Jane Altemen

Helping kids calcify science knowledge into understanding. I can come to your school and help K to 8 tchrs inquire into science.

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

IMO Stop calling it Homework. Call it Spaced Retrieval. And if it’s not that, don’t assign it.

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

@MONTMAIT @marcellevleenen Love both Maite (and Marcelle). Also stealing your THINK poster!

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

@intrepidteacher The Elegance of the Hedgehog

[Icas - Wild Animal Conservation Institute @IcasWild]

The black stripe of a #GiantAnteater allows the female to camouflage its cub atop her back, as the stripe of her cub perfectly aligns with hers! Carrying it also makes her silhouette looks bigger, convenient to deter predators! How amazing is this?
Day 21 of #AnimalArtober: FUR

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

@intrepidteacher AND ... how the way we feel about something depends on how we acquired it
When everything in the market was free, she showed restraint, took only what she needed but if it had been cheap, she would have scooped up loads...

Robin Wall Kimmerer needs to be president of the world

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

@intrepidteacher I adored this book. So much to learn from it. When her colleagues scoffed at her query about why goldenrod and purple grew together and it turned out one of the cones in bee eyeballs is primed for that combo! PONED!

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

@intrepidteacher And wouldnt our rampant consumerism be different if we were sensitive tothe lives given for ours. To consider the tree in the Kleenex, the algae in the toothpaste, the grapes in the wine. Once you start it's hard to stop and you feel yourself awash in gifts.

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

Inexplicable

[Kirsten Han @kixes]

Follow-up:

[Feroza Aziz @ferozaazizz]

Here is a trick to getting longer lashes! #tiktok #muslim #muslimmemes #islam

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

Enduring learning for sure!

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

@TangerineHelps Hi. We live in Thailand. My dad has banked with you for years. He wants us to open an account with you to make it easy for him to transfer gifts to us. Are we able to open an account by commuicating with you online? Thanks.

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

Sts misconceptions need to be pulled out and sat front and center. Found this Francis Bacon pearl, "For what a man likes to be true, he more readily believes." Commen sense misconceptions are not trivial mistakes.

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

#NISTis Crafting a new Mindfulness plan

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

Wondering if I can paraphrase @KyleneBeers by replacing 'READ' with 'DO SCIENCE' for my science workshop: If we teach a child to DO SCIENCE but fail to develop a desire to DO SCIENCE, we will have created a NON-INQUIRER; a TEMPLATE-FOLLOWING CLOSED MIND.

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

Must be sure I'm not "teaching" when i should be "helping them learn". Activities that only reinforce what I TOLD them don't let them access and modify their own ideas.

[Jane Altemen @janeiac]

Alfie Kohn reminds me of why I don't like Class Dojo: "Reward programs are controlling and counterproductive even when they’re implemented with a cute app."

[AZA @zoos_aquariums]

BREAKING NEWS: #InvestInTheNest project launches on #Kickstarter to save African Penguins from extinction! https://t.co/fa3f3FPeAq

[Monterey Bay Aquarium @MontereyAq]

We’re teaming up with @zoos_aquariums to help save the critically endangered African penguin from extinction! #InvestInTheNest #Kickstarter

[Zoos Saving Species @ZoosSaveSpecies]

Thank you @TheEllenShow for caring for elephants as much as zoos do! #BeKindToElephants #JoinZoosAndSaveSpecies #SavingSpecies #Conservation #Education #Zoo #Zoos #BringBackTheWild #ZoosMatter https://t.co/REjkO2NYLT