tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post2602021732822525071..comments2024-03-21T05:30:03.220-04:00Comments on Science teacher: Grace and gravitydoylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-61279550018740721982009-03-26T22:18:00.000-04:002009-03-26T22:18:00.000-04:00Dear Barry,Kidding aside, I think that's how my ki...Dear Barry,<BR/><BR/>Kidding aside, I think that's how my kids feel on some days. (I may share this comment with my kids--I think more than a few of them would get it.)<BR/><BR/>One of them figured out (with little guidance) why merely sending up a fleet of spaceships alongside a rogue asteroid might be enough to avert disaster should one be headed our way. Strip the algebra away and the naked view of gravity leaves folks gasping once they wrap their heads around it.<BR/><BR/>I did ask the class where they'd weigh more, here in Bloomfield or on top of Mount Everest. Quite a few of them got it!<BR/><BR/><BR/>Dear Kate,<BR/><BR/>Always good to see your words, no need to apologize--spring has sprung and I am wrestling with my annual should-I-toss-this-life-sucking-machine-out-the-window.<BR/><BR/>I like writing on paper in a journal no one will likely read. I can do that outside when the light is low enough to entice lightning bugs to seek each other out to share some DNA.<BR/><BR/>I've never seen lightning bugs dance inside my home. I've never not been amazed when sitting outside at dusk just watching night settle on me, on us.<BR/><BR/>I never miss much here. I've missed a few sunsets, though.<BR/><BR/>Cheers!doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-56280202138498071602009-03-26T21:39:00.000-04:002009-03-26T21:39:00.000-04:00Michael - Just remember the wonderful construct fr...Michael - <BR/>Just remember the wonderful construct from <I>Haroun and the Sea of Stories</I> by Salman Rushdie - The Process Too Complicated To Explain (or the P2C2E). The P2C2E House and the Eggheads in charge keep all those processes running and manage them.<BR/><BR/>"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."<BR/><BR/>Sorry to be absent so much of the past week. I too am torn - but I am between the gravity of midsemester reports & yearbook proofs and the call of the garden and yard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-84947680739026474742009-03-26T10:00:00.000-04:002009-03-26T10:00:00.000-04:00A great alternate assessment for the proving of gr...A great alternate assessment for the proving of gravity-- ask your student to throw themselves at the group..and miss. If they do miss, they fail the assessment.Barry Bachenheimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145587794589872889noreply@blogger.com