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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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)
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)
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
25 STEM Challenges You Can Do Tomorrow
25 hands-on STEM challenges your students can build, test, and redesign — with simple materials and zero prep time. Every challenge follows the real engineering cycle: design, build, test, fail, redesign, test again. Each one includes step-by-step instructions, a teacher tip with practical classroom advice, and grade adaptations for K-5. Print it, hand it out, and let your students build. ⭐ WHAT'S INCLUDED ⭐ 25 complete STEM challenges with detailed instructions, teacher tips, and K-5 adaptation
Not Specific
Engineering, Other (Science), Physics
Design Your Own Country | Month-Long Class Project | Social Studies, ELA | 3-6
Students become nation-builders! In this month-long cross-curricular project, students design a fully realized fictional country from scratch — its geography, government, economy, culture, and identity. Over 20 school days, they'll draw detailed maps, write a constitution, design currency, create cultural traditions, and present their nation at a class Country Fair. This is not a quick activity — it's a deep, structured project that integrates social studies, ELA, math, and art across 4 weeks, b
3rd - 6th
Civics, Geography, Government
Start a Business | Month-Long Class Project | Entrepreneurship, Math, ELA, 3-6
Students become entrepreneurs! In this month-long cross-curricular project, students identify a real problem in their lives, design a product or service that solves it, build a complete business plan with real math, create a brand and marketing campaign, and deliver a Shark-Tank-style investor pitch to a panel of classmates and guest judges. This is not a quick activity — it's a deep, structured project that integrates financial literacy, persuasive writing and speaking, art and design, and crit
3rd - 6th
Applied Math, Other (Arts), Other (ELA)
25 Math and Logic Puzzles You Can Do Tomorrow
25 math and logic puzzles that make students think, argue, and forget they're doing math — with detailed teaching walkthroughs for every single one. These aren't worksheet problems. They're tangrams, strategy games, logic grids, probability experiments, and optimization puzzles — the kind of math that makes students lean forward instead of check out. Every puzzle includes step-by-step instructions with full teaching guidance, a teacher tip explaining the key mathematical insight, and grade adap
Not Specific
Applied Math, Mental Math, Other (Math)
Escape to Summer | 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
25 Early Finishers & Brain Breaks You Can Do Tomorrow
Every teacher knows the moment: a student finishes early, the class needs a reset, or you've got 10 unexpected minutes before lunch. These 25 activities are your answer. Each one includes step-by-step instructions, a teacher tip from real classroom experience, and grade adaptations for K-5. No copies to make, no materials to gather. Just open and teach. ⭐ WHAT'S INCLUDED ⭐ 25 complete activities with detailed instructions, teacher tips, and K-5 adaptations: 1. Story Starter Dice — Creative Writi
Not Specific
Classroom Community, Not Subject Specific, Social Emotional Learning
The Time Capsule — Printed Escape Room for Grades 4–6 . Print and go
Students at Oakfield Elementary have unearthed a sealed iron box buried long ago by the Class of 1920. A plaque reads: "OPEN BY FUTURE HANDS." Inside are seven handwritten clues — and only by solving all of them can your class crack the combination and discover what's waiting inside. This is a complete, ready-to-print escape room. No scissors, no laminator, no apps, no devices. Just print, hand out pencils, and go. WHAT'S INSIDE (16 pages):Vintage-styled cover and student intro letter "from the
3rd - 6th
Not Subject Specific
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About the store
Experience
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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