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Monthly Archives: August 2019
Dropping the Moon
Teacher Innovator Institute Day 4: Thursday, July 18, 2019 On Thursday, July 18, 2019 we were in two locations on the National Mall for our Teacher Innovator Institute. We started in the Museum of Natural History and ended in the … Continue reading
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Tagged allende meteorite, ann hodges, chelyabinsk meteorite, chinatown, hope diamond, lunar meteorite, martian meteorite, megalodon, national museum of american history, national museum of natural history, peekskill meteorite, smithsonian learning lab, sylacauga meteorite
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At the Udvar-Hazy Center
Teacher Innovator Institute Day 3: Wed., July 17, 2019 On our third full day of the Teacher Innovator Institute we were at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center again near Dulles International Airport. We spent the … Continue reading
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Tagged air and space museum, b-24 bomber, colonel charles mcgee, driving question, engineering design challenge, flak bait, geodesic dome, loudoun county schools, mars pathfinder, project based learning, sojourner rover, space shuttle discovery, steam activities, teacher innovator institute, tuskegee airmen, udvar-hazy center, world war ii veterans
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I Spy With My Little Eye
Day Two of the Teacher Innovator Institute; July 16, 2019 On this, the second full day of our Institute, we were in and around the National Mall in the new International Spy Museum and the National Museum of Natural History. … Continue reading
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Tagged air and space museum, aston martin, banded iron, emerald, informal science education, international spy museum, james bond car, mata hari, millard county utah, minerals, national museum of natural history, nuking the moon, oxygenation event, phoebe waterman haas observatory, sapphire, shergotty meteorite, trilobite, u2 spy plane, vince houghton
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Teacher Innovator Institute
Monday, July 15, 2019 This was our first official day of the Teacher Innovator Institute in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the National Air and Space Museum. It was held at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, which is … Continue reading
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Tagged apollo 11 50th anniversary, apollo 15, astronauts, close encounters of the third kind, education innovation, educator professional development, egg drop challenge, ellen stofan, jim irwin, lunar receiving lab, milestones of flight, mother ship, national air and space museum, space shuttle discovery, sr-71 blackbird, stem education, steven f. udvar-hazy center, teacher innovator institute
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A Cruise of Cohorts
Our second day of the Teacher Innovator Institute (TII) in Washington, D.C was a Sunday and a chance to get acclimated and become acquainted with each other before the actual workshop begins. I walked to the National Cathedral and attended … Continue reading
The Spaced-Out Classroom 