educators have students in their classrooms with skill levels that can vary two or even more grade levels. In family child care settings, or afterschool programs children may be several years apart but exploring the same topic. Careful planning can allow you to outline scaffolded instruction and layer objectives and competencies. This planner allows you to break down a center topic with objectives, materials, and activities on th
Not Specific
For All Subjects
Science and Inquiry Center Printables: Learning Center Record and Hypothesis
This product includes three printables that can be used in an science or inquiry learning center within the early childhood or primary grades classrooms.
Information sheets on helping children develop inquiry questions and writing hypotheses are also included.
Printables included are:
• Learning Center Record (drawing)
• Learning Center Record (writing)
• My Hypothesis (writing)
PreK - 3rd
Basic Principles, General Science, Science
Webinars: Beyond Voice over Slideshows - Planning Tools for PD Providers
Webinars are becoming a common way for teachers to earn professional development training hours in a convenient setting. Whether it is viewing a session on an educational technique during naptime, a planning period, before / after school, or sitting in your pajamas in front of your home computer, the convenience of webinars can’t be beat – especially when they are recorded and can be viewed on-demand at the viewer’s leisure. In this resource, we are going to be focusing on live webinars.
The li
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For All Subjects
Snow Science
Students conduct an observation experiment where they compare how quickly snow melts with and without an additive to snow with sea salt and snow with magnesium chloride pellets (snow melt / rock salt). This lesson uses and defines the following vocabulary in the scientific method: control, variable, time interval, hypothesis, observation, and data.
K - 3rd
Environment, General Science, Science
CCSS
2.MD.D.9
, 2.MD.D.10
, 3.MD.A.1
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100 Ideas for the 100th Day of School
A list of 100 ideas to help boost your 100th day celebration!
Activities are in the following areas:
• Classroom Decorations / Attire
• Gross Motor and Games
• Art
• Snack
• Science
• Mathematics
• English / Language Arts
• Social Studies / Community
• Books to Read
• Apps / Ebooks / Online Games
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PreK - 5th
Classroom Community, For All Subjects
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About the store
Experience
My experiences in education vary and I have worn many hats in the field including teacher (PreK, Middle School, and long-term Elementary sub), parent educator, professional development provider, school consultant, anti-bullying specialist, handwriting specialist, grant writer, curriculum writer, and researcher. Right now I am the owner and director of Curriculum Solution Center where I focus on creating quality professional development for teachers as well as curriculum and assessment services for schools.
Teaching style
Constructivist, experiential, inquiry based, thematic, project based
Awards & shining teacher moments
Gannon University Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Education
My own education history
M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction (Gannon University),
B.A. Elementary Education (Mercyhurst University)
Childcare Administration - Director's Credential (Point Park University)
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