To begin with, my blog entries are definitely running a bit behind I have a ton of information to post from various activities and lessons I completed in the past month. However, I am going to focus on my attendance at the National NSTA conference in San Antonio. This was my first science teacher’s conference. [...]
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NSTA National Conference- Summarized
April 16th, 2013 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, NSTA, STEM, Teacher Ideas, Teacher Workshop
NES Student Challenge: Inspired Science
March 26th, 2013 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, Project
Well we just got the results back. The kids did not get picked for the winning entry. But it was well worth the effort for them and me. Actually it has encouraged the students to investigate their topic a bit more. I enjoyed watching them get excited (even high school students can get excited once [...]
Lunar Egg Challenge…Final Drop- Part III
February 11th, 2013 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, Project, School Events, STEM
The final day of the project finally came and the whole school knew we were doing our egg drop. We had a lot of visitors the day of the drop. Each class would drop their landers, roll their rovers down a ramp, while measuring the distance the rover traveled. I think I forgot to [...]
Lunar Challenge…the Build- Part Two
February 10th, 2013 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, Project, STEM, Teacher Ideas
Okay here we go…students began to build their landers and rovers after brainstorming and sketching their ideas. After identifying the criteria and constraints, students went to step 3 and brainstormed possible solutions. Step 4 is where students began to design and sketch their projects. Once students selected their design, they then could build. Some interesting [...]
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Lunar Egg Challenge- Pre-Build Part One
February 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Honeywell, Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, Project, School Events, Space Camp
“The Engineering Design Process is a series of steps engineers use to guide them in problem solving. Engineers must ask a question, imagine a solution, plan a design, create that model, experiment and test that model, then take time to improve the original – all steps that are crucial to mission success at NASA. What [...]
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NASA Mars Workshop
January 27th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, Project, Teacher Workshop
Today, Saturday January 26th, started a bit late due to weather. The Mars Workshop being hosted at NC Museum of Natural Sciences was suppose to start at 10 am. Bad weather delayed the workshop until 11 am. Upon arrival we were given tons of information and materials for day. Brandon Hargis, from NASA Aerospace Education [...]
New Project
November 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Energy Sources, Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, Project
“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give” Winston Churchill As we head into break I’ve come to the conclusion that I would love to implement tons of teaching strategies and assessments, good intentions but too little time. I’ve had to change things around due to some [...]
A month later… and never busier!
September 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Discovery, Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, STEM
Its like the title states, a month later and I’m totally busy. Wouldn’t have it any other way though. Ton’s of fun these last couple of weeks. They actually make me appreciate my job even more. Teaching has become a love….no a passion lately. The summer has just infused so much energy in my lessons. [...]
Day 4: Last Day @ Langley
July 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, School Events, Space Camp, Teacher Workshop
The last day at our summer experience was full of Globe information. Jessica Taylor presented the different protocols used with the program. She reviewed some of the students opportunities available, such as student symposium, video competition and other events for students to get involved in. The day was filled with information on how to use [...]
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Day 3 Weather Balloon and CALIPSO
July 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, School Events, Teacher Workshop
Guest speaker Dr. Travis Knepp started the day talking about data collection and analysis. His talk addressed the proper way to collect data and analyze it. One of his main points was to “keep it simple”. Don’t complicate your data collection, because you want the results to be precise. A good rule to follow [...]
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