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    • Genetics Vocabulary
    • Meiosis - Can't Make Babies Without Meiosis
    • Cell Division
    • DNA Structure & Replication Vocabulary
    • Homeostasis
    • Membrane Transport Vocabulary
    • Membrane Simulation
    • Photosynthesis Vocabulary Week 15 - 16
    • Photosynthesis - 2 Virtual Labs to study effect of light intensity and color
    • ATP and Fermentation Vocabulary Week 13
    • Cell Organelle Vocabulary & Tutorials Week 12
    • Cell Organelles Online Learning
    • Prokaryote and Eukaryote Cells Vocabulary Week 11
    • Enzymes Vocabulary week 9
    • Enzyme Animations
    • Simulation Enzyme Reaction Lab
    • Macromolecules: Vocabulary Week 7
    • Properties of Water Vocabulary Week 5
    • Characteristics of Life
    • Features of a Controlled Experiment
    • Controlled Experiment Vocabulary
    • BELOW HERE......... not yet
    • Ecosystem Energy Vocabulary
    • Speciation Vocabulary
    • Evolution
    • Evolution Simulations and Games
    • Genetic Engineering Vocabulary
    • DNA --> Amino Acids --> LIFE
    • Gene Mutation Diseases
    • Electrophoresis practice
    • Paramecium Online Lab 9/28
    • Ecology Simulations and Games
    • Ecology Relationships
    • Molecular Workbench
    • BIOLOGY REVIEW
    • Virtual Frog Dissection
    • Niches and Relationships in an Ecosystem
    • Virtual Lab - Elodea & Snails in an Aquarium
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The Book

12/27/2022

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Shonkalay is more than a word. It's soon to be a book.  
​Thirty-One Years of Shonkalay is at the beta-read stage
What is it like to teach in an urban school surrounded my wealthy suburbs and Amish farms? 

Thirty-one years of Shonkalay is about the struggle to become authentic and stay true to ideals in an organization that rewarded conformity. It follows the challenges of teaching science in Lancaster, PA and shows why it helped to have three masters degrees.
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Documents and journals collected in 31 years. 
Videos mentioned in the book...
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"I could use that..."

6/21/2021

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I was watching "Ask This Old House" yesterday and as they explained how a toilet functioned like a siphon by siphoning water out or a bucket, I thought, "I could use that to teach adhesion and cohesion...I wish I had used that example...Oh yeah, I'm not going to teach properties of water next year." 

I still feel the rush to get as much done as possible before the return to school and the opening of the "show." I tell myself that this summer will never end, but my nervous system registers hurry.

I started by going through students comments from the late 1990s. Many expressed appreciation for how much fun my class was. Others talked about friends, sports and such. Even those who drew me kicking them out of class - we had love for each other. I feel sad for losing that energy by leaving teaching. 
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    After teaching for 31 years, I left the building for the last time last Thursday, June 10, 2021.

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