Shane Wood Shane.Wood@moundsviewschools.org |
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My name is Shane Wood, and I teach Physics and Earth Science at Irondale High School in New Brighton, Minnesota (USA)—a suburb of Minneapolis. I have just completed my fifth year of teaching. In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I co-advise Irondale’s Student Council along with one of our social studies teachers. My undergraduate degree is in atmospheric science from the University of North Dakota. I did graduate work on the same topic at the University of Washington, then science education (Earth and Physics) at the University of Minnesota. I have been involved with the Quarknet program through the University of Minnesota since 2002.
One theme I emphasize during the school year with my students is how collectively physicists study phenomena that stretch over unimaginably wide extremes of spatial scale—from the largest galaxies to the smallest elementary particles. I look forward to these few weeks at CERN to learn more about the particles and interactions at the small end of this scale, and how to better incorporate these associated topics into my curriculum.
When not teaching, correcting, or setting up labs, I enjoy traveling, reading, listening to and/or playing music (I play trombone and a little piano), watching movies, trying new restaurants, spending time with my friends and family, and watching summer thunderstorms roll in.