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When I have free time, I love to create. This includes drawing, problem solving, making, and many other things. Posts about creating can be found on this page.
Bright Future 2020-2021 FREE Digital Teacher Planner for OneNote
I am so excited to share my OneNote teacher planner with you! I have designed this planner so I can switch to digital planning next year for my teacher planner but still have the look and feel of a ‘pretty’ paper planner. I decided to use a Mid-Century Modern theme as it feels so bright […]
Breathe
Heart pounds. Breath catches. Thoughts run oneafteranotheratafrenziedpaceandIcan’tkeepup Stop. Just breathe. Deep breath in, Hold. Deep breath out. S L O W D O W N Just breathe. I have been doing some clearing out the past few days, and I found this poem I wrote back […]
Welcome to the all new Mrs Wilson Science site!
I am so excited to unveil the all new Mrs Wilson Science site! There’s not a whole lot here yet, but in the days and weeks to come, I plan to post regular updates relating to my interests of teaching, creating, and exploring. If you previously following Stretching Forward, you may find there’s a bit […]
Lanier STEM Maker Fest is almost here! #edBlogaDay
Our STEM Maker Fest is the day after tomorrow. Today, one of our group of students who has been working on their project for hours and hours during and after school for weeks got everything up and running. They built a robot from the ground up. It’s a tank with a t-shirt canon on it. […]
Lanier STEM Maker Fest #edBlogaDay
Our STEM Maker Fest is on Saturday. This weekend, one of my students made this video to encourage students from our feeder middle school to attend. It’s a great video. What’s really cool? She didn’t have to make this awesome video. She decided to make it of her own initiative because she really wants the […]
Sketchnotes experiment: Day 2 #edBlogaDay
Today we really dived into our gas laws unit. I started today’s lesson by reviewing some basic shapes to help with drawings when using sketchnotes. Mike Rohde outlines these in TheSketchnote Handbook. Almost anything can be drawn in sketchnotes using a rectangle, circle, triangle, line, and dot. We also looked at techniques for drawing people, […]
Spring is love #edBlogaDay
I grew up in Florida. People will often joke that Florida doesn’t have seasons. Of course Florida has seasons; they just aren’t traditional: hurricane season, tourist season, strawberry season, and citrus season are just a few. Growing up in Florida, I always wondered what the big deal is about spring. When I moved to Georgia […]
Sketchnotes experiment: Day 1 #edBlogaDay
If you have been following the blog the past month, you know that I have been brainstorming a way to bring sketchnotes/doodling/art journaling to my chemistry classroom. This is a concept I would really like to incorporate next year, so I am piloting it with one of my classes for our last unit of the […]
Doors #AprilBlogADay
Doors Keep us safe inside, Locked in our cocoons. Closed. Shut. Isolated. Doors Join us to the world around us, Expanding our horizons. Open. Accessible. Connected. Doors Is it time to open our classroom doors to the world around us? I’ve been thinking a lot about this the past couple of days. In tomorrow’s post, […]
Sketchnotes and doodling: Art journaling follow up #AprilBlogADay
A little over a week ago, I shared a post about art journaling in the classroom. Since then, I have made some progress in coming up with a plan to incorporate art journals into my classroom. Social media is a magical place. A few days ago, I was perusing my Twitter feed when I happened […]