I’m re-publishing this post here because I have some of my best grant examples for people to see linked below. And go here to see my advice on Getting Even More Money. I have learned the benefits of grant writing. In my 31 year career, I have gotten grants for 26 of those 31 years. …
Category: Science
These are blogs about Science or about the Science we do in my classes.
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May 05
Backing up Claims
In my last post I shared learnings and takeaways from some Common Core ELA trainings I’ve attended around the CCSS-ELA Shift 2 (students need to engage in, “reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational”). This post continues with more about Shift 2. Questioning!Now that you’ve selected the perfect complex …
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Apr 11
Food Miles 6th grade Blog Post
Food Miles? What is food miles, you ask? Check out this 6th grader’s summary of an awesome activity we did in class to raise student awareness of food traveling to get to your plates!
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Mar 07
WA STEM PD Work
Our middle school is on Year 2 of our work with a WA STEM PD project. Here’s a video I put together to share the major highlights of our work with WA STEM: In the video I share some resources that we’ve been using for our PLC work. The WA STEM PD project was inspired …
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Mar 02
6th Graders Blog About World Problems
We were working on a Science opener, just like we’ve done every single day this year. I always start each class with a cool Science opener from a book I bought years ago and took out of some cabinet after years of having forgotten about it. The opener question was to come up with differences …
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Dec 09
Working in Isolation
I’ve been meaning to write this blog post reflecting on a wonderful STEM summit I attended on Dec 1st, the WA STEM Summit 2015. I was wondering which takeaway I wanted to share the most or what I was going to write about the takeaways. And I will, but this blog post is about the …
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Nov 24
Environmental Grants
The secret to getting grants is either finding the right grant for the right project or creating a project that matches a grant. It’s not as easy as needing devices for your students and finding a grant to get them. Well, at least that has not been my experience. If you are lucky, you will …
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Nov 23
Solve for Tomorrow
Samsung has a cool contest called the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow. Teachers are invited to submit ideas for how they will use STEM to solve a problem in their community. Out of all the teachers who apply they select five finalists from each state. The state finalists get two Samsung Galaxy Tablets for getting selected. …
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Jul 06
Another Cool Partnership #OSPP
I’ve participated in some great partnerships from the North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership (NCOSP) to the Olympic Math and Science Partnership (OMSP) to the brand new Olympic STEM Pathways Partnership (OSPP). I have learned so much from the partnerships I’ve been involved in which is why I jumped at the opportunity to join this …
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Jun 07
6th Post About the Chicken Industry
June 7, 2016
Here’s a blog post one of my 6th graders wrote for our World Solutions blog about the chicken industry. Warning: the video on this post, suggested by another one of my students who read her blog post, is very disturbing. Check it out and leave her a comment!