I have 12+ years experience teaching both middle and high school students in New York State. I have also done enrichment programs with elementary school students. I am certified in science and special education grades 5-12. I am also working on my administrator certification as I have recently graduated with my Master's in School Building Leadership from Mercy College.
Use this fun PowerPoint Jeopardy Game to review the important concepts of the forms of energy and energy transformations. This game is appropriate for intermediate level science students in grades 5 - 8. The answers are included in the PowerPoint presentation. This can be a great and fun review or assessment activity.
energy, transformation, light, heat, renewable, non-renewable, nuclear, geothermal, wind, solar, mechanical, kinetic, potential, stored, motion, fossil fuel, coal, oil, gas,
This 30+ page document is a collection of both multiple-choice and extended written response questions that require students to demonstrate their knowledge of geography and map interpretation. Latitude/longitude , directional compasses, and interpreting maps are a major focus of this question bank. Use this question bank to design your own graded do nows, quizzes, and tests for your intermediate classroom (grades 4 - 8).
latitude, longitude, geography, maps, climate, region, city, town, settl
Great fun filled lab activity for middle or high school Biology and Life science students. You can use brand name or generic "creme-filled cookies" for this lab. The students will love it as a hands-on, interactive way to learn about mitosis, meiosis, and the cell cycle. mitosis, meoisis, interphase, metaphase, anaphase, prophase, cytokinesis, centriole, chromosome, DNA, chromatin, nucleus, cell, cell division
Start the year off right by instructing and assessing your students' knowledge of the difference between independent and dependent variables. This worksheet will help you accomplish that goal in your middle or high school science class. There is a teacher answer key included.
dependent variable, independent variable, relationship, change, amount, experiment, investigate, determine, respond, manipulate
Use this resource to help your middle school math and science students learn and practice how to make line graphs as well as identify the independent and dependent variables. Move beyond bar graphs! There is a teacher key provided and eight graphs for practice.
line graph, plot points, x-axis, y-axis, independent variable, dependent variable
This document has over 80 pages of middle school life science questions (multiple choice and extended response/graphing). All questions are sorted by topic to make it simple to create your own assessments by copying and pasting the questions that you want to ask of your students. Topics covered include, ecology, cells, plants, human body systems, genetics/heredity, classification, graphing, nutrition, and experimental design.
ecology, cells, plants, human body systems, genetics/heredity, c
Looking for a resource to help your elementary students learn how to make and interpret graphs? This is a selection of science based questions that require students to create and interpret bar graphs, line graphs, and tables to practice these necessary skills. Use this question bank to make worksheets, quizzes, or assess a particular lesson or group of lessons during a K - 6 unit on graphing.
graph, line graph, bar graph, data, table, chart, information, interpret, read
Use this 78 page packet to guide you through a unit on human body systems your intermediate science lessons. There are 10 hands on lessons, with lesson plans, worksheets, helpful diagrams/pictures, a question bank, and answer keys.
organ, cell, tissue, body system, respiratory system, endocrine system, circulatory system, muscular system, skeletal system, nervous system, immune system
This is a 20 page document filled with multiple choice and extended response questions all about economics. These questions are appropriate for an intermediate (grades 4 - 8) classroom. Use this document to build your own graded do nows, quizzes, and tests.
money, taxes, goods, services, natural resources, conservation, needs, wants, economy, farm, rural, urban, factory, skilled labor, producer, supplier, consumer, export, import, importer, exporter, invention, transportation, trade, barter,
This 13 page document contains questions that you can use to assess your students knowledge of the civil rights and womens rights movements. There are both multiple choice and extended response questions.
suffrage, civil rights, 13th, 14th, 15th amendments, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal, Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr., integration, segregation, Rosa Parks, Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, NAACP, Langston Hughes
This worksheet is a fill in the blank Cloze activity that introduces and assesses your middle to high school students on the basics of the scientific method and measurement. There is a teacher answer key provided.
hypothesis, problem, question, variable, control, data, procedure, research, experiment, investigation, conclusion, constant, independent variable, dependent variable
Use this question bank to design your own tests, quizzes, graded do nows, and worksheets to teach your social studies lessons. There are both multiple choice and constructed response questions; many questions have diagrams and pictures.
industrial revolution, assembly line, cotton gin, Erie Canal, railroad, expansion, goods, services, imports, exports, raw materials, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, manufacturing, products, workers, employment, interchangeable parts, mass production, process, fac
5th - 9th
Other (Social Studies), Social Studies, U.S. History
Use this document that is filled with social studies questions about Native Americans to design your own tests, quizzes, and graded assignments. There are both multiple choice and extended response questions available in the document along with many images, diagrams, and pictures.
native americans, longhouses, artifacts, culture, tradition, Indian, tribes, Proclamation of 1763, land, French and Indian War, conflict, European exploration, land bridge, Bering Strait, buffalo, food source, Iroq
Use this 20 page question bank that contains multiple choice and constructed response questions all about immigration to design your own quizzes, tests, graded do nows, and worksheets.
immigration, statue of liberty, ethnic groups, population growth, ellis island, emma lazarus, immigrant, foreign born, country of origin, opportunity, persecution, religious freedom, census, national origin, increase, decrease, country
This is a 44+ page document designed to build all assessments in an Energy Unit from homework to quizzes to tests. There is enough variety in the questions to accomplish this. The questions are a blend of NY State Assessment questions that are organized by topic for ease of assessment creation. Simply select the questions you want when you want to build an assignment.
energy, potential, kinetic, mechanical, solar, wind, renewable, non-renewable, chemical, thermal, heat, light, sound, nuclea
This is 27 pages of multiple choice, extended response, short answer, graphing, and extension questions about forces and motion. They are well organized and there is a table of contents. There is an answer key. You can use this question bank to SELECT the questions that you want to give your students as you guide them through a unit of study on Forces and Motion at the intermediate level. Many of the questions are accompanied by diagrams and pictures. This document is very user friendly to
This is a question bank with multiple choice and extended response questions about the 1920's and Great Depression. Use this document to build your own tests, quizzes, and graded do nows.
depression, hooverville, shantytown, roaring 20s, new deal, stock market crash, black friday, buying on margin, unemployment, poverty, dust bowl, homeless
Use this worksheet to reinforce student understanding of the scientific method and all of the steps involved in it. There are 6 experiments listed but the steps of the experiment are out of order. Students must use a key to put the steps in the correct order and then they are challenged to design their own simple experiment. Teacher answer key is included.
question, hypothesis, prediction, procedure, experiment, data, research, conclusion
Use this worksheet to help struggling students or any student to reinforce the use of pictures/diagrams in science as they are related to vocabulary words for a unit on plants. A teacher answer key with definitions has been provided.
Paper chromatography, Seed, Plant rooting, Autotrophic organisms, Ecological succession, Photosynthetic activity setup, Mitosis, Plant cells, Photosynthesis, Cotyledon, Roots,
Fertilization, Life cycle of a plant, Flower
This is a collection of multiple choice and extended response questions about electricity. These questions are appropriate for assessment in a K - 6 classroom. The answers are provided for all questions in the teacher answer key. Topics covered include circuits, electricity, conductors, insulators, and energy transformations.
electricity, circuit, open, closed, conductor, insulator, energy transformation
4th - 6th
General Science, Physical Science, Physics
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Experience
I have 12+ years experience teaching both middle and high school students in New York State. I have also done enrichment programs with elementary school students. I am certified in science and special education grades 5-12. I am also working on my administrator certification as I have recently graduated with my Master's in School Building Leadership from Mercy College.
Teaching style
I like to combine the sentiments of Gardner's multiple intelligence theory with the constructivist theory of Twomey.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Member Golden Key National Honor Society
Graduated top 10% of high school class
Graduated top 10% of PSU
My own education history
Pennsylvania State University - 2001 B.S. in Psychology with Biological Sciences Option.
Manhattanville College - 2005 - M.A.T. for Science (5 - 9) and (7 - 12).
Certified Biology grades (5 - 12), Students with Disabilities (7 - 12)
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Member Orange County Chapter of NY State Archaeologial Association
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