tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post361045566888768623..comments2024-03-21T05:30:03.220-04:00Comments on Science teacher: On stories of the universedoylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-33752723819653709042013-01-17T11:31:21.866-05:002013-01-17T11:31:21.866-05:00Maybe the fish liked being alone in the pond, havi...Maybe the fish liked being alone in the pond, having it all to him/herself. Maybe that's why it kept evading capture. There's an exception to every rule, after all, isn't there? Sometimes the <i>world</i> can be too big, forget about the universe.Leenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-22443789980105234002013-01-17T06:27:31.123-05:002013-01-17T06:27:31.123-05:00I wanted to reply to your other post, about people...I wanted to reply to your other post, about people who deny the evidence of their own experience, but these really go together, don't they? If you only experience what's in your little pond, you never get challenged. And if you experience something that you did not expect, it's easier to deny it.<br />I watched kids determined to prove that putting more pennies into a film canister make it displace more water (because the amount of water displaced depends on the weight of the object...). I watched them for 30 minutes, until they had to accept the inevitable. But the other kids who watched them STILL didn't believe it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-1962008621025099872013-01-17T06:03:33.629-05:002013-01-17T06:03:33.629-05:00Dear Kate,
Not sure why the fish mattered as much...Dear Kate,<br /><br />Not sure why the fish mattered as much as it did, but it did.<br /><br />Not sure the story has a whole lot to do with teaching science, but I think it has a lot to do with how science alters what we know.<br /><br />But that's not why I posted it.<br /><br /><br /><br />doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-61484664709726124552013-01-16T23:40:50.324-05:002013-01-16T23:40:50.324-05:00This both breaks my heart and makes me smile. What...This both breaks my heart and makes me smile. What is real? How alone am I in my own pond?<br /><br />I guess this means I really have to look at the other fish, doesn't it?<br />Katehttp://tabor330.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com