Science Education – Page 3 – Sharky Shenanigans

Literature in Marine Science: Celebrating Literacy Week in the Marine Science Classroom

by Savanna Finley January 27, 2025June 3, 2025Comments are Disabled

This year’s Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! encouraged educators to build literacy across subjects, and in our high school marine science classroom, we dove headfirst into one of the most iconic ocean-inspired novels of all time: Jaws by Peter Benchley. But instead of focusing on fear, we used this story as a launchpad for science, media literacy, and creative expression. …

NSTA 2024 in New Orleans!

by Savanna Finley November 15, 2024June 3, 2025Comments are Disabled

New Orleans is already known for its vibrant culture, rich history, and world-famous cuisine, but this year, it also served as the perfect host city for the 2024 National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) Conference. Science educators from around the country (and the world!) gathered in the Big Easy to exchange ideas, discover the latest teaching …

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Sea Hare Serendipity

by Savanna Finley February 28, 2023July 13, 2023Comments are Disabled

Aristotle once theorized that living creatures could arise from nonliving matter and that this process was common. He hypothesized that maggots could arise from dead flesh and fleas come from dust. According to Aristotle, the generation of things like sea shells varies with the sea bed. Slime gave rise to oysters, sand to scallops, and …

National Geographic Educator Certification

by Savanna Finley August 16, 2022February 16, 2023Comments are Disabled

For the past 3 months I have been working on an educator certification through National Geographic. Starting with the basics I learned about this certification through a classmate of mine who was doing some work in informal education and thought it would be a fun way for me to learn how to incorporate some new …