Whew, this year has gotten away from me! I started teaching in a new district and surprise, surprise, I was starting from scratch with the curriculum! The district made the change from teaching solely physical science at 9th grade to a more integrated approach. While,...

"New Hampshire gets earthquakes?" was a common question today as we dove into day 3 of Natural Hazards. Today was also not the day to wear a dress, as I got down on the floor to demonstrate P and S waves. I wish I had thought to have the students videotape me but here...

It would be “Introduction to Google Sign On” or “My tech savvy students are not tech savvy”. It was painful. I spent way too much time walking students through Google Sign On so they could go through my edPuzzle videos. Too much time changing passwords and too much tim...

I ran a Harry potter themed Escape the Classroom game last night, "Escape from Gringotts". I spent way too much time creating all the props and clues but my effort was DEFINATELY not in vain! Now, I do have to mention that it has been several years since I read the Har...

We have jumped full on into maple sugaring season here in New Hampshire. Three years ago, we began tapping some of the maples on our property as an experiment. Our previous property had very few maples, and the ones we did have were only saplings. We began with approxi...

I have spent the past 6 weeks running Escape the Classroom events at the local Makerspace, with my Girl Scout Troop, and for my nieces and nephews for Christmas. While I rejuvenate my creative juices and design more games, check out these great photos from the past gam...

The world of codes, ciphers and cryptology has dominated my thoughts and teaching these past few months between my Escape the Classroom and Breakout games and teaching lessons on binary code. As I researched some ideas to update my binary code lesson, I started to thin...

I recently started running Escape the Classroom/BreakoutEDU games at the local Makerspace. I find with all my lessons and activities I can not leave things as they are originally written. I started with the Mad Engineer's Heist game from BreakoutEDU but what I ended up...

Did you know, the floor of Boelter Hall at UCLA has a coded message in binary code?  I started looking for ways that binary code was used in "real life" or ways binary was used in cryptology and I came across an article about the floor of Boelter Hall. The message in t...

I recently covered an Engineering Technology class and was asked to teach them my lesson on Binary Code to a group of 5th graders. I love filling in at this school because they really allow me to use my strengths and dig into my bag of tricks. I havent taught this less...