Ruth S.
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Connecticut, United States
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I've been an elementary and middle school teacher for over 25 years in Connecticut and have served on ELA and history curricula committees. I was the Connecticut representative on the Weekly Reader National Teacher Advisory Board and appeared on ABC's "Good Morning, America", to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Weekly Reader. Working with the other state representatives and Weekly Reader's editorial, graphic arts and marketing departments, was an incredible experience!
For ten years, I was a NASA/Lockheed Martin Mission Systems "Student Signatures in Space" teacher. My students, Board of Ed, staff and others signed NASA posters that accompanied astronauts during space missions aboard the space shuttles. We also participated in NASA's/Lockheed Mission System's "Space Day" held at the Mall, in Washington, D.C. where my students had the amazing opportunity to speak with space experts, like John Glenn, Homer Hickum and others.
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Our Environment Earth Day Activities FREE
Design a hybrid car! Play an Environmental Match Game! Draw or paste pictures on a Recycle, Reduce, Reuse poster! Research animals and add the information to the animal cards!
PLEASE NOTE: This packet of activities has been updated as of March, 2016. . If you already download, I suggest you download it again. :)
These are FUN, educational and ready to print activities that cover a wide range of environmental issues!
This packet also includes great environmental and animals websites for kids
3rd - 6th
Environment, Writing
Climate Weather Match Up Card Games
Climate Weather Match Up Card Games
Your students will have fun playing Climate Weather Match Up Card Games!
Included are 138 cards in black and white. The Wild Cards are in color but print fine in black and white. The games are categorized EASY, HARDER AND HARDEST so that all students of different learning abilities can play.
Laminate the cards for future use and also make sets of them for your students. Assign the games as homework so that parents can have fun while helping their kids stu
4th - 8th
Environment, General Science, Science
BIOME ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS
Have fun researching biomes with your students! This packet contains 23 pages of worksheets that includes: charts to enter data of the biomes,a sheet that includes 60+ biome terms, research sheets that can be used as class or homework. Your students may also produce an exciting, informative documentary using other data information sheets. Have them create murals of biomes to display around your room. Any of these worksheets can be used as assessments. Websites of virtual tours of biomes are incl
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Environment, General Science, Science
PLANTS AND FLOWERS FLASHCARDS
These flashcards will help reinforce the definitions of the parts and functions of plants and flowers. Easy to cut out and laminate. Use as a practice tool to review for assessments. Assign five a night for homework. Play the matching game. Keep a set handy at a science center in your classroom.
Other worksheets and lessons...
Inventors Research Project grades 6-10 generic worksheets that can be used for any inventor.
Scientific Method
Isaac Newton Laws of Motion What better way to motivate stu
4th - 8th
Biology, Environment, Science
EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES
Looking for something different to do with your students on Earth Day, April 22nd?
These worksheets are designed so your students will have fun as they discuss ways to protect the environment, recycle and reuse.
Worksheets include: My design of Jane Yolens I am the Earth poem that has a frame where students paste their pictures, fill in the vowels of the poem, two Earth Day posters that I designed and hang in the classroom (8 1/2 inches by 11 inches), finding little words, designing Earth Day
3rd - 7th
Environment, Science
Brown Bag It! Healthy Foods
This is a great Earth Day or nutrition, healthy foods activity. Discuss healthy foods with your students and what choices they should make in order to fill up a bag lunch. Show them food labels and what to look for that's nutritional and what's not good to consume. Working in small groups they can make lists of foods by category, on their mini posters or draw pictures of them. Ask them to bring empty cereal boxes to school and compare the ingredients in them. Create a Brown Bag It word wall! The
3rd - 7th
Environment, Health
Our School is Going Green
To celebrate Earth Day, April 22nd, I'm giving away this FREE mini poster as a way to spread the word that kids need to learn about the environment and how important it is that they recycle, reuse and reduce! Many schools are going green!
Look for my Earth Day activity packet that has more Earth Day activities and Jane Yolens poem, I am the Earth, and the Earth is me.
I'm a teacher/author and offer Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, American History, Novel Packets, Grammar, Back to Scho
PreK - 6th
English Language Arts, Environment, Science
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About the store
Experience
I've been an elementary and middle school teacher for over 25 years in Connecticut and have served on ELA and history curricula committees. I was the Connecticut representative on the Weekly Reader National Teacher Advisory Board and appeared on ABC's "Good Morning, America", to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Weekly Reader. Working with the other state representatives and Weekly Reader's editorial, graphic arts and marketing departments, was an incredible experience!
For ten years, I was a NASA/Lockheed Martin Mission Systems "Student Signatures in Space" teacher. My students, Board of Ed, staff and others signed NASA posters that accompanied astronauts during space missions aboard the space shuttles. We also participated in NASA's/Lockheed Mission System's "Space Day" held at the Mall, in Washington, D.C. where my students had the amazing opportunity to speak with space experts, like John Glenn, Homer Hickum and others.
Teaching style
Learning must be a personal and exciting experience for students. I have fun teaching and believe that humor is an essential part of the classroom.
I'm a firm believer of Howard Gardner's "Multiple Intelligences" theory that all children have different strengths and learning styles. To accommodate my students, I always try to integrate art, music and hands on activities in my lessons whenever possible.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Yes, I've received awards and have been honored for various accomplishments over the years, but personally, the greatest honor is to teach and encourage children to "reach for the stars" in order for them to recognize their talents and potential.
My own education history
B.S., Western Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University, two Masters Degrees
Additional biographical information
For four years, I was a guest presenter at the NELMS (New England League of Middle Schools) convention in Providence, Rhode Island. I shared several of my innovative projects with K-12 educators, from New England, Canada and other countries.
I'm an avid writer and have written and edited a variety of educational articles, including a 250 page manuscript that will be printed in France next spring.
I was retained by NASA as an author, in 2009, and write articles about various space topics for K-12 levels based on the National Science Standards. The articles are published by NASA and sent to teachers and students around the world.
My current project is researching and writing a historical fiction novel about the Great Depression for kids, ages 9 - 14.
It's a pleasure to be able to share my original lesson plans with with other educators.
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