Jason Garver

Astrophysics | Coffee | M.Ed @UMN_CEHD alum | Physics Teacher | Sometimes Danish 🇩🇰 | #iteachphysics

[Harding High School Physics @Physics_Knights]

Students are so nice to their teachers sometimes (see what the student added in on the left) #hiphoped

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

Well i understand why science teachers struggle to assign creative projects.

All I want is for my students to write a freaking poem or rap about energy.

Doing this equitably... While also requesting rigor... While in distance learning... Is no joke.

#iteachphysics

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

@janarwhal Not a dumb question at all, just means high school for the US (grades 6-8 sometimes included).

However with how much math and reading I teach, physics does seem "secondary"...

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

@janarwhal I teach secondary physics but also have and still do study astrophysics/cosmology.

I have particular interest in relativity and early universe physics (big bang, cosmic microwave background)!

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

You know I've watched @nasa mission control during exciting space events many times.

Every time after all the excitement and clapping as everyone sits back down, there's always one person standing in awe looking at the big screen.

It never fails!. #CountdownToMars

[Mike Brown does not X @plutokiller]

I am delighted to report that "is Pluto a planet?" is no longer the most tedious question in astronomy, as that honor has now been taken by "was 'Oumuamua an alien spaceship?" Conveniently, the answer to both is the same.

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

So far I've learned a big lesson talking with students about barriers girls face in STEM:

They are very aware of the barriers. They face the barriers. They don't need me to explain the barriers.

#WomenInScience

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

2020 Physics Laureate Andrea Ghez: then and now.

As a young girl, Ghez loved mathematics and all types of puzzles. She would grow up to become an astronomer proving that something massive, most likely a black hole, is lurking at the center of our Milky Way.

#WomeninScience

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

@msruggerio @brianwfrank @MartaStoeckel @treddtaylor @ScienceSprout @KatyDornbos @PaulCottlePhys Embrace wrong answers and help students do the same.

[Harding High School Physics @Physics_Knights]

Students want to know: Has anyone eaten pizza in space?

@NASA #AskNASA

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

@dinachka82 It makes for hilarious auto-corrects

[Women in Science @WiS_MGHMartinos]

Thank you @MGHRadDiversity for your support today and every day! #InternationalWomenInScienceDay

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

My quarter long focus on #WomenInSTEM is definitely a learning experience.

As a male teacher my approach so far has been:

1) Provide some data to start the conversation
2) ... Shut. Up.

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

Talking about imposter syndrome when i don't don't feel qualified to be the one talking about imposter syndrome is just hilarious.

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

Today in unsurprising data: during a conversation about the lack of female astronauts, boys spoke 2.1 times more than girls.

Despite a discourse structure leaving time for people who have not spoken.

**Girls outnumber boys in the class.

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

Teaching gravitational potential energy in distance learning greatly annoys me.

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

Today a student asked: if water waves travel in water and sound waves travel in air, what do light waves travel in?

Goodbye lesson, hello history of Planck, Einstein, and friends.

[Jason Garver @AstroJasonG]

My phone just autocorrected "gradschool" to "hell"....

[Harding High School Physics @Physics_Knights]

Summary of almost 100% of student reaction to the fact that NASA has struggled to include women in the space program:

"That's pretty dumb tbh"

But don't worry @NASA_Astronauts, tomorrow we're talking all about the positive steps NASA has taken and their successes

[Harding High School Physics @Physics_Knights]

Students watched a video that outlined how NASA's lack of medium spacesuits which are used more by women

Student response: "NASA has the money to buy rocket ships that are so expensive and you're telling me you can't find the right size of a suit? That's an excuse right there"