Natalie Schifsky

Wife to Andrew, Mother to Lily & Harper, Unconventional STEM educator who wants to change the way we reach students at the SPS Academy of Exploration @AOESPS

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AOE takes @NSTA! ⚜️
A great way to end our time at the National Science Teaching Association fall national conference was to present on major unit projects and student choice.
Bonus: we had a current and a former AOE student with us via Zoom to share as well!
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Starting the morning presenting about the @AOESPS at the National Conference on Science Education in New Orleans 🥼👩‍🔬🔬🧬 @NSTA @officialSPS

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The @Quizizz booth - 5️⃣6️⃣3️⃣ - is the place to be at #NSTAFall24!! 🎉 💜

Live competitions, SWAG, and tons of great ideas to use in the science classroom!
#quizizzforscience #NOLA24! #NSTA #SciEd

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Checked in and ready for @NSTA National Conference in New Orleans! ✅🥼👩‍🔬🧬
Excited to present with @MsRobbinsSGF about @AOESPS and student choice in STEM. @officialSPS

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Science on a Saturday?!?!?! 🥼🧪👩‍🔬

AOE Students rocked our FIRST Science Olympiad competion @MissouriState

They competed in toothpick towers, water filtration, leaf ID, egg drop, and estimania. We took home several awards and had a blast! @officialSPS #STEM

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First day ✅
We spent today getting to know each other and building our community!
Students got to conquer some STEM challenges, problem solve, and practice alternative ways to communicate!
#BacktoSPS
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Ready to innovate some more for @AOESPS ! #GOInnovate24 @officialSPS

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Welcome to The Academy of EXPLORation!
We’re only 3 days into #ExploreSPS @ AOE and we’re having a blast!
Planning road trips, building and creating, and of course SNACKING!
With a summer like this, it’s a shame we only have 4 weeks together.
🍪🍇🚧👩🏻‍🍳
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Tonight was our final major unit project: Treasures & Treats!
T&T was a student-created, planned, & executed fundraiser to raise $ for experiences & lab coats.
Bake sale, gem jewelry, mining experiences, carnival games, a petting zoo & photo booths! 💎🎟️🧁
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Rain can’t keep us down! At the last minute, we shifted from an all-day outdoor field trip to a digital scavenger hunt at the @BattlefieldMall. We enjoyed exploring and making a few more memories together for the year.
The ice cream was a nice bonus 🍦
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We had a blast today hunting for fossils and chillin’ with Henry the Triceratops at the Museum of Natural Science! We’ve decided the world should know @CityofSgf for Henry! The largest triceratops in the WORLD! 🌎
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Fort building + independent reading = Great way to end state testing weeks! 📚📖⛺️ @officialSPS #SPSChoice

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Get ready for our final showcase of this year! AOE Treasures & Treats is coming up fast!
Join us at AOE on Tuesday May 21st for a showcase fundraiser! We’ll have baked goods, and student created mining bags and gem jewelry!
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Today we put our science, research, and shopping to good use in our @BravoTopChef challenge!

The winning dishes were:
🥉yogurt parfait w/ macerated berries 🍦
🥈whipped pink lemonade 🍋
🥇Sparkling Strawberry Lemonade🍓

They tasted as good as they looked!
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Today we shopped @HyVee for ingredients to participate in a @BravoTopChef style challenge. Students will have 30 minutes to make a chemical or physical change to a mixture or a solution. Our judges are no @tomcolicchio, but we hope we can impress them anyway. 👩🏻‍🍳🛒
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Yesterday we celebrated 2️⃣5️⃣ new badges for critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, & leadership! Students have been working so hard to earn their star points in these areas and our April Assembly was the best way to celebrate our scientists!
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There’s a new tree on The Hill, y’all!
Today we had our tree dedication ceremony and Arbor Day Celebration and got to highlight our very own Rowen who won first place and is featured in the calendar! 🌳🗓️
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Penny Wars are officially over; we raised a total of $1,300 for @ConvoyofHope! We visited today to tour their amazing facility & donate. @Ethan_Forhetz showed us all the amazing places, parts, & people while we dreamed of ways we can help during the next disaster♥️🤝
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While we geeked out on our chapter books, the students making PSAs visited @OTCedu’s media department and the new manufacturing center. It’s hard to say who had the better time today. We all had a blast! 🎥👩‍🏭⚙️
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We had the most amazing time today at the @OTCedu Writing Center! We got time to work on our final edits for our I Survived inspired historical fiction chapter books. It was so great to be able to share our work and make it even better with the help of the crew! ✍️🦅