Ms Agius
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
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Experienced science and makerspace teacher with 10 years of teaching at a high school in Los Angeles, California.
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Balancing Equations Powerpoint and Guided Notes
A nice introduction to balancing equations for beginners. I use this with my 9th graders in Environmental Engineering.
This package includes a PPT presentation file with simple, step by step animations as scaffolding (that can easily be uploaded and converted into Google Slides or Peardeck.
It also includes a Word document with guided notes for students (Google Docs convertible) -- as well as a screen shot of what you should set your margins to in Word so that the notes print on one sheet o
7th - 12th
Chemistry, Physical Science, Science
Reading and Annotation Guide: A Resource to Improve Reading Comprehension
This simple guide can be disseminated to all students as a resource to refer back to when reading texts.
This annotation guide includes a number of strategies to increase reading comprehension. Students who use this guide develop the necessary skills required to gain a deep understanding of what they read. Through continued use, the skills they gain become habit.
This guide has been uploaded as a word document that can easily be edited and revised to fit with any teaching subject.
7th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Science
Reading Analysis Assignment
This reading analysis assignment has been uploaded as a Word document that can be modified to fit your content area and/or a specific text of your choosing.
The reading analysis assignment should be used regularly and paired with the reading and annotation of a text of your choice, relating to your own content area.
Use of this analysis assignment will improve student metacognition by challenging them to recognize their thoughts as they read. For example, students are asked to connect to th
7th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Science
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About the store
Experience
Experienced science and makerspace teacher with 10 years of teaching at a high school in Los Angeles, California.
Teaching style
A hybrid teaching approach that integrates collaboration, interdisciplinary teamwork, student-driven inquiry, and project-based learning with occasional direct instruction. This method emphasizes the use of technology, hands-on interaction with diverse materials, and engagement in problem-solving, design, and build challenges—often within a makerspace environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and experiential learning.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Mary Roosevelt Honor Scholar
My own education history
I hold a B.A. in Urban Studies with a focus on Environmental Sustainability, and a M.A. in Teaching from the University of California, Irvine.
While attending U.C. Irvine I conducted research with the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs in the areas of climate change mitigation and adaptation projects in peacebuilding, as well as on climate change and emergency medicine.
My research is featured and published in Koenig and Schultz's Disaster Medicine: Comprehensive Principles and Practices.
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