Trailpost
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Kirkland, Washington, United States
About the store
Hi, I’m the creator behind Trailpost! I’m a teacher based in the Pacific Northwest with a background in both general education and music. I hold a B.A. in Education with a focus on Interdisciplinary Child Development from Western Washington University, but my path to the classroom was a bit unconventional!
Before teaching, I spent nine years as a software test engineer for Xbox, then pivoted to a career as a 1:1 behavior technician and early childhood educator. That unique combination of tech and child development completely shapes how I teach and design resources today. I love building tools that are practically "bug-proof" while remaining deeply centered on how kids actually learn and behave. (I even coded my own data-tracking tool, Waypoint, to make sure my students are actually growing while they play!)
I am also a huge history and literature nerd with a soft spot for authentic 19th-century Victorian aesthetics. In my literary resources, you will find high-quality, public-domain-inspired designs, so my Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes materials look like the authentic classics, free from modern movie adaptations! For my fellow music teachers, I also create resources grounded in solid pedagogy, incorporating Kodály methods for holistic music education.
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Pentatonic Composer for Elementary Music. Digital Interactive. Prints notation!
A single file composition sketchbook where students create their own pentatonic melodies, hear them played back, and export real sheet music. No accounts, no installs, works offline on any smartboard or tablet. Send a copy to your students and they can compose at home on a computer, tablet, even a phone! Why pentatonic? Every combination of do, re, mi, so, la sounds musical. There are no wrong notes. That means kindergartners can compose something beautiful on their first try, and fifth grader
K - 3rd
Instrumental Music, Music, Music Composition
MEGA Bundle - 4 Digital Math Escape Rooms | 3 Difficulty Levels Each
Math Escape Room MEGA Bundle | 4 Digital Escape Rooms | Fractions, Multiplication, Decimals, Geometry | 3 Difficulty Levels Each | Grades 3–6 Four immersive digital escape rooms, each with three built-in difficulty levels — that's 12 escape room experiences and 120 math challenges in one bundle. Every room features an original storyline, animated visual effects, built-in scoring, hints, a timer, and a secret ending for students who get a perfect score. Just download, open in any browser, and go.
3rd - 6th
Decimals, Fractions, Geometry
Ruins of the Lost Mathematician: Area, Perimeter Digital Escape Room - 3 Levels
Grades 3–6Description:Your students have entered the Ruins of the Lost Mathematician — an ancient temple built by a civilization that worshipped shapes and measurements. The temple has sealed itself shut, and the only way out is to solve 10 geometry challenges carved into stone tablets throughout the chambers, completing the Exit Glyph before time runs out. This fully digital escape room runs in any web browser — no prep, no printing, no logins, no Google Forms. Just open the file and go. Three
3rd - 6th
Basic Operations, Geometry, Mental Math
Also included in: MEGA Bundle - 4 Digital Math Escape Rooms | 3 Difficulty Levels Each
Encore! Singing Word Game for 2 Teams. Digital, Scores Automatically. Music Ed
Encore is a fast-moving whole-class singing game played on your smartboard. A word appears on screen and teams take turns singing a song that contains that word. Every song earns a point. When a team can't think of one, a new word is dealt and the other team goes first. How it works: Teams alternate turns. One student from the active team sings a few bars of any song that contains the word on screen — they must sing the part with the word in it, not just say the title. Hit "Sang one" to award th
3rd - 6th
Classroom Community, Music
Design a Theme Park | Month-Long Class Project | Math, Engineering, ELA, Art 3-6
Students design a complete theme park from the ground up! In this month-long cross-curricular project, students choose a unifying theme, create original rides with engineering blueprints, build a scaled park map, plan food stands and entertainment, calculate ticket pricing and daily revenue, and present their park at a Grand Reveal showcase. This is not a quick activity — it's a deep, structured project that integrates scale and measurement, forces and simple machines, persuasive and descriptive
3rd - 6th
Applied Math, Engineering, Other (ELA)
Classroom Restaurant | Month-Long Class Project | Math, ELA, Economics, Art 3-6
Students design and open their own restaurant from scratch! In this month-long cross-curricular project, students develop a restaurant concept and brand, write mouthwatering menu descriptions, calculate food costs and profit margins, plan staffing and customer service, pass a mock health inspection, and host a Grand Opening Day for the class. This is not a quick activity — it's a deep, structured project that integrates real-world math (decimals, percentages, budgeting), persuasive and descript
3rd - 6th
Applied Math, Economics , Other (ELA)
Invention Convention | Month-Long STEM Project | Engineering Design Process 3-6
Turn your classroom into an innovation lab! In this month-long STEM project, students follow the real engineering design process — Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test — to identify a genuine problem, invent a solution, build a working prototype, write a patent application, create marketing materials, and pitch their invention at a classroom Invention Convention. This isn't a one-day activity — it's a deep, authentic project that runs 20 school days across 4 weeks, building toward a scienc
3rd - 6th
Engineering, Family Consumer Sciences, General Science
Survivor Island | 5-Day Printable Research & Design Unit Grades 3-6 No Prep ELA
Transform your classroom into a tropical island where students become castaways facing real survival challenges. Over five thrilling days, your students will find water, build shelter, ration food, signal for rescue, and finally get saved — all while mastering essential math and ELA skills. Perfect for grades 3-6 | 30-45 minutes per day What's Included: ✅ Complete 5-day survival simulation with engaging storylines ✅ 23 ready-to-print pages including student activities, teacher guide & answer
3rd - 6th
Applied Math, Other (ELA), Writing
Design a National Park — Project-Based Learning Unit (Grades 4-6)
Turn your classroom into the U.S. Department of the Interior! In this standards-aligned PBL unit, students become conservation consultants tasked with researching a biome, designing a brand-new national park, and pitching it to Congress. It's real research, real science, real writing — with a final product they can hold up and be proud of. Driving Question: What makes a place worth protecting — and how do we convince others to protect it?WHAT'S INCLUDED (18-page printable packet):Complete teach
3rd - 6th
Other (ELA), Other (Social Studies)
City of 2075 — Project-Based Learning Unit (Grades 4-6)
It's the year 2075. The Bureau of Future Cities needs your students to design a brand-new city for 50,000 residents from the ground up — and back up every decision with math, science, and civic reasoning. This isn't a "dream city" coloring project. Students do the actual math: how many solar panels, how many acres of farmland, how many square feet per resident. Every design choice is a defensible trade-off. Driving Question: What does a city need to work for everyone — and how do we design one
3rd - 6th
Applied Math, Civics, Other (ELA)
Junior Architect | 5-Day Printable Research & Design Unit Grades 3-6 No Prep ELA
JUNIOR ARCHITECT - Evergreen City Design ProjectTurn your students into city planners and watch math come alive! 🏗️ Your students just got hired as the lead architect for a brand-new city. With an $10 million budget and 800 acres of land, they'll design Evergreen City from the ground up — applying real math skills to solve authentic problems. Perfect for grades 3-6 | 30-45 minutes per day What's Included: ✅ Complete 5-day city design project with professional architect vocabulary ✅ 21 print
3rd - 6th
Applied Math, Basic Operations, Other (ELA)
Museum Curator | 5-Day Printable Research & Design Unit | Grades 3-6 No Prep ELA
Your students just got hired as curators of the Wonder Hall Museum! In this 20-page printable pack, students research, design, and open their very own 5-exhibit museum across five days of engaging, standards-aligned activities. Perfect for a research and informational writing unit, end-of-year project, sub plans, morning work, literacy centers, gifted/enrichment time, or cross-curricular units. Print-and-go — no prep, no tech, no login. ⭐ WHAT STUDENTS DO🦕 Day 1 — The Collection: Learn what m
3rd - 6th
Applied Math, Other (ELA), Writing
Newsroom Week | 5-Day Printable Journalism Unit | Grades 3-6 | No Prep ELA
Turn your students into reporters for a week! In this 27-page printable pack, students become staff writers at The Daily Chronicle and produce their own newspaper front page across five days of engaging, standards-aligned activities. Perfect for a journalism unit, end-of-unit ELA project, sub plans, morning work, literacy centers, gifted/enrichment time, or indoor recess packets. Everything is print-and-go — no prep, no tech, no login. ⭐ WHAT STUDENTS DO✏️ Day 1 — Breaking News: Learn the 5 W
3rd - 6th
Other (ELA), Writing
The Museum of Ordinary Things — A Full-Day Curatorial Project PBL
Students bring ordinary objects — a paperclip, a sock, a bottle cap — and treat them as if they belonged in a museum. Formal plaques. Hushed docent tours. An exhibit opening for real visitors. One of the most serious writing exercises your students will ever do.The premise is simple and strange: each student brings one ordinary object — a paperclip, a sock, a bottle cap — and treats it as if it belonged in a museum. They write formal plaques. They design small exhibits. They rehearse docent tour
3rd - 6th
Not Subject Specific, Other (ELA)
The Listening Tower — Pentatonic Ear Training Digital Interactive Game
A beautifully illustrated, single-file ear-training game. Ten floors. Three lives. Pentatonic solfège and melodic contour — the two pillars of early Kodály ear work — woven into a climb to the sky. Your students climb the Listening Tower one floor at a time. On each floor, three soft ticks count them in, then the moon plays a short musical pattern. They pick the answer — either which solfège syllables they heard, or what shape the melody made. Pass the floor to advance. Miss, and a heart drai
2nd - 5th
Music
Silent Day (!!!) — A Guided, Full-Day SEL Communication Experiment.
Voice off. Brain on. A full school day where students communicate through writing, drawing, and gesture — not words. A surprising lesson in how much communication isn't language at all.Silent Day is a full school day where students communicate through writing, drawing, and gesture — not voice. The teacher mostly does the same. It sounds like a stunt. It's actually a deep exercise in empathy, attention, and the surprising fact that most of our communication isn't words. The frame matters. This is
2nd - 5th
Classroom Community, Not Subject Specific, Social Emotional Learning
Circus Day — A Full-Day Lesson plan for a Classroom or Outdoor Circus
Build an entire circus in a single school day. Skill stations, act rehearsal, a ringmaster, a real audience. Your classroom becomes the big top. Print, prep, go.On Circus Day, your classroom transforms. In the morning, students rotate through three skill stations — Juggling, Balance, and Clowning. In the afternoon, they form groups and develop acts. By the end of the day, a ringmaster announces a full show to an invited audience. Chaos with a shape. Here's what usually happens. The shy kid does
3rd - 6th
Not Subject Specific, Other (ELA)
Map the Playground — An End-of-Year Full-Day Outdoor Project for Sunny Weather
Give your students a full end-of-year day outside, surveying and mapping the playground they've known all year. They leave behind a mega-map next year's students will find and recognize. Print, prep, go.After testing is done and before the year closes, your students have energy to burn and not much to do with it. Map the Playground uses that energy. Student teams survey, draft, and assemble a scale-ish map of the school playground. Each team handles one zone — swings, field, blacktop, garden, sh
3rd - 6th
Applied Math, Measurement, Other (Arts)
Last Day Whodunit | End of Year Escape Room | Printable No-Prep Puzzle Activity
It's the last day of school — but someone locked the doors! Can your students solve 5 puzzles, crack the secret code, and ESCAPE TO SUMMER? This printable escape room is a no-prep, all-subject activity that works for ANY classroom — no specific content knowledge required. Students use critical thinking, logic, and teamwork to decode ciphers, complete number patterns, unscramble words, solve a logic grid, and crack a math-to-letter code. Each puzzle reveals one letter of a secret 5-letter code wo
3rd - 5th
Not Subject Specific
The Enchanted Equation: Decimals -Digital Math Escape Room-3 Difficulty Levels
Your students have wandered too deep into the Whispering Woods — and the ancient trees have sealed the path behind them. The only way out is to solve 10 decimal challenges hidden in enchanted clearings to power the Gate of Numbers and escape the forest. This fully digital escape room runs in any web browser — no prep, no printing, no logins, no Google Forms. Just open the file and go. Three difficulty levels built in — one file covers grades 3 through 6:Meadow (Grades 3–4): Reading and writing d
3rd - 6th
Applied Math, Mental Math, Place Value
Also included in: MEGA Bundle - 4 Digital Math Escape Rooms | 3 Difficulty Levels Each
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About the store
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Hi, I’m the creator behind Trailpost! I’m a teacher based in the Pacific Northwest with a background in both general education and music. I hold a B.A. in Education with a focus on Interdisciplinary Child Development from Western Washington University, but my path to the classroom was a bit unconventional!
Before teaching, I spent nine years as a software test engineer for Xbox, then pivoted to a career as a 1:1 behavior technician and early childhood educator. That unique combination of tech and child development completely shapes how I teach and design resources today. I love building tools that are practically "bug-proof" while remaining deeply centered on how kids actually learn and behave. (I even coded my own data-tracking tool, Waypoint, to make sure my students are actually growing while they play!)
I am also a huge history and literature nerd with a soft spot for authentic 19th-century Victorian aesthetics. In my literary resources, you will find high-quality, public-domain-inspired designs, so my Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes materials look like the authentic classics, free from modern movie adaptations! For my fellow music teachers, I also create resources grounded in solid pedagogy, incorporating Kodály methods for holistic music education.
Teaching style
In my classroom, I am all about gamification and interactive learning. If I can turn a math standard into a digital escape room or a history lesson into a browser-based simulator, I am going to do it. I believe that rigorous standards can absolutely be met through immersive play, and I strive to create resources that take the heavy lifting off the teacher's plate while keeping kids totally engaged.
I am also a huge history and literature nerd with a soft spot for authentic 19th-century Victorian aesthetics. In my literary resources, you will find high-quality, public-domain-inspired designs—so my Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes materials look like the authentic classics, free from modern movie adaptations! For my fellow music teachers, I also create resources grounded in solid pedagogy, incorporating Kodály methods and Curwen hand signs.
Whether you are looking for a tech-forward classroom simulator or a solid, beautifully designed lesson plan to get you through the week, I hope you find something here that makes your teaching day a little bit easier and a lot more fun!
My own education history
B.Ed Interdisciplinary Child Development
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