Anyone want to join Alaska Science Teachers Association?

We have a website that we struggle to keep updated because our membership has dwindled through pandemic and general teacher overload. http://aksta.org

Every one of you who chose to learn more about our “backyards” over the summer models the kind of motivation ASTA would love to support. Check out the website and consider whether you could be part of a network of teachers who encourages each other despite or because of the challenges we face in fitting in GOOD science education K-12.

Thanks for considering it!

Author: Patricia Brown

I am Patty Brown and I have lived in Haines for 28 years. From 1995-2017, I taught middle school science in the K-12 school and also had stints where I taught fourth grade, middle school math, natural resources, PE, and Spanish. Before I was a teacher I was a park ranger for 20 years in California and in Alaska. Noticing and knowing plants always has made me feel more grounded and more connected to the place. It stimulates my curiosity when I see plants I have never seen before and when I see familiar ones growing in a place that surprises me. One year I climbed the highest peak in Costa Rica and hiking through one section, I saw a plant community that closely resembled that of the foothills of California where I had grown up. At the peak at 10,000 feet, bamboo was growing!

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Author: Patricia Brown