On Friday, March 13th, we left Beekman for a two-week Spring Break vacation. I told my students good-bye, be safe, and make good choices. I made sure my room was tidy and the computer and SMARTBoard were turned off. I watered my plants and rushed out the door to catch my flight home to San Ant
“Units are life or death!” I tell my students. I often use the following example:
When I was young and adults asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my simple response due to my love of Christa McAuliffe, Princess Diana, and the aunt I still look up to today was: princess/astronaut/teacher. In 1986, my elementary teacher rolled a TV into the Science Corner and my classm
The Beekman Science Department attended a professional development workshop at Rockefeller University this week. The gorgeous East Side campus boasts 82 research labs and 200 graduate students. It is also home to the RockEdu Science Outreach program.
Many science textbooks define a scientist as someone who asks questions about the natural world and seeks to answer those questions through research, experimentation and collaboration. If this is true, we all start out as scientists.
As the oldest of three, I passed a lot of hand-me-downs to my siblings.
What specific lessons do you remember from your school days? I remember Mrs. Gallegos letting us watch Romeo and Juliet after reading the book in English class. In Spanish, Sra.
There are many things we experience in our day-to-
I grew up believing mediocrity was unacceptable. In the Macias household, the only acceptable report card grade to bring home was an A. B’s were considered failing grades and only God knew what would happen to you if you ever brought home a C. Neither I nor my siblings cared to test out that s
I was a military brat. My dad was in the Navy, so every 3 to 4 months we’d pack everything up and travel to a new military base for my dad’s new assignment. By the time I was in middle school, I had lived half of my life overseas in places like Scotland and a tiny 3 mile by 8 mile island off th