STEMing It Up
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West End, North Carolina, United States
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I have been teaching for 19 years. I taught elementary grades 1st, 3rd, and 5th. I taught middle grades social studies and science 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. I taught high school Biology and Earth/Environmental Science. I am currently working as Instructional Technology Facilitator K-5. I coach, model, and co-teach with classroom teachers showing them how they can incorporate more STEM and computer science activities into all subject areas.
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Saving the Sea Turtle with DASH robot
Want to teach your students about what animals need to survive? How about human impact on nature and ecosystems? This lesson is a great way to do that as well as working on students' basic coding skills. This is a great lesson for around Earth Day or just when you are teaching animal needs or human impact in your curriculum. Students discuss what sea turtles need to survive and then engineer a shovel for their Wonder Workshop DASH robot, then work to program Dash to move around the "beach" ar
1st - 4th
Computer Science - Technology, Science
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I have been teaching for 19 years. I taught elementary grades 1st, 3rd, and 5th. I taught middle grades social studies and science 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. I taught high school Biology and Earth/Environmental Science. I am currently working as Instructional Technology Facilitator K-5. I coach, model, and co-teach with classroom teachers showing them how they can incorporate more STEM and computer science activities into all subject areas.
Teaching style
My teaching style is a student-centered approach where students are in charge of their learning with the teacher as a guide or facilitator. I have students work collaboratively to problem-solve and think critically. I tend to follow an "I do, We do, You do" routine guide students through the content. I also incorporate the design thinking process for students to work through.
My own education history
I have a BS in Elementary Education and a MA in Education with an emphasis in gifted education.
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