My Science Story

This summer I watched sparrow parents take care of their babies. They were working so hard feeding their babies, cleaning the nest, and guiding them on their first flight. In the past ten years since I moved to US, I have had more time and opportunity to build my connections with nature and with science than I have had before. I have immensely enjoyed camping in Rangeley lake and Smokey mountains, visiting Yellowstone and Grand Canyon, or just biking the rail trails. As a high school student, I remember feeling excited about going to Physics, Chemistry, or Biology lab. It was facinating to dissect earthworm, frog and some species of flowers to study what is inside them that is so similar to us. But my real passion for science came with my first year teaching physical science to 6th graders and life science to 7th graders. Teaching them simple machines, work concepts with use of examples from everyday life, and to admire the detail structures of plants and animals using a microscope was fascinating. The various sciences became much more alive when I started teaching them. Athough I am trained in math, I find teaching science more interesting than math as it is so much more easier to connect it with our life and with the world around us.

I look forward to learning more about science with you all.