Please peruse this website to learn more about my teaching experience in and outside of a science classroom. Enjoy! -Mariah Keagy
Why Science? Why Teaching? Why Inquiry?
If education is hands-on...
it engages your senses and activates connections. When I learn about a place, culture, foreign tree or plant, I want to experience it. I like to dig in the dirt and explore outside my door, where I can breathe and touch the world that surrounds me. I find the experience of using this place, the place outside my door, behind my house or tent to be my perfect classroom. I have found nothing in education as satisfying as creating a greater understanding and deeper experience of the natural world around us.
If science is taught using inquiry and problem solving...
pH testing of Winooski watershed,
Compass School
it comes alive, and can create a greater understanding and connection to the world around us. In science education I see the possibility to connect students with the world around them and the many processes that are taking place inside and outside of themselves, and within the world at large.