roxannewright replied to your post: Nerdy
All the habitat unfucking has made me a way happier person just in the last 24 hours. Clean your room, kids.
This is the first thing on my list after school ends.
Mine is only three days, but same sentiment.
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roxannewright replied to your post: Nerdy
Can u post tge slides you are going to use?
Hmm. I’ll try. I can certainly do a photoset of the images.
allisonunsupervised replied to your post: Nerdy
What kind of beer goes with Saturday night powerpointing?
LOL. I am drinking, as a matter of fact. Finishing off the Wolaver’s Wildflower Wheat I picked up last weekend ;)
I’m putting together a powerpoint that I’m going to loop while my kids take their final exam. It’s got iconic/awesome science & biology images interspersed with quotes about science and biology.
I’m going to miss my kids.
I love my job.
THIS is why I love this community.
How I wish I could be a fly on the wall when he tells his kids!
Thank you to all who donated!
So awesome. Internet, you win today.
Last summer, my music was the New Pornographers and Mumford & Sons. Plus a healthy does of stuff from the Rolling Stones’ “100 Greatest” list.
This summer, here’s what I’m predicting will be in heavy rotation:
How is your summer playlist shaping up?
the bad thing was the event itself, but my reaction to the event itself was also bad. i’ve been off for the past few weeks, especially this week. i suppose i might be starting to slack, knowing the year is coming to a close and my students have made so much progress throughout the year. i didn’t have any coffee today, and it was first thing in the morning, but my slow reaction time and complete lack of expertise on how to handle situations like this really shows why teach for america’s training is ineffective, but also that you can’t really train for certain events that are likely to occur in classrooms of young children. this is suuuuuuuuuuper super super long. it might be the longest thing ever written on tumblr. it’s also rather sad.
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For all my PGH followers.
Important information alert: the new textbook I have for gifted biology has a brilliantly written and sequenced macroevolution chapter.
It’s logical, it answers all the right questions in the right sequence, and it is at the right reading level for my gifted 9th graders. There are sensible graphics (the diagrams are good! this is the unicorn of biology textbooks).
I can’t wait to use these resources next year. My evolution unit is going to be so much more successful than the mess it was this year. Having now flipped through much of this book, I feel like I won’t have to personally write and create every scrap of content for my students.*
*Not for my gifted students, at least. I’ll still need to be doing it for my other two preps. But I’ll take whatever I can get!