The "Unstoppable" Student Workbook

Peter Suchmann was born in England and came to the US in 1962 with his family. He found his career path in education after many years in the toy industry working part time for the K.B Toy and Hobby Corporation. After graduating from college with an Education Degree, he worked as an Elementary Science Teacher (K-6), followed by a tenure track position as a Middle School Science Teacher. During the early years of his teaching career, he became an educational consultant and co-owner of Magic Moments with Class Inc. - a small business presenting discrepant events, magic and illusion for critical thinking skills, performing arts and EDUCATIONAL FUN in the classroom. He created and marketed simple to learn Magic Kits for teachers because "every teacher needs a bag of tricks"! His other motto was "Before you can teach them, you have to get their attention"! He served on the original Board of the Make - A - Wish Foundation of Long Island, using magic to break the ice with "Wish Kids" and discovering what their individual wishes really were. He soon thereafter became the Middle School Science Department Head, while earning his Administrative Degree from MCLA. He especially enjoyed teaching his beloved Earth Science curriculum and facilitating the Environmental Club in the Middle School. After retiring, he established a 3D printing business on Long Island, consulting with and selling to local schools and libraries. He soon sold that business (machines were way too glitchy in those early years) and found himself pulled back into the classroom, this time as a part time High School Science Research Teacher in Great Neck. There he was presented with an endowed classroom, that he designed as a Makerspace and offered an elective in science research to motivated students who volunteered for his class. In the Makerspace we played with robots, A.I, virtual reality, we built giant ant farms and produced a TV series called SCITECH Long Island with a local Public Access TV studio. Each student was responsible for their own budget to support their research and had to select and participate in at least 5 science competitions during the school year. It was so much fun! One student and I worked for a year on an independent research project during which we developed a children's book (with Augmented Reality videos linked to the content of the story which were inserted into the book by another one of my students) We were able to get that book into Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Working with a local Public Access TV studio, he helped to produce almost 50 TV shows on topics of interest to educators and students. He was the creator of a program called "Show Me the Science" an award-winning broadcast on local cable channels that took First Place in the 2012 Alliance for Community Media - in the NE Regional Video Festival. Over the years he served on the Teachers Advisory Board of the National Environmental Education Foundation, the Long Island Arts Alliance and the Long Island Operation S.P.L.A.S.H. Education Committee. He has authored a family history based upon his parents rescue in 1938 from Nazi Austria and their journey to England on the Kindertransport. He now serves as a Board member of the Kindertransport Association. His most recent "Special Project" is this eBook series and the associated Workbook and the upcoming development of a high school level, global, free, Climate Portal along with Ecoactus whose educational content in their existing college level Climate Boot Camp was developed along with the Climate Reality Project and the Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment. Peter is married to a retired Orchestra Teacher who now performs with 6 local symphonic groups and has two very creative and hardworking sons, one a Filmmaker and the other a Project Manager for a tech company. Along with my daughter-in-law, we all enjoy the love of travel, Escape Rooms, great food and the joy of reading (and lots and lots of great concerts.)