Jackie Grundberg
About Jackie
Jackie Grundberg priority is to supplement her own elementary-age children’s science curriculum and work with teachers who expressed their struggles with teaching science helped to inspire her drive to create Backpack Sciences.
Jackie holds a Montessori Lower and Upper Montessori AMS credential with 11 years of Montessori classroom experience. She earned her Bachelor’s in Environmental Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Masters of Ed in Instructional Technology. Her teaching credentials from Washington and Maryland are at the secondary biology and middle level. Since 2018, she has worked with CGMS as an Instructional Guide, Field Consultant, and Practicum Advisor. Prior to her teaching career, she worked as a wildlife biologist in Colorado, New York, Cameroon, and Kenya.
Jackie is the creator of Backpack Sciences©, a monthly Montessori science curriculum membership to help elementary educators implement ready-to-go, hands-on, inquiry-based science lessons. Backpack Sciences© combines her experience as a wildlife biologist and 23 years in an educational environment as a Montessori classroom teacher and teacher educator all in one place.
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