Mrs. Sukkestad's Science Web Page
WELCOME LETTER Welcome to Jenkins High School!!! :0) I am so glad to be spending this school year with you as we explore the wonderful world of High School!!!
This Science Teacher
I have been teaching for 18 years in the Savannah Chatham County Public School System. I have taught AP Chemistry and AP Environmental Science, Honors Chemistry, Chemistry 1, Environmental Science 1, Oceanography, Physical Science 9th Grade, and Biology. I did teach at Coastal Middle School and taught 6th grade Earth Science. I have a Master of Science in Marine Science and a Bachelor of Science in Biology. I received my professional education certification in grades 6-12 in August 2006. I am a gifted certified Educator, a certified Special Education Educator as well as broad-field certified in Science. My professional learning goal for 2018-2019 was to to become a Google Certified Educator. I did become a Google Certified Educator. During the 2019-2020 school year I wrote a grant using Donor's Choose for Educators for 30 student Digital High Precision laptop compound microscopes, a Digital Stereoscope that connects to a desktop computer to project on the classroom screen, as well as a Halogen Stereomicroscope. My project was fully funded and Dignitaries Students used these computers to analyze their phytoplankton samples collected from Oatland Island. Their videos are posted throughout this website.
I have expanded my horizons and became certified as a Special Instruction Educator and have been serving SCCPSS students in this position for 2 years.
ENJOY videos from my science days!! :0)
Oatland_01-22-20_200122191059.mp4My students and I are actively monitoring phytoplankton populations on Richardson Creek at Oatland Island Educational Wildlife Center. I wrote a Donor's Choose grant for 30 student classroom microscopes along with a stereoscope and halogen microscope that can attach to the overhead projector. We evaluate these samples and take data from these samples. We then upload our collected data and post it to the NOAA Phytoplankton Monitoring Scientific database platform for scientists from around the planet to access and share.
Oatland_01-22-20(2)_Nematode.mp4Students made videos and photographs of findings from our samples collected at Oatland Island. Here students are using the Amscope individual laptop microscopes to film their own footage of the local phytoplankton species documented and recorded in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) website database. See more on our Oatland Island/Phytoplankton Monitoring Page.
