Welcome
Striving to bring joy into science and math through variety
Building a community of lifelong learners!
Who am I?
Who Am I?
I’m a teacher and mama with a passion for all things education. I think that learning should be fun, not because teachers should be entertaining kids, but because a brain that’s having fun is more likely to retain information.
Play should NOT stop being part of our lives just because we get older!
I also believe that variety is an importan
I’m a teacher and mama with a passion for all things education. I think that learning should be fun, not because teachers should be entertaining kids, but because a brain that’s having fun is more likely to retain information.
Play should NOT stop being part of our lives just because we get older!
I also believe that variety is an important part of learning because it provides anchoring for different concepts.
For example, a student is more likely to remember mechanisms of evolution because they wrote and performed skits in class, whereas the domains of life were tackled with a case study about the microbiome.
These associations are so important, so switch it up! It’s more interesting for learners AND teachers!
I hope you’ll check out my blog for some more of my teaching ideas and ramblings :)