STEMfully Yours

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Greencastle, Indiana, United States

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* 30 years of teaching Middle School Science * Level I & II Google Certified Instructor * Tech Trainer Cadre for our district since 1999

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Parachute STEM build & Airdrop Mission

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STEMfully Yours

The following STEM build is a perfect way to end the school year. The Challenge is posed after reading the children's book Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot, a story about Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen and the famous Berlin Airdrop missions. Students are to design an economical parachute that lands with the least amount of damage to the graham cracker that is attached to the Duplo block payload. Students choose design materials, itemize these costs, determine the surface area of their canopy, and

3rd - 8th

Engineering, Physics, Science

NGSS

MS-ETS1-2

, MS-ETS1-4

, MS-ETS1-1

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About the store

Experience

* 30 years of teaching Middle School Science * Level I & II Google Certified Instructor * Tech Trainer Cadre for our district since 1999

Teaching style

Constructivist

Awards & shining teacher moments

* PAEMST Indiana Awardee 2017 *Teacher Creativity Fellowship 2002 & 2015 * Co-Writer for District Math/Science Partnership Grant Indiana $250,000 for our school district's STEM Learning Collaborative training *Gladysmae Good Teacher of Chemistry Award 2016 *Charlotte Boener Award HASTI (Indiana)

My own education history

Graduated from Wartburg College in Waverly Iowa K-12 Science Education, Biology Major Master's in Curriculum and Instruction from Indiana State University, 1999.

Additional biographical information

I Love being with my family, running, hiking, and golfing with my husband. A passion of mine is the great outdoors. I have spent two summers on Earthwatch expeditions studying dolphins in Sarasota Bay & sustainability on Puerto Rico. I love technology and love to continually learn.