I am presently in my 23rd year of teaching. I have taught business and computer courses, as well as various computer literacy classes. I focus on Personal Finance and Life Skills in my class to provide the students with real-world applications. I am currently teaching Business Fundamentals and Marketing. I have also taught computers at the elementary level. I love to teach hands-on activities that engage the students in their self-learning.
The first days of school can be challenging. This packet contains 10 activities that can help fill in and keep students busy as teachers tend to those beginning of the year procedures. This packet contains: All About Me Bubble Name Cloud – Students use their name and design a cloud with their different interests. Autograph Game - students sign categories that pertain to them. There are 5 cards to have a variety if you would like; however, student can easily use the same card. Name Ladder – st
This is a resource packet full of fun, engaging math activities for the students to work through during the Christmas season. This packet is great to use to fill in those last days of school before the Christmas holiday break. It is a great way to help keep the students engaged in active learning. Answer Key Included
This packet includes:
- Sure Shopper Word Problems with Flyer
- The Community Church Fundraiser
- The Toy Connection Sales Discount Flyer
- The Christmas Craft Show
- Chri
This resource packet has worksheets for you to print and give to the students to help fill anytime you may need for Halloween. This is a great reinforcement of math skills such as percentages, sales taxes, and orders of operations. Answer Keys Included
Halloween Activities Included:
- Halloween Costume Sales Flyer (2 Versions)
- The Halloween Carnival Craft Show
- What's For Dinner? Math Riddle
- Ghost Highway Math Riddle
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Figuring sales tax and discounts are a life skill for all students. This packet is great to use as a supplement in your classroom to help students understand the concepts. This activity allows the students the opportunity to first figure sales tax and then go on a fictitious shopping spree and figure the total amount of money they have spent. There are worksheets for fashion and appliances included. Answer keys included.
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This activity is designed to help students develop the skills needed to achieve personal financial success. This resource contains activities for students to complete when reinforcing math concepts dealing with budgeting. Included are 2 different activities for the students to work through while they are trying to master the concept. They will also learn the implications of how to manage a budget that includes a savings component. The answer keys are included for easy assessment. This packet is
Author's Purpose Posters include 3 posters on Persuade, Inform and Entertain. They give a definition and examples for each category. Also included are worksheets that correspondent with the examples on the posters and 24 task cards. Answer keys included
Included in this resource:
- 3 Author's Purpose Posters
- Author's Purpose Graphic Organizer
- Author's Purpose Identification
- Author's Purpose Matching
- Author's Purpose - Sorting the Pieces of the Pie
- Author's Purpose Book Review
This is a great activity packet for the students to complete when learning about calculating interest. I have provided a Calculating Interest Overview handout for you to handout to the students when you are teaching them the concept of calculating interest. Also included are 2 activity worksheets for the students to work through while they are trying to master the interest concept. The answer keys are included for easy assessment.
This packet is great for reinforcement as well to help student
Poetry Unit PowerPoint with Student Booklet is a 60 page resource. This unit includes an animated PowerPoint for the teacher to use as a guide while discussing the different poetry types. The PowerPoint includes definitions and examples for each type. There is also a corresponding booklet for students to write notes with the examples provided. In addition, there is a page for the students to write their own original poems with space to draw an illustration for each.
Poem included in this re
Biography Templates include 10 different themes for your students to choose from. Each theme includes a section for an illustration or to paste a picture of the chosen person. The first page is a summary page for students to write the person's birthday, hometown, 3 facts, challenges, education, and what the person is famous for. Also included is a page for each theme to allow the students to write any additional information or essay about the person.
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This Easter-themed resource includes several activities for the kids to utilize during the Easter holiday.
Included are:
- Shopping Extravaganza Sales Flyer (17%)
- Shopping Extravaganza Sales Flyer (20%)
- Easter Egg Preparation Analyze Worksheet
- Broken Love Math Riddle(Percentages and Decimals)
- Rabbit Transportation Math Riddle(Order of Operations)
Answer Keys Included
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Solve the Place Value Mystery II guides the students on a number journey by allowing the students to plug in the numbers in the correct location with decimals to thousandths for more advanced concepts. Once the students figure out the number, the students will further engage the different forms by writing the standard form, base ten form, word form and expanded form of the mystery number. Ten worksheet with different numbers are included. This is a GREAT way for students to practice their plac
Great to use with Interest Surveys! The purpose of this lesson is for the students to learn the different career opportunities available and for them to start thinking of the career path they would like to take. This activity is a great way for students to visibly see the career clusters and apply which cluster best suites them. Also included is an activity for the students to complete using a cluster of grapes. This activity does not take long and it is a great way to reinforce the career c
This resource packet has worksheets for you to print and give to the students to help fill anytime you may need for Thanksgiving. This is a great reinforcement of math skills such as percentages, sales taxes, and orders of operations. Answer Keys Included
Included:
- Thanksgiving Sales Flyer (2 Versions)
- The Thanksgiving Craft Gala
- What Do Flowers Bring? Math Riddle
- Dinner "Wear"? Math Riddle
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Economics can be a hard concept for students to grasp. This is a mini lesson on economic indicators. This resource includes a short PowerPoint on indicators including inflation. Also included are assignments that go along with the PowerPoint for the students to complete. This resource contains engaging assignments to help them understand how a nation's performance is measured.
Topics Include:
- Labor Productivity
- GDP
- GNP
- The Economic/Business Cycle
- Standard of Living
- Unemployment
Comma Drama PowerPoint with Student Workbook is a 40+ page resource. This unit includes an animated PowerPoint (Microsoft 2010) for the teacher to use as a guide while discussing the different comma rules.
The PowerPoint includes each rule and examples for each on each slide. After the rules have been taught, there is a Review Time section with sentences and the comma flies in revealing the correct answer. There is also a corresponding booklet for students to practice and write their own s
This Language Arts Bundle contains animated PowerPoints and student workbooks for Figurative Language, Literary Genres, and Poetry.
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- Poetry Unit PowerPoint with Student Booklet
- Figurative Language and Literary Devices PowerPoint with Student Booklet
- Literary Genres with Student Booklet
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These Thanksgiving Dinner Word worksheets provide real world math applications for students to analyze. This resource includes 1 dinner sales flyer and 5 different worksheets with word problems in which students used the flyer. This resource uses the skills of adding, multiplying, decimals, and figuring percentages. Each worksheet provides multi-step problems to solve. Answer keys are included.
Great for reinforcement and early finishers!
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This is a bundle of my holiday math resources for middle school. This bundle contains math worksheets for each of the major holidays. These resources are GREAT to fill in those last few days before or after each holiday.
Included:
- Halloween Math for Middle School
- Thanksgiving Math for Middle School
- Christmas Math for Middle School
- Valentine’s Math for Middle School
- Easter Math for Middle School
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This summer-themed resource includes several activities for the kids to utilize any time to reinforce math skills with summer word problems and more.
Included are:
- Word Problems (Multi-Step)
- The Sure Shopper Spring Flyer with Word Problems
- Spectacular Summer Beach Sales Flyer (16%)
- Spectacular Summer Beach Sales Flyer (22%)
- The Sweet Treat Shop Analyze Worksheet
- Books Galore Riddle (Percentages and Decimals)
- Beach Tide Math Riddle(Order of Operations)
Answer Keys Included
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I am presently in my 23rd year of teaching. I have taught business and computer courses, as well as various computer literacy classes. I focus on Personal Finance and Life Skills in my class to provide the students with real-world applications. I am currently teaching Business Fundamentals and Marketing. I have also taught computers at the elementary level. I love to teach hands-on activities that engage the students in their self-learning.
Teaching style
I believe the old Chinese Proverb “Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” I think students learn best by doing; therefore, kinesthetic activities need to be implemented as much as possible. The more student independent activities that can be incorporated into the curriculum the better.
Awards & shining teacher moments
I am a member of several professional organizations and have attended a number of professional worksheets including NBEA, MBEA, SBEA, and ACTE. I am the 2019 Teacher of year in my school district. I am also a National Board Certified teacher.
My own education history
I am a graduate of The University of Southern Mississippi. I have a Master's Degree in Business Technology Education with a minor in Instructional Technology. I am an NBCT! I have been awarded Teacher of the Year and have served in a variety of other jobs in my school district.
Additional biographical information
I spend a number of hours each week formatting my own ideas on the lessons I teach. Planning and proper implementation are vital in the successful classroom.
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