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8/30/2021 0 Comments

In-Person Class Schedule Update

These lessons will be held on Tuesdays Starting at 1pm and lasting till 3pm.Lessons will be $15 per class and location will be in Prunedale at Grace Community Church on Paradise Road.
I will be doing two different age groups, a 5-9 year olds group and a 10 and up group.

The 5-9 year old group will have one meeting per topic and kids will get to learn and play with crafts, stories, and games that help them understand and remember the topics.

The 10 and up group will have one meeting per topic with a little more advanced hands-on projects. Students will have similar craft and games but each topic will have a hands-on project for students to challenge themselves while learning.

Contact me now to save your spot!

Mad Chemistry
Everyone loves a good and messy explosion. In this class students will partake in several chemistry experiments and get their hands dirty while they learn. From elephant toothpaste to volcanic eruptions with class will be a blast!

September 21st, 5-9 year olds will talk about acids and bases and make one big class volcano!
September 28th, The 10 year old and up class will be learning about acids and bases and catalyzes and design their own volcanic explosion!

Frog life cycle
Everyone loves frogs! In the class students will learn all about frogs and their ecosystems. What frogs do in the wild and about their life cycle. October 12th, 5-9 year olds will partake in learning how frogs' strong legs help them jump so far! October 19th, The 10 year old and up class will be making 3D models of a frog's life cycle.

Insect hunt and learn!
Students will learn about the important role insects play in our lives and why we need them around!

October 26th, 5-9 year olds will also get the chance to hunt for insects.
November 2nd, The 10 year old and up class will learn how to preserve and start an insect collection.

Bird Watching!
Students will be learning about our local native birds and maybe even some invasive species. We will learn how to spot them with our eyes and ears. Students will also learn about obstacles birds face every day in today’s world and how they can help the birds!

November 9th, 5-9 year olds will have fun trying to be birds and survive a day in the modern world.
November 16th, The 10 year old and up class will be learning how to use apps while bird watching to add value to citizen science projects around the world by using an internet enabled device right from their own backyards.

Who is in my backyard?
Mammals are all around us in this beautiful area we live in. In this class students will learn about our local mammals and will learn how to find tracks and how to identify tracks when they do come across them.

November 30th, 5-9 year olds will have fun learning about mammals in our area and looking for tracks using a track guide.
December 7th, The 10 year old and up class will be learning about the mammals in our area and how scientists document and take molds of footprints to take home for further study.

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7/29/2021 0 Comments

Big Announcement today!

Biology with Berta will now be doing in-person group lessons!

These lessons will be held on Tuesdays Starting at 1pm and lasting till 3pm.Lessons will be $15 per class and location will be in Prunedale at Grace Community Church on Paradise Road. I will be doing two different age groups, a 5-9 year olds group and a 10 and up group.

The 5-9 year old group will have one meeting per topic and kids will get to learn and play with crafts, stories, and games that help them understand and remember the topics.

The 10 and up group will have two meetings per topic with a little more advanced hands-on projects. Students will have similar craft and games but each topic will have a hands-on project for students to challenge themselves while learning.

Please contact me via email or text to sign up!

August 17th, 5-9 year olds will have fun trying to be birds and survive a day in the modern world.
August 24th and 31st, The 10 year old and up class will be learning how to use apps while bird watching to add value to citizen science projects around the world by using an internet enabled device right from their own backyards.

September 7th, 5-9 year olds will talk about acids and bases and make one big class volcano!
September 14th and 21st, The 10 year old and up class will be learning about acids and bases and catalyzes and design their own volcanic explosion!

Frog life cycle
Everyone loves frogs! In the class students will learn all about frogs and their ecosystems. What frogs do in the wild and about their life cycle. We will end the class with a frog dissection.

September 28th, 5-9 year olds will partake in plastic model dissections.
October 12th and 19th, The 10 year old and up class will be using real specimens for dissections.

Insect hunt and learn!
Students will learn about the important role insects play in our lives and why we need them around!

October 26th, 5-9 year olds will also get the chance to hunt for insects.
November 2nd and 9th, The 10 year old and up class will learn how to preserve and start an insect collection.

November 16th, 5-9 year olds will have fun learning about mammals in our area and looking for tracks using a track guide.
November 30th and December 7th, The 10 year old and up class will be learning about the mammals in our area and how scientists document and take molds of footprints to take home for further study.

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7/28/2021 0 Comments

New Class Ideas, I want to hear from you!

FSo I’ve been thinking about doing group classes for the fall semester! I’d love to get your opinion on your favorite topics.

So far I’ve brainstormed this list, which are your favorites or is their any you’d like me to add?

1. Bird watching and their ecosystems
2. Insects and collection methods (kids create a boxed collection)
3. Frog life cycle ending with a dissection
4. Chemistry explosions!
5. Physics and how things fly
6. Mammals in our area
7. Human body systems ending with a pig dissection
Let me know any and all thoughts!

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6/8/2021 0 Comments

Summer Update!

Dear Parents and Students,

Summer is here! I wanted to give everyone an update on what is going on with Biology With Berta until the fall.

I have already spoken with some of you one-on-one about the upcoming schedule and look forward to working with everyone more as summer and fall come fully around!

I will be working several day camps at Hidden Hills Ranch, which will affect my availability during the summer weeks. (There's still time to sign up for some of those camps if you visit their website now!)

So I have added a new feature to the website at www.biologywithberta.com, that allows you to see my availability and to schedule a class with me. Using the new Calendly feature on my website you will be able to request a time slot that I have open, cancel a meeting, or even ask to schedule a 30 minute call.
This will be a great new tool for both you and I, because you will be able to schedule week by week letting me know how many meetings you would like and what weeks you are unavailable (hopefully because of a fun vacation.)

I also know that some of you will be taking the summer off from lessons and schooling, I mean it is summer right?! This will also be available in the fall and will make it easier to jump right back into tutoring, lessons, or even a hike!

With all this said, my email and phone are always listed if you need to speak with me as well. Shoot me a text! It's honestly the fastest way to hear back from me.
I hope as we all start to get into the warmer months, everyone is taking time to get out in nature even for a few minutes and learn more about the world around us!
Happy Summer All!
--
Berta Chatman
(831) 261-3532
biologywithberta@gmail.com
P.S. Here is a link to the Hidden Hills Summer Camps https://www.hiddenhillsranch.org/camp-information

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10/2/2020 0 Comments

Whats up with this Biology With Berta page anyways?

October 8st, 2020
Okay, So you have seen this page pop up “Biology With Berta,” if you are here during the early stages you probably are from my friends and family list of facebook friends. Which means you already know I am pretty much obsessed with wildlife and nature and telling people about it. So what am I doing with this Facebook page? Good question, I am figuring that out as well. Maybe we can figure it out together as I type this (my first ever blog post!).
Let’s go back to earlier this year before pretty much everyone's life turned inside out. My husband and I had been talking about moving back to the Monterey Bay area. Honestly, we loved living in Chico, Ca but for Matt's work welding in the 100 plus summers heat wasn’t worth it for the pay and physical or mental stress it put on him and us. In addition we just weren’t making any progress on our long term goals where we were. I wasn't working in science or with animals and probably wouldn't ever be if we stayed put.
So we made the needed connections and made the jump! I was going to be an assistant Biologist on a whale watching-research vessel and also start volunteering in the Drifters (jellyfish) Lab at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Matt got a job working for people he respects and where he is doing what he enjoys. Building huge machines by hand and helping feed america. We were both loving our jobs and enjoying being back in an area we grew up in.
Then like the rest of the world, we were hit with a curve ball. COVID-19 shut down both the whale watching-research tours and the aquarium. After one amazing week, I was suddenly left to spend my summer sitting in our new home doing……
Fast forward to now. I’ve had a lot of time to think and come up with ideas and a great family friend who has given me a part time job. I tried refurbishing furniture and selling it, I am pretty proud of the butterfly dresser I redid and sold for a good profit. Although I don't have the patience to do it more than a few minutes at a time. But none of my ideas that I had could I really say I knew I wanted to do it.
So I sat down and with help from Chrissy Wright (look her up, She’s amazing), I started to make a list of things I am good at, qualified in, passionate about, experienced in, and things I enjoy. You know what I saw in each list? Animals, Nature, Science, and talking about it. Well and drinking tea but that's not relevant here.
So that's what I am doing with “Biology With Berta.” I am taking my experience, knowledge, and passion for animals and our planet and I am talking about it! I hope with this new adventure I can teach kids and adults about our world and excite them on protecting it. Whether through my social media post, the tutoring or classes I am running, or even blog post which I guess is a thing now!
Thank you for sticking with me to the end of this brainstorm on what exactly is Biology With Berta. I hope you stick along for more of the ride that I’m sure will be a wild one!

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Berta Chatman is owner of a tutoring and homeschool science resource business Biology With Berta. With her BA in Ecology, Evolution, and Organism Studies and over seven years of education experience her goal is to help parents excite their kids about the sciences, animals and taking care of this planet we have been given.

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