Rob Jackson

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

I presented at my first national conference! NSTA 2022 in Houston was a blast, and I learned so much! Can’t wait till the next time I get to reconnect with my fellow National STEM scholars!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Recreating Darwin’s finches, where students “colonize” four islands with four types of “food” to observe how natural selection works.

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Egg drop! Those who survived the medium and high heights got to test their design against an axe handle as a baseball bat!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

My classroom seismometer picked up earthquakes from last Wednesday (magnitude 4.3) and Saturday (magnitude 3.8)! The earthquakes originated in Salina, KS.

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Harvesting our first crop of lettuce and making salads! Many of the kids who “don’t like salads” loved this and asked for more!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Demonstrating that rust reactions absorb oxygen and create vacuums. Next step is to observe mass changes in closed vs open systems.

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

We have fish! PBL is fun and effective, but sometimes it feels one step short of chaos!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Our first plants started sprouting in our aquaponics class!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

3 days of trainings sponsored by the NSF! Grateful for this opportunity to enhance my teaching of life sciences!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Experimenting and learning about how primary colors with lights are different from primary colors with paints.

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Listening to the walls! We are using the building and the sound panels to learn about sound absorption and reflection.

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Showing our students our love by writing something that we appreciate about each and every one of them!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Celebrating some of our rockstar virtual students. We had trouble narrowing down our students of the month to just two, so we went with six! Thank you to these young individuals who make teaching fun!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Science teacher Christmas! Looks like I need to learn how to use Raspberry Pi’s before my seismometers arrive.

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

PBL project about asteroid impacts and how NASA engineers plan to alter the paths of asteroids before they hit Earth.

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

We’ve got our recognition wall started. Hoping to add more stingray students in the near future!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

First days of robotics practice this year!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Hypothesis Boxes - Getting other teachers hooked on a puzzle and problem solving activity I picked up at my STEM workshop this summer. Puzzles are fun!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

I have a new science toy! We used the Van De Graaf generator to introduce the third type of energy in our physics unit, electromagnetic energy!

[Rob Jackson @RobJacksonSMS]

Gravity demo. This is a 2D model of our 3D universe. Or more accurately it is a 3D model of our 4 dimensional universe.