Make Your Masterpiece!

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the TPT Sellers challenge is still on! this week was the "Make your Masterpiece" challenge. We needed to create a new product for our TPT store then swap with another user for some helpful edits. I decided to work on a Power Point notes presentation that I used for my Biology class last year that the students really enjoyed. I made it more student friendly and focused on placing photos and graphics that were from the public domain or easily credited. This is one of the first topics we get into at the beginning of the year and I thought it would be great to fix it up for this coming school year. Check out the product here.

Thanks to Angela from Fun in Fourth, Michelle from Mrs. Broseeau's Binder, and Kristina from Adventures in ISTEM, I received some great pointers for the product! (I swapped more than I had to! but it was worth it.) It really helped to have another set of eyes (or 3 lol) look at the product. They found things that I would have never noticed. Thank you to these lovely ladies for helping out ;) 

Keeping up with the Seller Challenge! thanks to these lovely ladies for hosting!

New Dreams

Welcome to post one of my new blog, Science Beans! I figured since I am participating in the TPT Seller Challenge hosted by a few other bloggers and I wanted to start an education blog, I feel that my first post should be about the "Dare to Dream" challenge 2. Here are my goals for the future:

Inspire other teachers: I am still considered a newbie in the teaching profession. In my 3 years of teaching (now going into my 4th) I've come across some veteran teachers who are amazing, and some who are uninterested in anything that relates to new strategies. I like being able to try new things in the classroom to keep everyone interested (including myself). I hope I can inspire my colleagues to want to try new resources or technology and feel excited about teaching again!

Start a blog: I have been wanting to start a blog about teaching and all the stuff I have been using in my classroom. There is only so much I can share with my husband before he goes insane! So here is to the beginning of my new blog.

Promote my store & create more resources: I created my TPT store in the summer of 2014 but I had been using it since 2013 when I started teaching. I noticed there were very few resources for  middle and high school science. So I decided that I wanted to share all of my own classroom goodies with other teachers. I hope to continue to add products to the store!

Inspire kids to love science & the environment: When I started teaching a few years ago, a lot of my students would come to me with their minds made up that they hated science. They felt there was no way I could change that, but I did! Showing them how excited and passionate I was about science and the environment made them want to know more. I hope I can continue to that in the classroom and beyond. 

Start a family: I am a newly wed (6 months in!) and I would love to start a family soon! I know people have their opinions "you should wait!" , "don't wait too long!", but I would love to have a little one running around :)