ARTIFACTS

The high-quality STEM lessons and infographic below reflect in-depth knowledge of students and ways they learn best.  The activities within encourage self-motivation, social interaction, and feature hands-on, life-relevant activities with technology such as swabbing devices to observe bacterial growth before and after cleaning.  Lessons were created for my UMD Developing a Professional Portfolio class.

DEVICES & BACTERIA

"Is your phone making you sick?"
A modern, experiment-focused lesson where students test different cleaning methods on their technological devices.

DEFINE EMPTY

"What is empty?"

A series of activities designed to get students thinking about matter and its not always visible properties

DIGITAL RESOURCE REVIEW

Google's Be Internet Awesome & NoodleTools
A review of useful tech tools for teachers who would like to reinforce key ISTE standards of digital citizenship, security, and academic honesty