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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The Library | Reading | Digital Inteactive Story | Find All the Secrets
A mysterious, atmospheric mix between a choose-your-own-adventure story and an escape room that runs on any device. Students type their name, explore branching paths through a school library that shouldn't exist An atmospheric, Choose Your Own Adventure/Escape Room hybrid with 10 hidden secrets and a secret ending. Works on any device. FULL DESCRIPTION:Your teacher asks you to return a book to the library at the end of the east hall. Simple — except you've been at this school for three years, an
5th - 8th
Reading, Short Stories
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)
A Small Observatory: Interactive Digital Constellation Maker | Create Star Art
Bring the wonder of the night sky into your classroom with A Small Observatory, a serene and highly interactive digital tool designed for quiet moments, creative inspiration, and science enrichment. This isn't just a video or a static image—it is a fully functional offline simulation. Students can interact with the star field to connect stars, create their own constellations, name them, and "save the sky" as a high-resolution image to their devices. Perfect for:The "Calm Down" Corner: Use this
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Classroom Community, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
The House - Area & Perimeter Math Mystery Game | Digital Escape Room | Grade 4-7
A self-contained math mystery: students measure every room in a dreamlike mystery house to uncover the rooms hidden from the floor plan. A digital math mystery, not a worksheet Your aunt left you a house with a floor plan that doesn't add up. The ground floor is 30 feet by 30 feet — 900 square feet — but the rooms shown only account for 564. Something is hidden. Students walk through the house room by room, measuring as they go. Each hidden door is locked behind a math panel that asks for dimen
4th - 7th
Applied Math, Measurement, Other (Math)
Would You Rather | Interactive Class Voting Game | SEL & Brain Break | K-5
320 classroom-ready questions across 9 categories — students vote by tapping either side of a split screen. No slides to click through, no PDF to print.Open on any device (Chromebook, tablet, smartboard, phone). Show a question, kids tap their choice, votes tally live. Tap "Next Question" to move on. That's it. ⭐ WHAT'S INSIDE ⭐ ✅ 320 age-appropriate questions across 9 categories ✅ 🤪 Silly · ⚡ Superpowers · ✨ Would You Be · 💛 Kind · 🧠 Thinking · 🍕 Food · 🐾 Animals · 📚 Classroom · 🗺️ Adve
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Classroom Community, Social Emotional Learning
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
Rhythm Lab: Digital Rhythm Practice System. Kodaly Takadimi and Gordon
Rhythm Lab — Interactive Rhythm Pattern GeneratorGive your students endless rhythm reading practice with this customizable, self-running digital tool! Rhythm Lab generates random rhythm patterns using the elements YOU choose, then plays them on loop with synchronized highlighting, built-in metronome, and audio tones — so students can see, hear, and speak the rhythms in real time. What's included: 10 rhythm elements (quarter note, eighth note pair, quarter rest, half note, sixteenth notes, triple
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Instrumental Music, Music
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
It's the BEST Crossword Generator! Digital/Printable Hybrid. 100 Games Included!
⭐ 100 crossword puzzles ready to play RIGHT NOW — plus a built-in generator to create your own from any vocabulary list. One file. Every subject. Every grade. STOP GOOGLING FOR CROSSWORDS. This tool has 100 pre-built puzzles organized by grade and subject, playable on a smartboard or any device; printable as worksheets. When you need a crossword for YOUR unit, type your words and clues, hit Generate, and you have a professional puzzle in seconds. 100 PRE-BUILT PUZZLES — CLICK AND PLAY:★ K-2 (20
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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
BEST BINGO Maker - Checks Winners Automatically! Free Games. Watch the Demo!
YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHECK OFF BINGO CARDS ANYMORE!EVEN WITHOUT THAT FEATURE THIS IS THE BEST BINGO GENERATOR!✏️ BUILD any set in secondsType your own terms (one per line) or paste a listLoad from 30+ preset word banks across math, ELA, science, social studies, and general topicsUpload your own images for picture bingo (great for early readers and ELL students)Save unlimited sets for reuse — they stay ready for next year🎟️ GENERATE unique printable cardsChoose 3×3, 4×4, or 5×5 gridsPrint 1 to 50 c
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The BEST Word Search Generator. Fast, Easy, Professional, Affordable. Watch DEMO
73 classroom-ready puzzles built in — plus a full custom generator so you can make unlimited new ones for any word list, any time. Built by a teacher, for teachers. ❦ WHAT'S INCLUDED ❦📚 73 Preloaded Puzzles spanning K–5 across six subject areas: Science (13): Weather, Five Senses, Plant Parts, Butterfly Life Cycle, Habitats, States of Matter, Solar System, Ecosystems, Rocks & Minerals, Energy, Body Systems, and moreELA (12): Sight Words, Parts of Speech, Fairy Tales, Punctuation, Figurative
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For All Subjects
Cipher Generator for Escape Rooms — Caesar, Pigpen, Atbash & More | Digital Tool
Stop hand-coding your escape room ciphers! This drag-and-drop digital tool lets you type any message and instantly encode it with six different cipher types — perfect for escape rooms, mystery activities, spy day, and puzzle stations. 6 Cipher Types Included: 🔐 Caesar Cipher — Shift letters forward or backward by any amount (adjustable!) 🔐 ROT13 — The classic shift-by-13, great for self-checking puzzles 🔐 Atbash — Reverse the alphabet (A↔Z, B↔Y) for a trickier challenge 🔐 A1Z26 Numbers —
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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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