Many choices we make in our daily lives can have an impact on the water quality of rivers and streams around us. Animals like the eastern hellbender need clean water for their habitats, and they ...

I couldn’t have been more prepared for my first year as a 9th grade math teacher in Chicago. Or so I thought. I brushed up on my skills over the summer by working through Pre-Algebra and Algebra ...

This is my second post in this series. Check out the first one here. Two years ago I was a member of a hiring committee at my school. Along with two administrators, one other teacher, and a parent, I ...

This lesson plan teaches students how the human body self-regulates to maintain a stable internal environment despite changes in the external environment -- a process called homeostasis. Most of the ...