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✨ Welcome to On-Task Teacher Tools!
With 18 years in education and experience teaching across grade levels and continents, I design resources to help you teach smarter, not harder. I'm a middle school science teacher, STEM enthusiast, and proud military spouse who has taught in a variety of classrooms—from elementary to middle school science—in several states and countries.
At On-Task Teacher Tools, you'll find thoughtfully designed lessons that boost engagement, support classroom management, and make learning stick. Whether it's a science CER with a twist of storytelling or a ready-to-go activity for busy days, each resource is crafted to be both effective and efficient—so you can stay on task and help your students thrive.
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Elementary Science Reading Comprehension Skills Bundle
Help your students improve nonfiction reading comprehension skills in your science lessons with this reading passage set! The resource includes three nonfiction texts, lessons for summarizing, analyzing evidence, and making inferences, and writing graphic organizers. Supports NGSS Standards for Earth Science, Chemistry, and Life Science. This elementary science bundle includes a set of reading, math, and science activities. This resource includes 17-pages of resources in pdf format: Earth Scie
5th - 6th
Math, Science, Writing
CCSS, NGSS
W.5.8
, CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.8
+8
Elementary Science Reading Passage and Questions with Graphing Activity
This resource is a non-fiction writing set connected to NGSS Elementary Science Standards-Earth's Systems- summarizing. This set includes instructions for summarizing a non-fiction text that your students can use on any non-fiction text. The resource is a cross-curricular resource that includes learning tasks for elementary math, language arts, and science. This resource includes: A 6-page pdf: A 1-page newspaper article about a fishing captain who is considering towing an iceberg to his town
4th - 7th
Close Reading, Earth Sciences, Math
CCSS, NGSS, TEKS
W.5.8
, MP4
, 5-ESS2-2
+2
Also included in: Elementary Science Reading Comprehension Skills Bundle
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✨ Welcome to On-Task Teacher Tools!
With 18 years in education and experience teaching across grade levels and continents, I design resources to help you teach smarter, not harder. I'm a middle school science teacher, STEM enthusiast, and proud military spouse who has taught in a variety of classrooms—from elementary to middle school science—in several states and countries.
At On-Task Teacher Tools, you'll find thoughtfully designed lessons that boost engagement, support classroom management, and make learning stick. Whether it's a science CER with a twist of storytelling or a ready-to-go activity for busy days, each resource is crafted to be both effective and efficient—so you can stay on task and help your students thrive.
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⭐ Teaching Style
At On-Task Teacher Tools, I specialize in creating engaging, cross-curricular resources that help maximize instructional time and improve classroom behavior. My lessons are designed to reduce chaos, increase student focus, and support smooth daily routines—because when expectations are clear, more learning happens.
Whether you're looking for behavior management systems, bell ringers, or hands-on science and STEM activities, my resources make it easy to integrate academic content with real-world engagement. Every tool is designed to hook your students quickly—and help you keep them on-task with less stress and more success.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Once, a reluctant reader hid a copy of the Lightning Thief in his math book. This was after months of teaching and relationship-building, and I couldn't have been more proud of the student!
My own education history
I have a BA in Art Education, a BS in Chemistry, and a Master of Arts in Teaching.
Additional biographical information
I am a mom to a college student and a wife to an active duty service member. We also have a very active cat and a derpy Golden Retriever. I've lived in California, Idaho, Alaska and Germany among other locations.
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