Educator in Lexington, curious learner, K-5 Science focused. Views are my own.
Lexington, Massachusetts
Joined March 2014
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Pollinator Living Lab Alert! Second graders at Harrington were busy planting a NEW garden! Check out the full video at: Youtube.com/watch?v=vagdsjm2… @Hawk_Principal @HarringtonHAWKS @lexingtonsuper @lexedfoundation @bbylexma
Thanks to Alex and @MWObs for getting us and our @lexingtonsuper @EstabrookSchool LPS students up close and personal with “the world’s worst weather”!
Crew prepares for the trip, loading food for a week. Ms Buthlay and I are inching our way to the summit. Above tree line and the work begins! Digging out the weather equipment on route! @MWObs @lexingtonsuper @EstabrookSchool
Ms. Blackwell-Thompson, NASA's Launch Director - "Decades ago for Apollo 11, there was just one woman in the firing room of 450 men. Today, on launch day for Artemis I, 30 percent of the approximately 100 engineers in the firing room are women." - NYTimes
The Space Launch System has roared to life, launching the @NASA_Orion spacecraft on its journey for #Artemis I! Look out Moon, we are on the way!
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Happy #PhenomenaFriday! What were the most interesting phenomena you observed this week? Here are some of my faves. I recommend checking out @LearnInPlaces to help students and families notice local phenomena. Read more: stemteachingtools.org/brief/… #ngsschat -@SciJeanne
ALT A tree with peeling bark
ALT A gray chicken with beautiful round feathers
ALT A rotting carved pumpkin with black fungi growing on the carved parts
ALT A ginkgo tree with leaves that are half yellow half green
A chance to notice, wonder, and connect with our local surroundings at Lexington Learns Together 2022. Thanks for joining us to explore our Big Backyard! @bbylexma @Lexington_Sci @BridgeSchoolMA @LPS_Planning @lexingtonsuper
Thank you Bianca, Maggie, and Sri, members of 2 Bits and a Byte, the LPS Robotics Team, for building EV3s for us. Our Gr 4 students are excited to begin their design challenges! @Lexington_Sci @lexingtonsuper @LexingtonHSMa @TomMartellone
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Second graders working in teams to create a design to stop erosion. Collaboration and compromise in action! @LexK5science #Science #teamwork
This group of field scientists - simply awesome! @SchoolHastings @bbylexma @lexingtonsuper @Lexington_Sci
The sun returned and these G4 students took their solar panels and circuits outside to investigate energy transfers and transformations. Fun to encounter such focus and curiosity!
@Ms_KMichael
@FiskeSchool
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Happening now…K artists sketching scenes from our pollinator garden. Art and science interacting! @lexingtonmaart @LexK5science @lexingtonsuper @BowmanLexPTO
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Beautiful Fall Day for Kindergarten and Grade 3 Big Backyard walks! Thanks to @bbylexma for training and our volunteers! @CorduckJenny
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BBY was a huge success today! Scientist were able to observe all that nature has to offer in the Fall! Kindergarteners also planted daffodil bulbs. We will observe these bulbs as the seasons change! Big thanks to our parent volunteers! @bbylexma @HarringtonHAWKS ☀️🌷🐾🍃🍂🍄
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What reasons do we have for NOT getting kids outside? @LearnInPlaces @WMGLSI
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SCIENTIST ALERT 🚨 Today we observed our classroom caterpillars! These scientists were able to turn & talk and share what they noticed! Kindergarteners used awesome scientific language to describe their thinking! 🐛🦋🔬#LPSHawks @HarringtonHAWKS @LexK5science
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Tomorrow, an incredibly rare, once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event is happening! Jupiter will be its closest to Earth since 1963! Along with opposition, it’ll be SO bright, you’ll be able to see its bands and some moons just with binoculars!
This won’t happen again until 2129!
ALT Jupiter as seen by Hubble. Its bands and zones are clearly visible, seen as stripes running across the planet in shades of brown, white, and orange, and the Great Red Spot dominates the southern hemisphere and appears as a red dot in the image.
ALT A shot of Jupiter and 4 of its largest moons in a straight line labeled in order: “Ganymede, Io, Callisto, and Europa”. Jupiter appears in the center of these 4 moons, its large size making it the focal point of the image.
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Amid a drought, the Dinosaur Valley State Park has discovered dinosaur footprints that have historically been covered by water and sediment.
They date back more than 113 million years. abcn.ws/3PKZpPx
