Field Trip Gets Elementary School Students Excited About STEM
December 13, 2022 by Lisa Chinn Marvashti
Elephant toothpaste. The giant glob of sudsy foam created in a classroom experiment gave Battlefield Elementary School student Aidan Muller a thought: “Chemistry is cool!” The whimsical tooth wash – hydrogen peroxide mixed with dish soap and a healthy dose of imagination – was part of a fall field trip designed to get students excited […]
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College of Education, City Spin New Type of Story
July 7, 2021 by Jill Laiacona
Each time Melissa Wells has taught “Literature and the Arts in Elementary Classrooms,” her students have partnered with local teachers to create children’s books to use in their classes. That wasn’t an option after the pandemic hit, said Wells, an assistant professor in University of Mary Washington’s College of Education (COE). But her colleague, Leslie […]
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Young Alumna Wins County-Wide New Elementary Teacher Award
June 28, 2021 by Jill Laiacona
When Amelia Carr taught her kindergartners to recognize words by sight, she got a little help from her siblings. In a YouTube video, the trio belts out Sister Sledge’s ’70s anthem We Are Family, with Carr demonstrating on a whiteboard how to write the word “we.” For her ingenuity, passion and knack for making learning […]
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UMW Professors Find Creative Ways to Teach Through COVID-19
April 29, 2020 by Jill Laiacona
Teaching at Mary Washington looks a bit different lately. Andi Smith films YouTube videos with her children to demonstrate architectural principles. Zach Whalen uses cartoons to teach a digital studies lesson. Smita Jain Oxford holds Zoom office hours for business majors on her daily jog. When the University moved to virtual classes last month due […]
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Professor Wins Grant to Pen Open Education Textbook
March 4, 2020 by Jill Laiacona
It’s a dilemma faced by many students on financial aid. Funds often don’t hit accounts until a few weeks into the semester, so students can’t purchase textbooks, and they risk falling behind. Melissa Wells, an assistant professor in UMW’s College of Education (COE), knows this scenario all too well. That’s why she’s designing an Open […]
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Arts-Fused STEM Equals Student Success
June 18, 2018 by Kristin Davis
It started as a standard third-grade science lesson – how the tilt of the Earth causes the seasons to change. Now a group of future educators looked over a Greek play that gave a wholly different version of how summer turns to fall. Under the direction of a UMW theatre professional, they acted out the […]
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Arts-Fused STEM Equals Student Success
June 18, 2018 by Kristin Davis
It started as a standard third-grade science lesson – how the tilt of the Earth causes the seasons to change. Now a group of future educators looked over a Greek play that gave a wholly different version of how summer turns to fall. Under the direction of a UMW theatre professional, they acted out the […]
Filed Under: mwells, Top Stories Tagged With: jreynol2
