Your Inner Fish

Last school year I had the pleasure of teaching high school Honors Biology to our 8th grade students for the first time. I was nervous of course, even though my background is in Biology. This is a course that is tied to a state mandated test so naturally it worried me a bit. 

Evolution is one of those topics that can be difficult to grasp because of the number of misconceptions out there, not to mention having a class of 13 and 14 year old kids trying to understand all the concepts that relate to Evolution. I attended a workshop to help with resources for the course and a veteran teacher of Biology recommended this book to help teach Biology to the students. I decided to include it my personal summer reading and so far the book is great! I am hoping to include the book into my curriculum this year since I will be teaching 2 sections of Honors Biology to our incoming 8th grade class. 

I'll review the book shortly when I finish this summer :) 

Do you have any great books you like to incorporate into your secondary science lessons? I would love to learn about others!

New Dreams

Welcome to post one of my new blog, Science Beans! I figured since I am participating in the TPT Seller Challenge hosted by a few other bloggers and I wanted to start an education blog, I feel that my first post should be about the "Dare to Dream" challenge 2. Here are my goals for the future:

Inspire other teachers: I am still considered a newbie in the teaching profession. In my 3 years of teaching (now going into my 4th) I've come across some veteran teachers who are amazing, and some who are uninterested in anything that relates to new strategies. I like being able to try new things in the classroom to keep everyone interested (including myself). I hope I can inspire my colleagues to want to try new resources or technology and feel excited about teaching again!

Start a blog: I have been wanting to start a blog about teaching and all the stuff I have been using in my classroom. There is only so much I can share with my husband before he goes insane! So here is to the beginning of my new blog.

Promote my store & create more resources: I created my TPT store in the summer of 2014 but I had been using it since 2013 when I started teaching. I noticed there were very few resources for  middle and high school science. So I decided that I wanted to share all of my own classroom goodies with other teachers. I hope to continue to add products to the store!

Inspire kids to love science & the environment: When I started teaching a few years ago, a lot of my students would come to me with their minds made up that they hated science. They felt there was no way I could change that, but I did! Showing them how excited and passionate I was about science and the environment made them want to know more. I hope I can continue to that in the classroom and beyond. 

Start a family: I am a newly wed (6 months in!) and I would love to start a family soon! I know people have their opinions "you should wait!" , "don't wait too long!", but I would love to have a little one running around :)