Heather Thompson

PhD candidate. Love scuba, traveling, & science! A high school chemistry teacher, and exhairstylist.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

and I think we have to be careful when we say things like it's a calling, or I didn't get into it for the money, because the public hears " I am fine being underpaid or willing to make less" and the truth is that every educator in every role deserves more pay.

[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

@DavidEnard As a chemistry teacher I constantly spiral back in previous content that is connected to current topic. When I taught ochem I did the same thing. E.g. electronegativity is rarely mentioned let alone stressed as to why atoms are doing what they do in rxn.

[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

@DavidEnard Most profs have very little pedagogy training and some don’t care to. My 1st ochem professor while getting my chem undergrad read from the book and rarely explained anything.

[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

Babies being born right now were conceived at the beginning of the quarantine. 🤔

[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

Thank you to all the students who put forth the effort

[Adri @adri_holmes00]

My professor teaching to class on zoom:

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Me, trying to prevent my professor from teaching into the void:

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[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

Oh Alexa, you’re so cute

[Alexa @AmazonAlexa]

If you ask me in a year what happened on this day in history, I hope I can say it was the day we first became Twitter friends 💙

Follow me to keep up with your newest AI pal!

[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

I got Teal. That fits pretty well since I don’t think purple was available. Find your back to school hue from ⁦@TICalculators⁩ https://t.co/fTQZCld9qc

[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

Made it 2 and a half weeks teaching virtually. https://t.co/DsiXbtOaNm

[Melissa ⇌ Hemling @chemhemling]

I made some chemist "seat-fillers" for my classroom to help my students socially distance properly. While I could not say no to #mendeleev and #avogadro I focused on underrepresented minorities. #BlackinChem #LatinXinChem #WomeninChem #LGBTQinChem #chemed https://t.co/ggFz2wfOuJ

[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

@puttichem @BBrockChem So cute! What a great idea. I may have to order some fabric paint and upgrade my boring masks 😃

[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

@KeithAnliker I vote to add teacher shortage to that list.

[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

The face of so many of us as we “transition” to online class.

[Keith Anliker 💎 I like teaching philosophy haiku @KeithAnliker]

My current Chem C101 enrollment is 634. I’m quite sure it doesn’t matter at this point that it keeps going up by 5 or 10 every day, but . . . .

[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

Purple bougainvillea https://t.co/F8AbYQ0jXI

[Heather Thompson @Elemental_H]

Pink bougainvillea https://t.co/eaVExUpoh4

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

I may have retired from NASA, but science never stops! To this day, @StationCDRKelly and I participate in NASA’s “Twins Study” to better understand the long-term effects on the human body of living in space.

[Mashable @mashable]

NASA calls NGC 1614 a "peculiar galaxy." https://t.co/vDl4Y1khc9

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Possible Caption: “Junior, go save that small brained mammal over there. Looks like he needs help.”

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