Together We L.E.A.R.N.!
I had to laugh when a teacher who attended one of my sessions at the SDE conference told me she wanted to be more like me and only give directions…
Teachers make a Difference!
Teachers make a difference! Nothing else needs to be said! Today I met some incredible teachers at the Staff Development for Educators Conference who are working hard to learn new…
Twas the Night Before SDE!
Twas the night before the SDE presentation, and all through the suite,the boxes and bags were stuffed and ready for all the teachers Jenny Sue would meet. The activities and experiments…
Scientists are Born in K!
Google the word STEM and just wait and see what you get! In a matter of .33 seconds, Google returned over 64,400,000 results. From STEM coalitions to STEM schools, STEM is…
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Box 1, 2, 3, and 4 ready to go! Don’t forget to mail them by June 25th. Do you think that box will hold together? What do I do it…
My Brain Hurts!
For those of you that saw the title of this post and began to panic, there is nothing medically wrong with me or my brain! My brain hurts because I…
Going from Novice to Expert in 20 Minutes
Back in February, I had the opportunity to model a lesson at Bayside Elementary School. The teacher had been working with her students on sound and wanted them to experience…
Science and Engineering
Back in November I wrote a blog about the excitement of launching marshmallows. Recently, though, I had a teacher ask me how do you turn a simply activity like that…
Sharing Science is an Adventure!
Click clack, click clack, squeak, squeak. Ommmmmm, Ommmmmm. Nothing like the sounds a train makes as it rolls down the tracks through fields, over rivers, and through small towns! Today…