Saucy Science Blog for Educators

Hello Fellow Science Lovers!      This week I have been tasked to check out some technological development environments.  I am actually already familiar with a few such as edpuzzle, smore, and postermywall.  I decided I would make an edpuzzle and create a circuits video showing the difference between a series circuit and a parallel circuit.  The way that it works is you find a video on youtube and you can do a voice over, record your own voice teaching the video and shorten the video as well.  Now, I was familiar with edpuzzle but had never made one and it seemed like it would be great for science.  Well after about 20 minutes I made the video the way I wanted it and created a class and everything.  It ended up not working because I wasn't able to confirm my email.  This frustrated me because I really liked my video.  Anyhow, I ended up finding a cool resource for my science teachers  https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/c...

So how does one become a saucy science blogger?      Seriously though, science is my love...but I have to say I have a very special spot in my heart for reading too!  I was an elementary teacher for 14 years, so it's just a big part of me!  Currently one of our big pushes at the middle school level is to use RUBIES strategies to help students comprehend test questions.  We want them to have a tool to help them find the answer step by step.  Reading is a big help when answering questions and students have to be able to comprehend what they read.  Incorporating as many reading strategies into science lesson is very beneficial to the student.       So for my tech grad class, I have to conduct a survey and I thought this is a perfect opportunity to ask my teachers how they feel about integrating reading into science.  I have used google forms, plickers, quizziz, quizlet, socrative and kahoot.  So I thou...

Hello World! This is an amateur's take on blogging for educators, science educators at that!  Writing a Blog   I love writing, so I thought this should be fun and pretty easy! So part of my grad class assignment is to research some different blog spots and choose one that I think will work for me. I did my research and oddly enough I found edublog quite difficult to navigate, and I also took some tours on kidblog, blog.com, and Wix and still came back to blogspot.com.  I honestly have never had a blog page before, so this was quite informative and I am always open to learning something new! Thanks for taking a peek!    I hope to provide some cool science tips for middle school science teachers.   For those of you that took time to read my blog, I would really appreciate some feedback or tips on how to improve by leaving a comment.