Hello!

• My name is Jennifer Coe, and I am working on my MAT certification/degree in Living Environments.

• I am not currently teaching in a middle/high school classroom, although I have been teaching part-time for the last 6 years at local community colleges.

• This semester, I am teaching 5 classes, each with 20-30 students in them.

I’ve had some great experiences in the past…

I earned my BA in Anthropology.

I first learned the power of a hands-on lesson while doing field school in New Mexico.

5 weeks in the desert will do that to you!

Pre-MAT

I did graduate work in Physical Anthropology…

That’s the biology side of the field that includes genetics, osteology,

primatology, forensics…the fun stuff!

After two years though, I decided that I didn’t want to spend the next decade in

a room full of skeletons (literally).

So, I spent the next ten years working in various youth organizations and camps.

I created and ran programs about all the fun things that

I like to do…

Hiking, birds, outdoors, geology, archaeology, marine biology, zoology,

genetics

….the list goes on….

I’ve also unmercifully used my three nieces as guinea pigs…

No, that’s my real guinea pig… Cinnamon!

Bird Banding

Geocaching

Skeleton Making

Fossil Collecting

Walking in the Woods

TodayI teach Anthropology and Sociology part time at SUNY JCC and

online through SUNY GCC, and subject my classes to a wide variety of student-centered

and inquiry-based learning activities!

Learning the Scientific Method

Experiencing the importance

of opposable thumbs

Dissecting owl pellets

Analyzing Skeletal material

In my classroomI try to integrate 21st technology into many of our projects.

For students to report classroom data.

To create a classroom web site and blog.

To post class lectures.

During the SummerI continue to work with youth as the Summer Camp Director

for Camp Fire USA- Alaska Council.

There, I have the chance to see some amazing wildlife….

…and teach lessons in wildlife and conservation to campers and staff.

Goodbye!

Thank you for viewing and I look forward to working with you this semester.