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Welcome to Open The Gate. With over 10 years in the Gifted & Talented Classroom, it is my goal to offer you enrichment resources that add value to your classroom instruction and provide an opportunity for students to explore their creative and critical thinking!
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Exploration: Exoplanet
Exploration: Exoplanet (Full Preview Available)In this engaging cross-curricular project, your students will step into the role of astronomers and science fiction authors as they research a real exoplanet and then write an original sci-fi story set on that world. This exploration-based assignment blends NGSS-aligned science research with creative writing, critical thinking, and imagination. Students will analyze authentic scientific data—such as a planet’s size, orbit, temperature, and potential
3rd - 8th
Creative Writing, Earth Sciences, Writing
Bottle Buddy Biography Project - Innovators of Space
Are you studying space and looking for a culminating project for your students? This bottle buddy research project combines the use of technology and graphic design with a traditional research activity. This project can be differentiated for a variety of grade levels and allows students to thinking creatively and critically. Use the full preview to determine if this could be the perfect project for your students. Engage your students in this multi-week project that focuses on a variety of resea
3rd - 8th
Earth Sciences
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Experience
Welcome to Open The Gate. With over 10 years in the Gifted & Talented Classroom, it is my goal to offer you enrichment resources that add value to your classroom instruction and provide an opportunity for students to explore their creative and critical thinking!
Teaching style
Critical and Creative thinking are at the heart of my teaching. Engaging lessons and diving deep into the world of higher order thinking drives my instruction while staying true to Gifted Frameworks and State Standards.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Nominated School Based Teacher of the Year
Leadership Team Member
District Based Curriculum Designer
Pittsburgh Marathoner, 2019
My own education history
Westminster College - New Wilmington, Pennsylvania - '03 - B.Ed
Penn State Behrend - Erie, Pennsylvania - '05 - MBA
University of South Florida - St. Petersburg, Florida - '12 - M.Ed Leadership
Additional biographical information
While I LOVE teaching, my MAIN job is MOM to my two beautiful children, Johnny (10) and Josephine (7). My husband and I are both Pennsylvania transplants with our Northern Roots running deep in our veins. We love sunny Florida, living close to the beach, family workouts in our driveway, and enjoying all things outdoors (except tents, I don't enjoy tents).
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