A2: I tend to use @NatGeoEducation bios of scientists and @Newsela articles about their work then replicate their field work in the lab or OUTSIDE when I can :) #scitlap
A1 I teach anyone related to my curriculum and my @amplify units have current scientists as part of the units who introduce the big problem or share how they study. We study Grace Hopper during CSEd week #scitlap
A1 I don't teach much about current scientists in my classroom. I've mentioned the regulars (Newton, Einstein). I do a big unit on Einstein and his theories. #scitlap
A1. I can actually show Ss some of the things I used to do working in industry as a scientist doing research, in a variety of fields, and bring it into the classroom for the Ss learning through experiments and research. #scitlap
Q3: For what disciplines or science topics do you need connections? #scitlap
Feel free to help one another out here in suggesting and tagging YOUR connections.
A2 Used to do a huge "influential thinkers" research paper at the end of the year. We used books, websites (https://t.co/eZlVcfRCee), online databases. #scitlap
A1 - It depends on what we're studying at the time. Gregor Mendel, Rosalind Franklin, Ernest Rutherford have all come up this year. We watch When We Left Earth by @Discovery, so astronauts and the computers (Hidden Figures) come up, too. #scitlap
A3 I am currently connecting with people to help with Trout in the Classroom. Slow going so far. Guess I'm too used to immediate email responses and tweets. #scitlap
A3 All of them, lol. I would love to try @SkypeScientist but I am kinda chicken. Would love to hook up actual scientists with student questions. #scitlap
A2 - Usually scientists come up when we are uncovering content that a particular scientist is known for. Ex: as we are stumped by and then come up with explanations for recessive traits disappearing and re-appearing, I mention Gregor Mendel... #scitlap
A2 again - I have this set of "rockstar scientists" as post cards around my room, which has lead to convos. One student saw Mae Jemison's and said, "Mae Jemison!? She's my GIRL!" :) #scitlaphttps://t.co/eaDthKWWlj
A1: Bob Ballard, Jacques Cousteau, Sylvia Earle, Eugenie Clark, Gause, Sean Colin (from RWU came to speak to my class) to name a few. And to my daughter, age 7, we love reading books like Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers that Changed the World. #scitlap
A4 We do have a school connection with the American Chestnut Foundation. Part of our Ecology Curriculum is built around this connection. It’s pretty awesome. #scitlap
A4. I worked with a lot of people in industry, and went to school with quite a bit of people who are also chemists ,like myself, biologists, and doctors. #scitlap
A5: I get in the field as much as I can whether it is in the Peruvian Amazon with @georuzo or local surveying. My expertise is making field experiences for students in the laboratory or outside. I was recently in Galapagos as well. I could speak about those experiences #scitlap
A4: we take an annual trip to@UC Berkeley and have sessions with paleontologist, entomologists and seismologists. Two NASA & research engineers from NASA visit my school. I also host a huge science careers night. Aviation is everywhere since Navy school. #scitlap
A5 I am a jack of all trades and expert of nothing. This is one of those questions that someone else that knows me might be better at answering than me. #scitlap
A3: I’d love to connect with others with robotics and circuitry help. I’m new to SeaPerch & robotics this year. & I love learning about coral, I’d love to connect with coral researchers. & I’m looking for is someone in NY schools working on the Oyster reef restoration #scitlap
A4 - Several years ago I had the pleasure of participating in the Fossil Finders program through @PRInstitution and skyped with scientists there after intensive PD with them. Amazing. #scitlap
A4: I met with a professor at MIT SeaMate last spring. I need to get back in contact with him this year. I have a speaker from the MWRA come in annually to teach about the Deer Island water treatment facility. And had Sean Colin from Roger Williams come in & speak. #scitlap
I hadn't thought of it that way, really - great point. I do love the looks on students' faces when I say, "You know, XXXXX had the same idea..." #scitlap
@gdorn1 and @schnekser In the lab, I tested for metals such as Sb, Pb, Tl, ang Hg.. It was a long time ago, but it was some time of spectrometry. #scitlap
A6. When we do an experiment, I can usually connect it to a specific area of work that a scientist does. If a Ss chooses to look in that pathway. #scitlap
I worked in an environmental lab for a few years testing soil and biota for PCBs. Job sucked. An assembly line with drams, pipettes, and chemicals. I was promoted to grinding up fish for analysis. #scitlap
I haven’t done it in years, but @LifeAtPurdue Purdue University use to have ZipTrips, virtual field trips, where kids could ask scientists questions during the live stream. Wonder if they still do it?? #scitlap
A6 - I connected with geologists @PRInstitution through a PD offering... but now that I think about it, one time my class and I emailed a scientist that we heard in an interview on NPR and he wrote us back about the dinosaur he found. #scitlap
They were frozen. My coworker and I brought out the carp or striper (or other fish) from the freezer. Sliced it with an electric carving knife. Shoved the fillet through a meat grinder and placed the fishy smoothie into a sample jar. It was awful. #scitlap
A5:expertise? I too feel I’m a jack of many things, but would never say I’m an expert in them. I have a degree in marine bio & enviro chem, I’m a GCE level 1, I’m crafty, I know too much but never enough about trash & recycling & plastics in the ocean
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