In today’s episode, I have the pleasure to talking with Jill Damato from the education department of Brookfield Zoo. Jill and I met as colleagues enrolled in the AIP program through Miami University Ohio and Brookfield Zoo. In this episode, Jill and…
read moreIn today’s episode, I have the pleasure to talking with Dr. Deanna Soper. I first met Dr. Soper as an instructor in one of my classes through the Miami University AIP program, and couldn’t wait to talk to her about her work….
read moreI hate missing a day of work. Being up 3 am making sub-plans and hoping against hope to have a caring and professional adult in the classroom, while fighting illness or (worse yet) caring for a sick kid, is not my idea…
read moreI think one of the problems with science, and one of the issues The Next Generation Science Standards are trying to discuss is the focus on “facts”. From Kindergarten through High School and even beyond, science classes are mostly memorizing names, vocabulary…
read moreNOTE: This post is was originally published December 22, 2015 Why did I chose Science Scenes as the name for my outreach on science education, news and content? Yes. There was the fact that the domain name was available. Yes. There was…
read moreA few months ago, we suffered a hack which resulted in the complete loss of the previous website. With no budget at the time, we had no choice but to take the website down. After much contemplation about what I wanted to…
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