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Michelle Williams is a veteran educator committed to finding new and exciting ways to reach the young minds she molds in her classroom each day.
Her creative educational concepts have helped ignite a fire in the minds of hundreds of the world’s most impressionable and vulnerable youth. Through her own classroom and through mentoring and advising new teachers, Michelle is dedicated to Fueling Great Minds.
Michelle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education and a Master of Science degree in curriculum, instruction and technology. She is certified to teach grades 1-8 in both Texas and Louisiana. She is also licensed to lead schools, though the classroom is where her heart remains. While she has taught language arts, social studies, science and math, her specialty is elementary math.
Throughout her career, Michelle has served in a variety of capacities. She has propelled students to new heights as a classroom teacher and has mentored new educators as a lead teacher and TAP mentor teacher and TAP master teacher. She’s also spearheaded the direction of instructional strategies at her schools as an instructional coach and department chair.
Michelle remains a committed educator and hopes to share her wealth of professional knowledge and experiences with teachers, administrators and parents through her original lesson plans and resources. She is The IgnitED Teacher.
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Making a Ten Strategy- Ten Frames and Number Bonds
Making a Ten is a 3 day lesson that allows students to practice with visuals for making ten then connecting the ten frames to number bonds. The last component of the 3 day lesson is to apply the making a ten strategy to add numbers that equal more than 10.
The product includes-
-lesson plan-
-black line masters of number bonds, ten frames with worksheet
- worksheets for adding and applying the making a ten strategy
2nd - 3rd
Basic Operations, Mental Math, Numbers
CCSS
2.NBT.B.5
, 3.NBT.A.2
Rounding Using Vertical Number Lines
This product is an individual lesson plan that targets rounding to the tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands and hundred thousands using vertical numbers lines. It includes:
-number lines for finding the halfway point
-blank vertical number line templates
-a complete lesson plan
-worksheets for independent practice
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4th - 7th
Numbers, Place Value
CCSS
4.NBT.A.3
Decimals- Using Pennies to Introduce Decimals
This product is an alternative way to introduce decimals to elementary students using the relationship of the penny to a dollar. It includes
-lesson plans objectives and essential questions
-decimal card sorts
-popsicle sticks with pennies to represent tenths
-Y graphic organizer to compare and contrast decimals and fractions
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3rd - 5th
Decimals, Math
Metric Conversion Using a T-Chart
This product is intended to help teachers introduce converting between units in the metric system using a t-chart. It includes:
-t-chart template
-dog bones to engage students in converting
-capacity, length, and mass t-chart templates
-lesson plan
-anchor chart of metric prefixes
3rd - 5th
Measurement
CCSS
4.MD.A.1
Factors or Multiples
This product contains activities that helps student distinguish between factors and multiples. It includes 2 graphic organizers Frayer models, and a Venn diagram. The students will make ice cream cones with multiple scoops of ice cream for multiples and create a bone yard factory of bones.
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4th - 6th
Basic Operations, Numbers
The Zebra Cake Challenge- Converting Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers
This product is a STEM math activity. It is great for introducing students to some of the engineering design components within a math context. The challenge focuses on unit fractions and converting a whole number into unit fractions which creates an improper fraction.Through problem solving the students partition the Zebra Cakes to demonstrate how improper fractions can be converted to mixed numbers.
This product includes:
- complete lesson plan with picture
- planning tips
- 2 differentiated c
4th - 5th
Fractions
CCSS
4.NF.B.3
, 4.NF.B.4
Decomposing Fractions to Multiply by a Whole Number
This product is a 4 day unit that is intended to teach students how to decompose fractions in more than one way using a tape diagram and a number bonds. It also teaches studenst how to connect the concept of multiplication to multiplying a fraction times a whole number. The product includes:
-3 lesson plans
-blackline masters and answer keys for each concepts taught
- 2 performance tasks
- pictures of anchor charts
4th - 6th
Fractions
CCSS
4.NF.B.3a
, 4.NF.B.3b
Making a Ten Bundle
Recomposing Numbers introduces students to the application of the making a ten strategy. The lessons and worksheet begin with the conceptual understanding of adding and taking away counters or cubers from a ten frame to create a friendly number to add.
The product includes-
-lesson plan with guiding questions and objective
-black line masters for addition practice with recomposing with ten frames
- worksheets for adding and applying the making a ten strategy
- game (Shake and Compose) for strugg
1st - 2nd
Mental Math, Numbers, Other (Math)
Recomposing Numbers To Add Using the Make A 10 Strategy
Recomposing Numbers introduces students to the application of the making a ten strategy. The lessons and worksheet begin with the conceptual understanding of adding and taking away counters or cubers from a ten frame to create a friendly number to add.
The product includes-
-lesson plan with guiding questions and objective
-black line masters for addition practice with recomposing with ten frames
- worksheets for adding and applying the making a ten strategy
- game (Shake and Compose) for strug
1st - 3rd
Basic Operations, Numbers
CCSS
1.NBT.C.4
, 1.OA.C.6
Converting Fractions to Decimals: Are You My Twin
Are You My Twin is a game that allows students to practice converting fractions to decimals and tenths to hundredths either in a small group or whole groups setting. The product includes:
-reproducible cards for converting tenths to hundredths using decimal grids
-reproducible cards for converting fractions to decimals (tenths and hundredths)
-recording sheets for small groups
12
4th - 5th
Decimals, Fractions
CCSS
4.NF.C.5
Number of the Day with Place Value, Number Bonds, and 10 More or Less
This product provides students who need practice with creating numbers 21-100 using decomposing, number bonds, place value, coin combinations, and 10 more or 10 less than a number.
This product can be used to differentiate morning work for struggling 2nd graders
It is aligned to the TEKS for 1st grade.
1st - 2nd
Basic Operations, Numbers, Place Value
Converting Fractions to Decimals Using Decimal Grids
This product supports the 5th and 7th grade Common Core State Standard for conceptually teaching converting terminating and repeating decimals. It includes models of decimals grids being divided by the fraction's denominator. It also explains the rationale as to why fractions repeat when converted to decimals. It includes
- Eighths
-Thirds
- Sixths
- Fourths
-Fifths
-Decimal grids and instructions for teaching the concepts
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5th - 7th
Decimals, Fractions
Multiplication: Equal Groups and Arrays
This product is intended to provide practice for creating equal groups and arrays as an introduction to multiplication. The product includes:
-problem solving
-worksheet for equal groups and arrays
-double bubble map for comparing and contrasting the 2 concepts
-matching cards for making equal groups
This product can also be used at the end of 2nd grade to introduce multiplication.
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3rd - 4th
Basic Operations, Numbers, Other (Math)
CCSS
3.OA.A.1
, 3.OA.A.3
Number of the Day with Rekenreks, Number Bonds and Ten Frames
This product provides students who need practice with composing and decomposing numbers using ten frames, number bonds, and rekenrecks for numbers 4 -20.
It is aligned to the TEKS for 1st grade.
K - 1st
Basic Operations, Place Value
CCSS
1.NBT.A.1
, 1.NBT.B.2
Subtraction- Regrouping with Money
This product provides an alternative approach to teaching regrouping to students other than using base ten blocks. The lesson includes
-subtraction worksheets
-blackline master of money
-place value mats with a picture of the money
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2nd - 3rd
Basic Operations, Math
Addition: Counting On
This product is intended to provide students in kindergarten and 1st grade with practice the addition strategy counting on using number line. It includes worksheets with the largest number identified by a star for students who struggle with identifying the largest number.
K - 1st
Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Numbers
CCSS
K.OA.A.5
, 1.OA.C.5
Rounding Whole Numbers Using Friendly Numbers
Rounding Numbers Using Friendly Numbers has 3 lessons that allow students to practice rounding numbers with number lines and line segments .
The product includes-
-3 lessons
-Differentiated problems for rounding to the nearest 10
-Problem solving task for estimating
-black line masters of vertical and horizontal number lines.
- worksheets for practicing rounding to the nearest ten and hundred
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3rd
Mental Math, Numbers, Other (Math)
CCSS
3.NBT.A.1
Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators Using Patterns
This products is a complete lesson plan that teaches students how to add fractions by generating equivalent fractions using the skip counting pattern of the numerator and denominator instead of the tradtional find the least common multiple
It includes:
-24 addition problems that are used with the Jigsaw collaborative structure
-essential question and objective
-worksheet and answer key for independent practice
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5th - 6th
Fractions, Math
Multiplication and Division Missing Numbers
This product contains a lesson plan and activity for using the relationship between multiplication and division to find missing numbers. It begins with a pictorial representation of the relationship between multiplication and division and ends with the Case of the Missing Number. The lesson is aligned to the 3rd grade Common Core Standard. This lesson can also be used for RTI for 4th and 5th grade students who need math intervention.
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3rd - 5th
Basic Operations
Fraction Frenzy I
This book is a collection of ready to use fraction lesson plans complete with blackline masters. The book includes all of the individual fraction lesson sold on my website in addition to
-Converting mixed numbers to improper fractions
-Simplifying fractions using color tiles (3 lessons)
-Recognizing equivalent fractions
-Adding Fractions
-Generating Equivalent Fractions
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4th - 6th
Fractions, Math
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About the store
Experience
Michelle Williams is a veteran educator committed to finding new and exciting ways to reach the young minds she molds in her classroom each day.
Her creative educational concepts have helped ignite a fire in the minds of hundreds of the world’s most impressionable and vulnerable youth. Through her own classroom and through mentoring and advising new teachers, Michelle is dedicated to Fueling Great Minds.
Michelle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education and a Master of Science degree in curriculum, instruction and technology. She is certified to teach grades 1-8 in both Texas and Louisiana. She is also licensed to lead schools, though the classroom is where her heart remains. While she has taught language arts, social studies, science and math, her specialty is elementary math.
Throughout her career, Michelle has served in a variety of capacities. She has propelled students to new heights as a classroom teacher and has mentored new educators as a lead teacher and TAP mentor teacher and TAP master teacher. She’s also spearheaded the direction of instructional strategies at her schools as an instructional coach and department chair.
Michelle remains a committed educator and hopes to share her wealth of professional knowledge and experiences with teachers, administrators and parents through her original lesson plans and resources. She is The IgnitED Teacher.
Teaching style
My teaching style follows concrete to abstract applications. My lessons are engaging and allows students to create a mental picture before moving to more abstract applications.
My own education history
I graduated from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with a B.S. in Elementary Education and a M.S. in Curriculum, Instruction and Technology.
Additional biographical information
I have taught in high need urban schools for most of my teaching career and all of my products can be used for SPED and all struggling or below grade level students.
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