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Science Rap Video

A music video a group of my seventh grade students produced for Plant Cell Bling! It's a song I wrote to teach plant cell organelles and their functions using the music from Drake's Hotline Bling. Watch it here (click 'subtitles on' to read the lyrics)...

Published in Science Scope

I am so happy to have a featured article in Science Scope (January 2019, Oceans Issue). Science Scope is the middle school journal of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). The article describes a series of activities for students to investigate plankton and better understand plankton's role in aquatic ecosystems. Students can engineer a plankton net out of household materials, observe plankton specimens with a microscope, and construct a visual model of an aquatic food web!
Click here to read "The Microscopic World of Plankton."
Click here for a Plankton Primer info sheet.
​Click here for the Plankton Activity Cards.

Animated Book Review

My friends Josh Sneiderman and Erin Twamley wrote a book for kids called Renewable Energy: Discover the Fuel of the Future. Learn the science of renewables through 20 hands-on activities. Order a copy here and check out my video poem book review...

Animated Poem 

I created this short video poem for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's #OneGiantLeap for the Ocean contest, and I was the Grand Prize Winner! The prize was a trip to WHOI  to welcome their new ship the R/V Neil Armstrong. Watch my entry here...