Saturday, December 28, 2013

What I'm doing now

So I am currently getting my Master's in Science Education at SUNY Buffalo State College here in Buffalo (duh). The first semester is down, and next up I have my student teaching placements and writing my Master's thesis (on top of planning a wedding... it's going to be a busy few months).

The program I'm in at Buff State is pretty awesome. It's for people who studied a science as an undergrad (or beyond, in my case) and then decided they want to teach. So my class consists of me (the marine biologist), a chemist, a physicist, a geologist, a meteorologist, and so on. We all have the science requirements needed to teach in our content areas, but not the teaching and education background, so that's what this year-long program is for.

It's very fun: lots of nerdy science things, and people like me who are excited to get kids excited about science.

Speaking of getting excited about science, here's a cool picture of sea star tube feet taken at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco: