Lauren Parker
@parkerlaurenb
I'm a nerdy 7th and 8th grade science teacher with a love for all things space. I'm going to be an astronaut when I grow up!
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http://www.fwacademy.org 09-09-2011 01:50:40
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Love when students jump right in to test their own questions. During an investigation on gravitropism, a student asked “well what if the light and gravity are coming from the same direction?” Let’s find out! #ExoLab8 magnitudeio
Things starting to feel normal. So glad 8th graders Fort Worth Academy got to have their roller coaster design trip to Six Flags. Lauren Parker
So excited to get this year started. Love my school and my teaching partner Lauren Parker Fort Worth Academy
Mars Hab construction day and crazy hat day fun #themartian Lauren Parker Fort Worth Academy
Thanks to Anna from @CrumblCookies for taking the time to Zoom with Fort Worth Academy 8th graders about #entrepreneurship and the cookie testing process!
Studying hominin adaptations like paleoanthroplogists using mandibles and skulls. Thanks to @MollySelba Human Evolution Teaching Materials Project for the awesome resources!
Thank you to ISS National Lab for an amazing night at The Infinite Experience where we were transported to the ISS! Using a well done VR experience, I was on a space walk, having dinner with astronauts, and looking down on Earth from the cupola. Thanks for spoiling these teachers!
Fun last day of spring break with Lauren Parker setting up Space Week Fort Worth Academy
8th graders Fort Worth Academy worked inside our space station designing lunar landers Lauren Parker
Great day in 7th grade planting alfalfa for magnitudeio’s #ExoLab-10 Carbon Farmer! We’ll see who made the best selections from the “soil salad bar” and grew the largest plant! Thank you to Space Station Explorers for making this happen!
Congratulations to the very 1st Tony So Excellence in Education Award winner, Fort Worth Academy science teacher Lauren Parker. Tony So, co-founder of magnitudeio, was a friend & partner to the National Lab whose passion for STEM inspired us all. Details: issnationallab.org/iss360/tony-so…
Ahhhhh! Shark Attack! I love my #SharkWeek from Discovery and the learning material from Discovery Education! Taking a bite out of science instruction. #STATCAST22 Lauren Parker
Thanks to Fort Worth Academy Zero-G ISS National Lab Space Station Explorers WI Space Grant for making this possible!
Loving Camp CrunchLabs this summer. #CampCrunchLabsContest. This week G learned about forced perspective
More fun with CrunchLabs boxes and #campcrunchlabscontest challenges making paper airplanes fly themselves!