Blog for Biology and Environmental Science Educators
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
My goal as a teacher is to provide my students with the support and encouragement to become the best they can be. We will explore biology and environmental science as separate sciences and how they cooperate with each other. Environmental issues are an everyday occurrence. We will investigate what we can do as individuals within our communities to make a positive difference on the world around us. I invite you to join me on this journey as I work towards my teaching goals.
First of all thank you for visiting my blog. My name is Ryan and I am a graduate student at UW Milwaukee in the School of Education. I am studying curriculum and instruction and my goal is to be a middle school Biology and Environmental Science teacher. I live between Milwaukee and Madison on a hobby farm I share with my wife and three sons. We raise goats, turkeys, and pigs which keeps us very busy when we are not at work or school. I have a passion for the outdoors and our natural resources.
For the past 20+ my career was law enforcement. The last 13 years of my career I was a Conservation Warden for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. That is me in the photo below giving a trapping and wildlife management presentation at the Farmington All-Stars 4-H club. I enjoyed teaching these programs so much I decided that teaching would be my next career path.
This is a photo I took of a white deer in Jefferson County. She is the perfect example of science being all around us. A small change in her genetic coding that controls pigmentation and “POOF”.
This is a site that I have found useful and I plan on using it as I continue this journey. https://sciencespot.net/index.html
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