About Lynda R. Williams

Practical Science Resources Created by an Experienced Science Educator

Teaching science can be exciting, but planning meaningful lessons, gathering materials, aligning standards, and integrating literacy can quickly become overwhelming.

I create ready-to-use science and STEM resources that help teachers provide engaging, standards-based instruction without spending hours planning everything themselves. My resources are designed to use affordable materials, develop science-thinking skills, and make it easier to integrate science with reading and writing.

Helping Teachers Make Science Instruction More Manageable

Teachers need science resources that are practical, meaningful, and realistic for busy classrooms.

That is why many of my science units include original informational text passages alongside hands-on investigations, data analysis, graphing, models, and evidence-based writing activities. These resources help teachers integrate science and ELA standards while giving students the background knowledge they need to understand scientific concepts.

My goal is to help teachers spend less time searching for materials and more time helping students observe, investigate, analyze evidence, and think like scientists.

How I Began Creating Science Curriculum

I began creating my own science curriculum early in my teaching career.

At the time, many of the science textbooks available to teachers were outdated—or classrooms did not have science textbooks at all. I used my science background to develop my own labs, interactive notebook inserts, reading passages, and classroom activities.

Over time, those individual activities grew into complete science units. I wrote original informational text passages and connected them to investigations, science practices, and standards-based learning.

Other teachers began asking to use the resources I had created. That was the beginning of Teaching Science with Lynda R. Williams.

My Teaching Experience and Qualifications

I have more than 34 years of experience in education and hold a K–12 teaching license.

My professional experience includes:

• Teaching in elementary classrooms
• Teaching Science Methods at two universities
• Working in Professional Teacher Education programs
• Creating science and STEM curriculum for teachers
• Developing resources aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards
• Developing resources aligned with the Utah SEEd Standards
• Supporting teachers with science practices, graph analysis, inquiry, phenomena, engineering design, and evidence-based reasoning

I earned a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction. My experience teaching both students and future teachers has helped me understand what effective science instruction looks like—and what teachers need to make that instruction manageable.

Research, Awards, and Professional Presentations

I conducted research on the use of interactive notebooks and presented my findings at several professional conferences.

That research received two awards:

• An award from the Center for Scholastic Inquiry
• An award from the Utah Valley University Engaged Learning Conference

In 2019, I was honored to receive a Faculty Excellence Award from Utah Valley University.

I have also presented at the Teachers Pay Teachers Annual Conference about creating standards-based educational resources.

My Approach to Teaching Science

I believe students learn science best when they actively participate in the practices of science.

Students need opportunities to:

• Make careful observations
• Ask meaningful questions
• Analyze graphs and data
• Plan and conduct investigations
• Build and revise models
• Support explanations with evidence
• Solve problems through engineering design
• Connect science concepts to real-world phenomena

A strong science resource should do more than provide facts. It should help students become curious, gather evidence, communicate their thinking, and develop a deeper understanding of the world around them.

Science and STEM Resources for Busy Teachers

Through Teaching Science with Lynda R. Williams, I create classroom resources for upper-elementary and middle school science teachers.

My resources include:

• Science phenomena activities
• STEM engineering challenges
• Science graph-analysis activities
• Science stations and task cards
• Informational text passages
• Interactive notebook activities
• Science review games
• Test-preparation resources
• Claim-Evidence-Reasoning activities
• State-specific and NGSS-aligned science resources

Each resource is designed to help teachers provide meaningful science instruction while reducing preparation time.

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