Back to fully in person classes for the first time since March 2020. I’m exhausted! Adding lecture and lab together 4 days a week feels like a lot. Students are engaged though and ready to learn! #Teachers

Update to #bioplastics project. Students stretch,heat and freeze pieces tomorrow, but today some bad news. MOLD! Trying to figure out the source since it hasn’t happened before! #processofscience #ScienceTwitter my guess: ventilation was off over the weekend… or summer heat!💡?

Starting/joining an #ungrading community of practice with other faculty, we can request a budget! What conferences are top for #ungrading? #facultydevelopment

#inquiry #experimentaldesign let students use and improve their science skills! Burning 🔥 up Cheetos in homemade calorimeters. They improved their heat transfer over two weeks and 4-5 trials.

Energy struggles. first semester I’m back to teaching all in person and it is utterly exhausting. I question how I did it before the pandemic with even smaller children. Maybe I was just on auto pilot then and now I think a lot more about how I should care for myself and time.

A million times yes!

#ChemTwitter best easy to navigate websites to find Lewis structures for smaller organic molecules. For an intro chem course that doesn’t have a lot of experience navigating google for proper images.

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