Come to see my school band play on May 9th! It will be a very lovely concert!

It was a real honor to receive the Part-time Professor Award of Excellence today uOttawa Education Congratulations to my colleagues who also recieved various awards! We are a great team.

Really enjoying the activity stations of PED 4194 (Sr biology) uOttawa Education . From shoreline erosion to the microbiology of yeast, students are thinking outside the box about activities for students in the Ontario biology classroom and they're superb!

Another great day in PED4194 Senior Biology uOttawa Education .. The stomata lab is always a hit and it's a great entry point for talking about how plants are dynamic and challenge 'plant blindness.'

Loving that my students are engaged using vertical surfaces. It was a great afternoon to have fun with trig identities! Western Québec Hadley Jr. / Philemon Wright High School uOttawa Education

You don't need a lot of tech to do a respiratory system activity! My grade 9 classes built 'lungs' today using bottles, balloons and straws! The lung inflates when you pull the diaphragm down and vice versa. All materials can be saved for next year!

We had some great and not so great pumpkin blasts today in PED 3131. It was a good way to learn about what mixtures work for this cool demo! Here's one that worked perfectly! Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Université d'Ottawa | University of OttawaEdu

A great week in PED 3131 designing really practical experiments for intermediate science. Light spectra of various metal salts, building structures with index cards to test various forces, and looking at the effect of temperature on the kinetic energy of gases!

Welcome back to my students at uOttawa Education . We're diving right into looking at activities for PED 3131 Teaching Intermediate Science - from peppergrams to density calculations and more 🤓

I had a lovely time conducting a workshop about worldly education and the urgency and nature of transformative pedagogies at the Canadian Teacher's Federation CTF/FCE with Nicholas Ng-A-Fook , Dr. Catherine James and Paul Tarc. Pleasure to work with you as we continue this research.

Another great school year wrapped up! My students ended on a high note and there were some excellent projects for grade 11 forensics unit - analysing a crime scene! We also released butterflies which I always think is poignant given that the students are graduating tomorrow 🦋

Today was all about blood in biology 11 forensics unit Hadley Jr. / Philemon Wright High School . We looked at the angles of cast off and impact, and how height affects size of droplets. Working up to our final project at the end of May to fully understand and interpret a crime scene.

Come & enjoy our Spring Concerts featuring the ensembles of the Ottawa Youth Orchestra Academy next weekend. Tickets are available online at ottawayouthorchestra.ca or at the door. One ticket for both shows! The artwork on this concert poster is by Julius Marks in Jr. Strings.

Once again it's that day for the eyeball dissection with grade 9 science. Got it on the board at lunch yesterday for the kids to reference today. Hadley Jr. / Philemon Wright High School Western Québec

Absolutely loved teaching this group of year 2 Senior Biology students uOttawa Education! We capped off our course with dissection of grassfrogs and honed our skills for how to best guide students to success with specimens. Wishing all of these teachers successful careers ahead!

What a joy to conduct this wonderful group of Hadley Jr. / Philemon Wright High School musicians (grade 7-11 mixed) on our elementary school tour to Greater Gatineau and PETE School schools. Sophie Olberg and I are proud to be your band conductors!
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Don't let an ice storm stop the fun of grading by candlelight. That said, many students learn by kerosene lamp around the world and study under streetlights. Power outage is my first world problem just for the moment.

Having fun in mathematics 11SN with modelling clay. Building cones and cutting with dental floss to make conic sections and discuss loci! Western Québec Hadley Jr. / Philemon Wright High School

You might wonder what's going on in PED 4194 uOttawa Education ! You can observe your pulse by putting a marshmallow with a toothpick flag on your wrist and watching it flicker. Turns out this works on the neck as well! Science teachers will try anything... At least once!

Who benefits from a four day week at elementary schools? Pleasure to share my thoughts with Alan Neal on All in a Day . I look forward to hearing how the experiment works for students in the two schools trying it out next year.
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