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Playing around with dry ice

Last week was the week before senior exams. My L1 class had just finished an internal the week before, as had my L2. I felt assessmented out before assessment week had even begun. Luckily, my year 10’s have been doing good old acids and bases. A big part of how I deliver this unit isContinue reading “Playing around with dry ice”

BioliveChemEd reflections

Last week I was in Wellington for BioliveChemED. And it was rad. Amazingly awesome – although I was really tired going in so I did struggle a little with the motivation aspect. I started writing this post wanting to think about my highlights. But reading through my notes, there were so many good sessions andContinue reading “BioliveChemEd reflections”

#TeachmeetNZ meets Science – Awesome happened

A couple of weeks ago I get an e-mail from Cath at the Science learning hub asking me if I wanted to be involved in a Science #teachmeetNZ. I hadn’t participated in an online teachmeet before, but was keen to help out in anyway I could, and I love working with Cath, so of courseContinue reading “#TeachmeetNZ meets Science – Awesome happened”

Twitter has a new level

So, #scichatNZ has really taken off. Matt Nicoll did an excellent post on how he sees it, which has inspired me to do one too, but as more of a relfection of my journey to get here. I got signed up to twitter at a school PD day – it was a novelty, I tweeted someContinue reading “Twitter has a new level”

Term 3 madness

So, term 3 is here already. I am trying to hit the ground running… Today I had my first go explicitly using Solo taxonomy. I used the hexagons (generated by the free ap here) as a starter for my yr 11 Genetics topic. It worked really well, and I found my students where already familiar withContinue reading “Term 3 madness”