Apryl Nicolle 🌿
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Apryl Nicolle 🌿
@aprylnicolle.dftba.social
Science Educator/Communicator
she/her • Momma Bear 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈• DFTBA!
Enthusiastic about decolonizing science, centering Indigenous Ways of Knowing in env ed and lowering barriers for diverse learners.

📍WA State
*views expressed my own
#SciComm #EduSky #SciEd
Taught a bunch of kindergartners how to identify which species of salmon they are raising. They nailed it! This is one of my favorite in-school activities.
December 11, 2024 at 9:26 PM
I think it started here:
December 10, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Aww, we have cousin cats!
Is she lynx point?
December 7, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Am I doing this right!? 😂😂
December 7, 2024 at 5:50 AM
23andMe tells me I have ~2% Neanderthal dna.
(It even lists the variants and likely traits associated with them)
December 6, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Despite all my rage I’m still just a..
November 27, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Teehee. Mushroom bums.
November 24, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Held a community forest event today and the theme was Super Plants. These kids brought a bark boat into the lab, loaded with various treasures they’d found. So clever! Bark Boats will be a recurring strategy from now on! Exploration smorgasbord
#SciComm #Env-Ed #CommunityScience #OutdoorEducation
November 24, 2024 at 4:24 AM
Hey mushroom people..
What on earth is this?!?
Found in SW Washington today, on wet maple leaf litter. 🧪🍄🍄‍🟫
#mycology #mushroom #mushroomid
November 22, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Look at these cool bros!
November 22, 2024 at 3:37 AM
So damn fancy. Just look at that hat! I wish I had a hat that fancy. I saw a merganser today too.. but my pic is way less awesome! lol
November 21, 2024 at 11:38 PM
I’m looking for a good way to explain Dissolved Oxygen and the unit of ppm to 2nd graders. Anyone have a favorite? A good visual?
#SciComm #Env-Ed #SciSky #ChemSky #EduSky #ChemEd #scienceteachers #iteachchem 🧪⚗️🐟
November 20, 2024 at 3:45 PM
This was incredible! If you have a chance to see it, I highly recommend you do. It should be required course material for Wa State History. (Also, I’m now a Ramona Bennett fan girl)
#wagrowingtogether2024 #fishwar #billyfrankjr
November 18, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Lichens, Lungworts, Liverworts and Moss 💚
Any nerds wanna help w/ID?
#environmentaleducators
#wagrowingtogether2024
#campcispus #e3washington
November 18, 2024 at 6:20 AM
Just wrapped up at E3’s Environmental Ed Conference. What a weekend! Here’s a shot of Burley Mountain this morning, nestled in fog. More rad pics to come once I get back home #wagrowingtogether2024 #campcispus #E3Washington
November 18, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Kylo has no concept of personal space. #SkyCats?
November 15, 2024 at 3:59 AM
Wait. Is my cat having an affair?
November 14, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Check out this interesting branch that looks like a duck!
November 13, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Peekaboo!
Look at this little guy, showing off under our microscope.
November 13, 2024 at 4:21 AM
November 13, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Your chickens are beautiful!
This is Henrietta.. she followed my kids home from the bus stop one day. Now we have 13 😳❤️ #chickenmath
November 12, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Me and my chicken, Betty Boop. #chickentender
November 11, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Those are the best cat names ever! Hands down!
Here is is Trillium Troutbucket. He’s a menace.
November 11, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Just a slug, munchin a chestnut.
November 11, 2024 at 7:17 PM
November 11, 2024 at 6:00 AM