Well Saturday (April 20th) was the VirtCon with Discovery. We hosted a F2F event our Cardinal Gibbons HS, we had a small crowd. But, great collaboration and sharing of resources occurred. We started the day with a great talk by Suzie Boss “Connecting Classroom and Community with PBL”. Her talk included ideas from other teachers [...]
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Discovery Spring VirtCon Live
April 21st, 2013 · No Comments · Discovery, STEM, Teacher Ideas, Teacher Workshop, Web 2.0 Tool
NSTA National Conference- Summarized
April 16th, 2013 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, NSTA, STEM, Teacher Ideas, Teacher Workshop
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. [...]
Discovery Spring VirtCon
March 28th, 2013 · No Comments · Discovery, STEM, Teacher Workshop, Web 2.0 Tool
Well the word is a go for the Spring VirtCon. Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, NC, will be hosting a F2F event. We have already started getting our plans together. You can sign up for the event at Gibbons by completing the online registration and checking the box for Gibbons. We have a form [...]
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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NC Catholic Conference…. Greensboro
October 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Discovery, Honeywell, NASA, NASA explorers school, Space Camp, STEM, Web 2.0 Tool
After talking Angie Melcher into doing the conference with me I came to realize there was a lot of information we needed to get together. Well we did and what a team we made. I think we were well received and had tons of information for those that attended. We started off by introducing the [...]
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. [...]
Mars Curiosity STEM at its BEST
August 6th, 2012 · No Comments · NASA, STEM
Just wanted to blog briefly about this amazing feat NASA accomplished last night. It was amazing watching the whole thing on Eyes of Solar System. We arrived at NC Museum of Natural Sciences at about 11:30 pm and very few seats were left. Standing room only! It was great to see all these people [...]
Xbox and NASA?
July 21st, 2012 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, School Events, Space Camp, STEM, Teacher Workshop
Yep. It’s true, Xbox has partnered with NASA to bring a Mars Curiosity game to the Xbox Kinect platform. The game simulates the “seven minutes” of terror, the landing. According to Jeff Norris of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the game shows what scientists will be going through on the night of August 5th when the [...]
Spring Fling
April 13th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Labs, NASA, STEM, Teacher Workshop
The title is a little deceiving. Yes spring is here, but a “fling” well yeah in a way. Today the NC Science Festival started, so yes maybe a spring fling. Festivities are kicking off all over NC to start this two week long event. You can find details at the NC Science Festival. Some of [...]
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