Sensory Integration Challenges

Page | February 2020

Sensory Integration Challenges Sensory Integration Disorder is a condition that exists when sensory signals don't get organized into appropriate responses. Pioneering occupational therapist and neuroscientist A. Jean Ayres, PhD, likened SPD to a neurological "traffic jam" that prevents certain parts…

Eye Protection and Safer Practices FAQ

Page | February 2020

Eye Protection and Safer Practices FAQ What is My Obligation? Science teachers are obligated to provide students with the safest and most appropriate eye protection for the task that they are being asked to perform. School boards as the employer are required to purchase and teachers as employees to…

Motor Impaired / Orthopedic Disability

Page | February 2020

Motor Impaired / Orthopedic Disability James Prescott Joule (1818–1889) was an English physicist who studied thermodynamics, leading to the famous “Joule’s Law.” He was born with a spinal disorder that required him to be home schooled. Motor impaired/orthopedic disabilities include a…

Online Connections (2010-2021)

Page | January 2020

Online Connections (2010-2021) July-August 2021Under the SeaStandardized rubric for analyzing healthy and impacted coralStudent worksheet for organizing evidenceUsing Big Data to Understand the History of Planet EarthConnecting to the Next Generation Science StandardsDelving Into…

Crunching Cans and Generating Power

Journal Article | June 2021

Q: Do you have a weather-related activity that my students would enjoy?

Journal Article | September 2022

The Language of Science

Journal Article | October 2021

Experiential Mindfulness

Journal Article | March 2023

What If?

Journal Article | September 2022

Impression Obsession

Journal Article | January 2021

Analyzing the Weather

Journal Article | January 2022

Up and Away!

Journal Article | May 2022

An Argumentative Writing Prompt Model to Support Nonscience Major Students’ Learning in an Introductory Chemistry Course

Journal Article | July 2022

An argumentative writing prompt model is presented for use in a general chemistry class designed for nonscience major students. The purpose of this instructional model is to support students with rich experiences to…

A Perfect Storm

Journal Article | March 2022

This point of view article uses a social science lens in an attempt to understand the differing environments of the two institutions (private and public) where I taught chemistry for 3 decades. I hypothesize that…