Cells: Reimagining Life Science with Middle School Science Teacher Carli Rivers

What does it look like when biology leaps off the page and into the MakerSpace? Join 7/8 Grade Science teacher Carli Rivers as she discusses one of Harley’s Middle School projects: building 10-foot-tall oversized plant and animal cells. Instead of just labeling a diagram, Carli’s students took to the MakerSpace to engineer life-sized models. Working in pairs to tackle specific parts of a cell, students had to collaborate, problem-solve, and build. In this video, Carli shares: Why the process of building is as vital as the biological facts themselves. How the MakerSpace became an extension of the science lab. The impact of scale: Why exploring a 10-foot cell creates a memory that lasts longer than a textbook chapter.

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Cells: Reimagining Life Science with Middle School Science Teacher Carli Rivers is an episode from Joy In Learning, The Harley School's Podcast.

This episode is 22:10 long.

This episode was published on Mar 3, 2026.

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