There’s a big push for bringing STEM-type learning activities into traditional classrooms. For me, it’s been a little hard to understand what that should look like. In my science class, we often use math to explain what we are doing and technology is often woven throughout our lessons. This year, however, I have taken a different track. To me, STEM… Read more »
Over the last year, I have added an activity to my Science class called Arena Monday. Modeled after a mix of a ‘fishbowl’ discussion and The Hunger Games, it puts students in the hottest on modern issues in Science. Fishbowls may be old news to some, but I had never heard of one until a professor in grad school dumped… Read more »
Wow, what a summer. It seems that the Kenan Fellows externship has just ended, but it’s been two weeks! As I have reentered my life after this summer of awesome, I have slipped off task in blogging I have had two weeks of respite, but we start workdays next week and my brain has begun churning all the things I… Read more »
A month ago, the idea of an entire summer spent in Raleigh was hard to fathom. We had just completed an amazing week at NCCAT and I felt it would be pretty hard to top. This week, as our Kenan Fellows summer externship drew to a close, I realized that the NCCAT experience merely scratched the surface of the fellowship…. Read more »
Last week was a really big week. So big, in fact, I have had trouble processing it all – guess that’s why this post is a few days late! To start, TeamJaws took a trip to University of Florida in Gainesville to study shark jaws. As the trip coincided with Discovery Channel’s Shark Week programs, we felt #therealsharkweek was a… Read more »
Week one over? Really? The first week of the externship is over and it is really hard to believe. On one hand it feels like we just started and on the other Monday’s opening activities feel like forever ago. It’s that weird feeling you get when you are engrossed in what you are doing and loving every minute. I am… Read more »
Today was a big day. Maybe it was seeing mind-blowing fossils and fossil casts first thing in the morning. Maybe it was the camaraderie our team has established already. Maybe it was the 10 straight days of professional treatment. I don’t know. But today was a big day for me. Here’s a few reasons I can identify so far: 1…. Read more »
Today was the first day of our internships as Students Discover Kenan Fellows – and it rocked. Starting out at Prairie Ridge Ecostation allowed the whole group to get to know each other and to talk about our expectations for the next few weeks (years?). After hearing from each other and various grant and project managers we got to try out… Read more »
Our first week of Professional Advancement is behind us and I am already suffering from “Fellow Withdraw”. What an amazing week we have all had. By far, the day spent exploring the Nantahala River was the highlight of my week. It truly was a one-two punch of science content and team building. PD for educators typically consists of sessions that mimic… Read more »
I see the Kenan Fellowship as a step to move forward in many ways. First and foremost, I hope to gain science content knowledge from this experience. Participating in the Students Discover project will expose me to a number of new facts and skills. Some of this new information will be filling in gaps in my knowledge and some… Read more »
