MMSA Title: STEM Education Specialist
Hometown: Binghamton, New York
Education: M.Sc, Science Teaching – License K-9 National Louis University, Evanston, IL
B.Sc, Marine Biology StonyBrook at Southampton (formerly Long Island University, Southampton College).
What is your STEM passion area:3-Dimensional science learning because it puts science content and science literacy into context
What did you do before you worked at MMSA: He spent the past seven years as a faculty member in the Biology Department at Wright State University in Ohio, where he taught science education to pre-service teachers and marine biology to both undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to his teaching, he led professional development initiatives focused on scientific practices for local schools. Previously, he taught middle school biology for eight years, where he helped introduce and implement the IQWST curriculum. Before transitioning into science education, he spent over a decade as a Senior Research Scientist at the Sea Turtle and Fisheries Ecology Research Lab at Texas A&M University at Galveston. There, he conducted research on endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico and taught vertebrate zoology.
What do you like to do in your free time: In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children on, in, or near the water.
Pronouns: he, him, his
Phone: (207) 626-3230 x31
Email: all emails are first initial last name at mmsa.org
Projects:
Teach ME Outside
PeBLES2
PLAY
Papers and Presentations
- Bowers, J., Kenyon, L.O., Kenyon, F.L, Boyd, B., Farrell, A., Boone, W., & Juhas, B. (August, 2019). Improving Teacher Pedagogical Design Capacity and Student Competency with Argumentation Through A Lesson Study Based Professional Development. An interactive poster presentation at European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Bologna, Italy.
- Fleming, M. Kenyon, L. Kenyon, L., (December, 2016). Using Democratic Science to Engage Families in Scientific Explanation. A Hands-On Workshop Paper Presented at NARST-Sponsored Session, Columbus, OH.
- Fleming, M., Kenyon, L. Kenyon, L., & Upayhyay, B (April, 2016). Family Science Night: Experiencing Democratic Science Education in a Middle School. A paper presented at the Annual International Conference of National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Baltimore, MD.
- Fleming, M., Kenyon, L., Taskin, N.R., & Kenyon, F.L. (April, 2015). Engaging middle school students in meaningful practices through community engagement. A paper presented at the Annual International Conference of National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Chicago, IL.
- Kenyon, L., Fleming, M., Kenyon, F.L., & Barker, A. (March, 2015). NGSS: The enterprise going where no model has gone before! A paper presented at NSTA Conference Chicago, IL.
- Fleming, M., Kenyon, L., Kenyon, F.L., & Barker, A. (March, 2015). Interactive science notebooks as integrative assessment tools. A paper presented at NSTA Conference Chicago, IL.
- Kenyon, L. (October, 2016) Lessen the impacts of sharks on humans or humans on sharks? Dayton Regional Stem School, FIRST LEGO League.
- Kenyon, L. & Kenyon, F.L. (August, 2015). Effective Instruction in Learning in Biological Sciences, WSU Biological Sciences Seminar.
- Kenyon, L. (June, 2012). Curriculum Adoption with Emphasis on NGSS and Practices. Tipp City School Board.
Publications
- Truong. Kimmy, Kenyon. L. (2017). The Effects of Nitrogen and Potassium on the Growth of Brassica rapa. The Journal of Excellence in Integrated Writing Courses. Wright State University.
- Fleming, M.A., Kenyon, L.O., Kenyon, L., & Upadhyay, B. (2015). Democratic science: Engaging middle school students in meaningful practices through community engagement. Education in a Democracy: A Journal of the NNER, 7, 37-63.
- Ferguson, Sarah, Kenyon, L. (2015). Effects of Caffeine and Vitamin E on Wisconsin Fast Plant. The Journal of Excellence in Integrated Writing Courses. Wright State University.
- Dailey W., Landry, A.M., Jr., Kenyon, F.L., II (2008). Book. The Louisiana Recreational Tarpon Fishery. In Jerald S. Ault (Ed.), Biology and Management of the World Tarpon and Bonefish Fisheries (pp. 57-68). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
- Landry, A.M., Jr., F.L. Kenyon, II, D.T. Costa, and M.S. Coyne (2005). Population Characteristics of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles in Nearshore Waters of the Upper Texas and Louisiana Coasts. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(4): 801-807.
