Afternoon all. This weather sucks. Hope everyone is ok.

Blast from my childhood!!

Hanging out at the Guggenheim with my daughter for the afternoon.

I have been sharing information about the Artemis II mission with my students and families. This is super exciting and I love sharing stuff like this with my kiddos. #teach180 #edusky

Today we are going to be working on a webquest to have the kids learn and understand more about deep time. We spent the past three days looking at various fossils to make observations and inferences plus look at structure and function. It had been a good week. #teach180 #edusky

Spent the day talking about the Artemis 2 launch and working through a bunch of fossil observations. My student teacher has his list ready to send home positive notes tomorrow to some of the students. His wait time is better and is now setting expectations clearer. #teach180 #edusky

Physics question - a student is asking about Brewster’s angle. She wants to know if an electron is moving in the direction of the wave, will it move in the direction of the wave or is it still moving in a varied path around the nucleus? #scicomm

This week with my student teacher, I am going to give him three goals: 1) no hands raised, use names and call on students at random using the seating chart for the warmup 2) get out to observe another teacher in the building 3) send home a good note for one student in each class #edusky #teach180

Day 3 working with my student teacher. Good things: has a calm demeanor, interacting with the kids, taking initiative, working on names. Things to work on: higher order questions, wait time, working on an attention signal and setting expectations. All these will come in time. #edusky #teach180

My student teacher today was up front again today. He didn’t do a bad job. Overall he is on a good trajectory and look forward to seeing how he improves through the semester. #edusky #teach180

Today I had my student teacher up front doing the warmup with the kids. He did a decent job for the first time. Needs to work on getting their attention and asking deeper questions but for a first time, not bad. He and I chatted about it and I am looking forward to tomorrow. #teach180 #edusky

Today was day one with my student teacher. The students took a pretest so there was no real chance for him to get up in front. We spent today looking at the results, talking about what they meant and what decisions I would make based on them for the upcoming unit. #teach180 #edusky

Tomorrow we get back to it in the classroom to get ready for our students who show up Tuesday. Also, I get another student teacher for the spring semester. Looking forward to helping this young teacher. #teach180 #edusky

Anyone on here know a reputable random science fact generator? I was thinking of having a fact of the day to share in my class for next semester. #scichat #edusky

Went on vacation with the family and it has been pretty good. We hiked about seven miles yesterday next to a river, saw a waterfall, ID’d some birds, hurt myself hiking. Yeah, good day.

Anyone else find it difficult to let your kid drive you around?

Morning everyone. When we start back in January, I have the honor of hosting a student teacher again. I truly believe it is part of my professional responsibility to help student teachers and part of that is because of my personal experience as a student teacher. 1/ #edusky #teach180

I have to admit I did not think the science fair post I had up would get the most traction if anything I have put up on here. I truly enjoy it, do not want it to be a burden, and do as much as I can to help my kids with it. Part One #teach180 #edusky

Started listening to science fair presentations in class today. Boy howdy there were three that were absolutely bonkers. There were a bunch that showed effort. A couple that were not up to the standard. Still think this is worthwhile exercise for the kids. #teach180 #edusky

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I am proud that I earned the rank of Eagle Scout. I am proud that my son earned the rank of Eagle Scout. I am proud that I have been a small part of around dozen other youth earning their Eagle rank. Scouts has helped so many youth and I am proud to be a small part of that.

Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes: www.aurorasaurus.org

One class spent the day working to assemble a creature from its skeleton that had been mixed up. It is such a great time to watch & listen to them as they try to put it together. We always have rich conversations about how and why after. I’ve attached a few of the final products. #teach180 #edusky

Students took a pretest at the end of last week and just had a chance to look at the data today. I always look at the class results with the class and we discuss as a group. They are not long discussions but they are important and helpful. #teach180 #edusky

Went to the Kentucky Science Teacher Association conference with my son who wants to be a MS Social Studies/Science teacher today. Was a fantastic opportunity to learn with him and see him as a teacher. Also ran into a former student teacher of mine who is crushing it as a science teacher.

Ok folks - need some advice. I have a student who wants to experiment with wind turbine blade design to find the most efficient for cost versus power production. Any thoughts on SIMS or how to make/test them? #edusky #science #windenergy #physics #stem #sciencefair

This was me at work yesterday teaching my 8th graders. #teach180 #edusky

The last two Fridays I have made it a mission to send a good note home for two students out of each class. It is a quick note saying I have noticed them doing good and appreciate it. That is basically it. Oh, and I am in middle school. Parents have been loving it. #edusky #teach180

Kids are taking an assessment today and doing well. It makes me smile to see them do so well. #edusky #teach180

Spent the day at a local park doing water quality lessons with my 8th graders! #teach180 #edusky

Definitely enjoyed Northern California.

Spent the last week out in the redwoods with the family for our fall break!

This week I have been lucky enough to have a local organization here to speak about and teach about our local waterways with my students. #teach180 #edusky

Today was spent talking about Social Media Footprint and about digitally literate. #teach180 #edusky

Tomorrow we get to finish up our Skype A Scientist opportunity with two awesome microbiologists, one of which is going to share some in Spanish. @skypeascientist.bsky.social #teach180 #edusky

Got to talk for a few minutes with a research scientist about bioethics with my kids. I know it was brief but it will be something I can most definitely refer back to. #teach180 #edusky

To any of my fellow science educators, you have to give @skypeascientist.bsky.social a try. They match your class up with a practicing scientist. It has been an awesome experience for my kids. Seriously, sign up for one. You won’t regret it. #teach180 #edusky

Yesterday two classes got to chat with a Microbiologist about the gut Microbiome and it was a great experience. The other two get to chat with Microbiologists on Monday all thanks to @skypeascientist.bsky.social Awesome program. Thank you. #teach180 #edusky

Today we were wrapping up a case study of a patient that was sick and got better. Main point was to see that space in the gut Microbiome was not good since it allows bacteria and easier path to grow and colonize. #teach180 #edusky

Worked on block four of our important science prefix/suffix list, worked some on our case study of patient 23 and figured out space in the gut is not a good thing. #teach180 #edusky

Today we took a pretest for an upcoming unit of study. Once I look at the data, I make one of four decisions: 1) scores were low enough and widespread enough to warrant completing the unit as originally intended 2) If a handful of kids show mastery on the pretest, they will be 1/

Today we worked on a prefix vocab list quiz, safety quiz and wrapping up some work from earlier in the week. #teach180 #edusky

Spent today talking lab safety and writing a short answer response after watching the NOVA Wonders episode of What’s Living inside you. #teach180 #edusky

Today we talked about what it takes to score a 5/5 on their short answer assessment questions, wrapped up our NOVA episode with a section about fecal transplants. #teach180 #edusky

Yesterday we did two small activities to help the kids get a better understanding of the Cross Cutting Concepts of the NGSS. #teach180 #edusky

Day six - spent time working in a lab writing up, learning ten new prefix and suffixes, listening to our guidance counselor. #teach180 #edusky

We did our first lab report. I gave everyone a 10/10 for doing it in the grade book but graded it with feedback on how it improve it as if it was a summative grade. Plan is to give them back, review and revise them. Eventually I want each kid to have one they can reference as an example. #edusky

Suggestions for a funny tv show to watch?

Day two ended on a high note and that was after a good day overall. I am really enjoying this group so far. The kiddos have been engaged and working. #edusky

Day One done. It was a great day. Kids did very well. Excited to see how the rest of the year goes now!! #edusky