Areas

Development

With several different organizations, I have developed lessons, multimedia, and activities for classroom use.
  • Inquiry-driven lessons based on ongoing scientific research for middle & high school science classrooms, sponsored by ComSciCon & BiteScis.  Topics include: convergent evolution, conservation of momentum, human running & impulse.  Lessons available here.
  • Animations illustrating concepts from neurobiology, with MCB80x.  Scroll down for more information.​
  • Co-host of a professional development workshop for high school science teachers on Methods in Field Ecology.  Co-designed an aquatic ecology, inquiry-based, fieldwork-themed lesson plan and guide, and collaborated with teachers to adapt contents for their specific classrooms.
More details are available here ​and below.
​Learning Lab Graduate Fellowship
Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

​As a 2016-2018 graduate fellow with the Bok Center's Learning Lab, my primary role was to create/revamp and test (with undergrads) multimedia content for Harvard classrooms, and to develop and teach workshops on science communication (scicomm).  We define "multimedia" loosely - encompassing drawing, video, movement...in short, anything non-lecture.  See our ongoing work on Flickr.  
​Bok Center, 2016.  Used with permission.
Activities:
-Development of lessons/assignments for undergraduate and graduate students. Areas include: reading scientific papers, science communication, concept videos, curation, and object-based teaching
-Leading seminars/teaching fellow trainings on making & teaching with multimedia
-Organizing/running science communications workshops, ranging in duration from an hour to a week
-Collaborating with Massive, a science media outlet, to develop strategies for training students in scientific writing
-Audio/visual support for professors
-Support for student & EdPortal multimedia projects

Experience

Traditional

Traditional undergraduate courses.
  • Biology of Fishes
  • Human Anatomy & Physiology

Guest lectures
  • Predatory-Prey Interactions
  • Water Quality for Stream Fishes
  • Evolution (high school level)

Non-traditional

Education beyond the classroom.
  • MC80x: Fundamentals of Neuroscience
  • Museum-based teaching
  • Making Concept Videos workshop
  • ​Scicomm workshops
  • Marine Biology gallery trainings
  • Teaching assistant trainings