Hi! I'm Angela, a STEM teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada. I've been teaching for 20 years and love making useful, intentional STEM, technology and math resources to help make your life easier as a teacher!
Make Winter Holiday STEM fun, hands-on, and truly low-prep with these Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa STEM Challenge Task Cards. This set includes 20 different Winter Holiday-themed STEM/engineering challenges, plus print-and-go lesson plans, learning intentions, success criteria, and a student recording sheet—everything you need for engaging December STEM lessons. Most challenges can be completed using just paper, tape, and scissors, so you can run these builds with minimal prep and simpl
Make Halloween STEM fun, hands-on, and truly low-prep with these Halloween STEM Challenge Task Cards. This set includes 20 different Halloween-themed STEM/engineering challenges, plus print-and-go lesson plans, learning intentions, success criteria, and a student recording sheet—everything you need for engaging October STEM lessons. Most challenges can be completed using just paper, tape, and scissors, so you can run these builds with minimal prep and simple classroom materials. You can als
Bring hands-on Thanksgiving STEM fun to your classroom with these low-prep STEM challenge task cards. This set includes 20 different Thanksgiving-themed STEM/engineering challenges, plus print-and-go lesson plans, learning intentions, success criteria, and a student recording sheet—everything you need for engaging fall STEM lessons with minimal prep. Most challenges can be completed with just paper, tape, and scissors, making this resource perfect for busy teachers, tight budgets, and last-
Engage young engineers with a ready‑to‑use STEM Challenge Task Card pack. This teacher‑friendly kit saves planning time and inspires hands‑on creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. All STEM tasks in this pack have a summer theme such as vacations, packing, camping, beach, heat and the sun. They are perfect for using in June, July, and August and a great addition to your back-to-school activities. What’s included20 printable STEM challenge task cardsStudent recording sheet — structured
Engage young engineers with a ready‑to‑use STEM Challenge Task Card pack. This teacher‑friendly kit saves planning time and inspires hands‑on creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. All STEM tasks in this pack have a summer theme such as vacations, packing, camping, beach, heat and the sun. They are perfect for using in June, July, and August and a great addition to your back-to-school activities. What’s included20 printable STEM challenge task cardsStudent recording sheet — structured
Engage young engineers with a ready‑to‑use STEM Challenge Task Card pack. This teacher‑friendly kit saves planning time and inspires hands‑on creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. All STEM tasks in this pack have an end-of-year theme such as graduation, memory book, yearbook, and celebration. They are perfect for the month leading up to your end of school year. What’s included20 printable STEM challenge task cardsStudent recording sheet — structured space for drawings, notes, and ref
Engage young engineers with a ready‑to‑use STEM Challenge Task Card pack. This teacher‑friendly kit saves planning time and inspires hands‑on creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. All STEM tasks in this pack have a spring theme such as St. Patrick's day, rainbows, wind, rain, and flowers and are perfect for March, April and May. What’s included20 printable STEM challenge task cardsStudent recording sheet — structured space for drawings, notes, and reflections.Teacher’s guide — quick
Engage young engineers with a ready‑to‑use STEM Challenge Task Card pack. This teacher‑friendly kit saves planning time and inspires hands‑on creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. All STEM tasks in this pack have a Valentine's theme and are perfect for February. What’s included20 printable STEM challenge task cardsStudent recording sheet — structured space for drawings, notes, and reflections.Teacher’s guide — quick setup tips, suggestions for use.Completed lesson plans — step‑by‑ste
Make winter learning engaging and low-stress with this Winter STEM Challenge Task Card Pack. These low-prep STEM/engineering activities are perfect for January and February, indoor recess, or easy sub plans when you still want meaningful, hands-on learning. This pack includes 20 winter-themed STEM challenge task cards that focus on creativity, problem-solving, and the engineering design process. Most builds can be completed with simple materials like paper, tape, and scissors, making setup
Positive affirmations for kids are a great way to help encourage mindfulness and a growth mindset. Handwriting is also an important skill, especially after so many students have spent the year in hybrid or distance learning. These handwriting practice sheets help encourage positive thinking, mindfulness, and good penmanship. Handwriting is a skill that needs practice to improve and sustain. Students can continue to improve their social and emotional well being (SEL) with these positive affirmat
1st - 3rd
Character Education, Classroom Community, Handwriting
With these Boom Cards, your students practice their basic math facts in a fun and engaging digital activity format! On Boom Learning, you can assign specific math fact practice to students for exactly what they need! Students can focus on learning specific math facts to improve their math fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division math fact recall. These Boom Cards are a great tool to assign to your students for extra practice. Boom Cards are perfect for whole group practice
Give your students these positive affirmations for kids that they can practice while improving their handwriting skills. Are you worried that students' penmanship has suffered with distance learning? Cursive handwriting is a skill that needs practice to improve and sustain. Students can continue to improve their social and emotional well being (SEL) with these positive affirmations and practice their cursive writing at the same time! Included:50 positive affirmations in cursive writingSee the p
3rd - 6th
Character Education, Classroom Community, Handwriting
Students can practice identifying the properties of quadrilaterals using this self-correcting set of 12 Boom Cards online. Key terms included: parallel, adjacent, right angles, equal sides. Quadrilaterals included: square, rhombus, kite, trapezoid, right trapezoid, rectangle. Students will choose all shapes that apply to the given properties. About Boom CardsTired of printing, laminating, and cutting task cards? Looking for a tool that is self-grading, able to give students immediate feedback,
Students can practice solving problems using the Order of Operations using this self-correcting set of 16 Boom Cards online. All expressions include one set of parentheses. Answer choices include multiple choice, True/False, and written response. This is a great way to introduce or review using the operations in the correct order and build up to more advanced grouping symbols. Tired of printing, laminating, and cutting task cards? Looking for a tool that is self-grading, able to give students im
Students can practice solving problems using the Order of Operations using this self-correcting set of 16 Boom Cards online. All expressions include 3-4 numbers and 2-3 operations. Answer choices include multiple choice, True/False, and written response. This is a great way to introduce or review using the operations in the correct order when no parentheses are present. Tired of printing, laminating, and cutting task cards? Looking for a tool that is self-grading, able to give students immedia
Multiply whole numbers and decimals by powers of ten with this set of 30 Boom Cards! Answers are written response. Addresses the CCSS Standard: 5.NBT.A.2 - Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10. Select "Preview" to access a clickable link to a live preview of these Boom C
Students practice identifying division as a fraction with this set of 22 Boom Cards. Tasks include interpreting a division problem as a fraction or a mixed number, telling which two whole numbers the quotient will lie between, telling whether each quotient will be more or less than one, and solving a variety of word problems. Answer choices vary between multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank written responses. Get a Sneak PeekSelect "Preview" to access a clickable link to a live preview of these
Students practice adding and subtracting mixed numbers with unlike denominators. Cards include a mixture of addition and subtraction problems involving mixed numbers. Regrouping is necessary in some but not all problems and answers are presented in simplest form. These 22 interactive, online multiple choice task cards help students to practice adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators. Cards require students to choose 1 or more correct answers and require putting answers into s
Students will practice place value skills of numbers up to the millions place with this set of 24 cards. Answer choices include multiple choice, written response, and drag and drop. Skills covered: - Writing numbers from word form - Writing numbers from expanded form - Choosing the correct word form - Choosing the correct standard form - Comparing numbers - Finding a digit in the given place value position - Writing the value of an underlined digit Tired of printing, laminating, and cutting task
Online, playable 5th grade Order of Operations practice made easy using this set of 16 cards on Boom Learning! Answer choices include written response, multiple-choice, and true/false. Students will: ⭐ evaluate expressions ⭐ choose a correct expression for a given solution ⭐ determine whether several statements are true or false ⭐ determine which operation should be performed first when given a certain expression Benefits of Boom CardsTired of printing, laminating, and cutting task cards? Lookin
Hi! I'm Angela, a STEM teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada. I've been teaching for 20 years and love making useful, intentional STEM, technology and math resources to help make your life easier as a teacher!
Teaching style
As a STEM teacher, it's all about problem-solving and teamwork.
Awards & shining teacher moments
My own education history
I received a Bachelors Degree from the University of Nevada, Reno in Human Development and Family Studies. I also received my teaching certificate from UNR. I have my Masters Degree in Educational Technology from Lesley University.
Additional biographical information
I'm the mother of a high schooler and my husband is a Physical Education teacher. We love to swim, read, and play games. Our latest passion is taking cruises as a family before my daughter goes off to college!
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