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I've worked in a variety of settings at a variety of grade levels. I started my career in preschool, where I worked for six years. I also taught 5th grade in an upper-middle class suburban community as well as an urban charter school that served a Muslim population. Since then, I have been in my current district, Ann Arbor. Here I taught 1st grade and 4th grade for 14 years before transitioning into a math coach position.
For 7 years, I also worked for The Princeton Review, a test preparation company. For The Princeton Review, I taught and tutored for the ACT, SAT, GMAT, GRE, and MCAT verbal tests. I trained prospective teachers for the ACT and GMAT. I also wrote content for their ACT, Early Edge, and GMAT materials.
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Magic School Bus Blows Its Top (Volcanoes/Plates) Differentiated Video Questions
Students have six questions to answer as they watch the episode "Magic School Bus Blows Its Top," which focuses on volcanoes and tectonic plates. In this episode,Ms. Frizzle presents the class with the missing piece to their gigantic Earth puzzle—an island that hasn't been discovered yet! Both Dorothy Ann and Carlos want to be the first to get to to name it, but when they reach the spot where it's supposed to be, all they see is the sea. It takes a run-in with an explosive underwater volcano to
3rd - 7th
Earth Sciences, General Science, Science
NGSS, TEKS, VA SOL
4-ESS1-1
, MS-ESS2-2
, 5-ESS2-1
+4
Also included in: 4th Grade NGSS Magic School Bus Video Worksheets Bundle (Differentiated)
Magic School Bus Rocks and Rolls (Water Erosion) Differentiated Video Questions
Students have six questions to answer as they watch the episode "Magic School Bus Rocks & Rolls." In this episode, to celebrate Walkerville's centennial, Ms. Frizzle's class sculpts a stone statue of its founding father, Captain Walker. As they add the finishing touches, it tumbles down the mountain. Ms. Frizzle turns the bus into a boulder and the class into rocks while bumping down the mountain in a desperate attempt to save the statue. (From Magic School Bus + Rides Again Wiki) The questi
2nd - 5th
Earth Sciences, General Science, Science
NGSS, TEKS, VA SOL
5-ESS2-1
, 2-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-1
+4
Also included in: 4th Grade NGSS Magic School Bus Video Worksheets Bundle (Differentiated)
Magic School Bus Wet All Over (Water Cycle) Differentiated Episode Questions
Students have seven questions to answer as they watch the episode "Magic School Bus Wet All Over." In this episode, the class turns into water and takes a wild ride through the water cycle—evaporating, condensing, raining, running downhill into a river, and then all over again. Arnold, wet and worried that they will be stuck in the water cycle forever, suggests they escape back to school by a detour to the reservoir. By traveling through the waterworks and town pipes, Arnold hopes they'll find t
3rd - 5th
Earth Sciences, Science
NGSS, TEKS, VA SOL
5-ESS2-1
, SCIENCE.3.6.C
, SCIENCE.4.10.A
+1
Magic School Bus Rides Again Battle for Rock Mountain (Rock Cycle) Worksheets
Students have seven questions to answer as they watch the episode "Magic School Bus Rides Again: The Battle for Rock Mountain," which focuses on the rock cycle. In this episode, Tim's inspiration for his new comic comes via a Frizzle-led trip across millions of years of geological history, as he tells the epic superhero story of Captain Rock Man (Arnold) vs Weatherman (Ralphie) in a battle to the finish! (From Magic School Bus + Rides Again Wiki) The questions are in chronological order and are
3rd - 8th
Earth Sciences, Science
NGSS, TEKS, VA SOL
MS-ESS2-1
, 5-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-1
+4
Magic School Bus Sees Stars (Stars & Our Sun) Differentiated Video Questions
Students have nine questions to answer as they watch the episode "Magic School Bus Sees Stars." In this episode, when the class sees Horace Scope on the Star Shopping Network, they decide to buy Dorothy Ann a real twinkling star for her birthday. Before doing so, they blast off in the bus to inspect the merchandise. They visit a young star, a middle-aged star, and decide that the third and last star is the one they want to buy. But when they give Horace their money, KABOOM!, the star explodes!
3rd - 5th
Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Science
NGSS, TEKS
5-ESS1-1
, SCIENCE.2.9.A
Magic School Bus: Kicks Up a Storm (Weather) Differentiated Episode Questions
Students have seven questions to answer as they watch the episode "Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm." In this episode, it's a hot and muggy summer day, and the heat has gone to Ralphie's head. Ms. Frizzle asks what makes the weather, then transforms the bus into a Weathermobile, and a wild ride through the skies gives Ralphie the opportunity to become Weatherman, the meteorological superhero of his dreams. (From Magic School Bus + Rides Again Wiki) The questions are in chronological order. Th
3rd - 5th
Earth Sciences, Science
NGSS, TEKS, VA SOL
5-ESS2-1
, SCIENCE.4.10.A
, 3.7.c
Magic School Bus Holiday Special (Recycling) Differentiated Video Questions
Students have six questions to answer as they watch the episode "Magic School Bus Holiday Special," which focuses on recycling. In this episode, it's the last day of school before the winter holidays, and Wanda plans to see The Nutcracker. But to her dismay, during a field trip to Ms. Frizzle's first cousin Murph's recycling center, the toy soldier she needs to get into the theater accidentally gets recycled into plastic pellets! When she wishes recycling never existed, Ms. Frizzle and the class
3rd - 5th
Earth Sciences, Science
NGSS, TEKS, VA SOL
5-ESS3-1
, SCIENCE.5.12.B
, SCIENCE.5.12.C
+2
Magic School Bus Gets Swamped (Habitat & Humans)Differentiated Episode Questions
Students have six questions to answer as they watch the episode "Magic School Bus Gets Swamped." In this episode, the debate is intense: Should Walkerville get rid of the swamp by the river and replace it with a fantastic new shopping mall or build the latter somewhere else? Carlos, representing his class, is given the thankless task of persuading the town council to keep the smelly old swamp. If he loses the debate, he'll do so to Arnold's pesky cousin, Janet! The class learns that the swamp is
2nd - 5th
Earth Sciences, General Science, Science
NGSS, TEKS, VA SOL
3-ESS3-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
+10
Also included in: 4th Grade NGSS Magic School Bus Video Worksheets Bundle (Differentiated)
Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space(Solar System) Differentiated Video Questions
Students have six questions to answer as they watch the episode "Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space." In this episode, Arnold's know-it-all cousin, Janet, drives the whole class crazy when she joins them on a field trip and gets them lost in space! But when the bus' navigational system breaks down and Ms. Frizzle and Liz get lost in the solar system, Janet may be the only one with enough knowledge to save everyone. (From Magic School Bus + Rides Again Wiki) The questions are in chronological
3rd - 6th
Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Science
NGSS, TEKS, VA SOL
MS-ESS1-3
, SCIENCE.3.9.B
, SCIENCE.7.9.A
+3
Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad Differentiated Video Questions
Students have seven questions to answer as they watch the episode "Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad." In this episode, it's accidental science project day, and the class has brought marvelously rotten entries from the back of their refrigerators. Later, when Ms. Frizzle shrinks the bus down to "take a closer look" at rotting options in an abandoned lot, the class discovers that there's more to rot than first meets the nose. (From Magic School Bus + Rides Again Wiki) The questions are in c
4th - 5th
Earth Sciences, General Science, Science
NGSS, TEKS, VA SOL
5-LS2-1
, SCIENCE.4.12.B
, SCIENCE.5.12.A
+3
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About the store
Experience
I've worked in a variety of settings at a variety of grade levels. I started my career in preschool, where I worked for six years. I also taught 5th grade in an upper-middle class suburban community as well as an urban charter school that served a Muslim population. Since then, I have been in my current district, Ann Arbor. Here I taught 1st grade and 4th grade for 14 years before transitioning into a math coach position.
For 7 years, I also worked for The Princeton Review, a test preparation company. For The Princeton Review, I taught and tutored for the ACT, SAT, GMAT, GRE, and MCAT verbal tests. I trained prospective teachers for the ACT and GMAT. I also wrote content for their ACT, Early Edge, and GMAT materials.
Teaching style
My focus is on small-group instruction with flexible groupings based on data. I try to incorporate authentic learning experiences and inquiry-based investigations.
My own education history
I attended undergraduate and graduate school at Michigan State University. My graduate degree is in Teaching and Curriculum with a concentration in instructional technology.
I have been through Math Recovery training for: AVMR 1, AVMR 2, Fractions, MRSp1 (Math Recovery Specialist 1).
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