Science teacher

The Bible of biology "I think the Bible ought to be ceremoniously and reverently burned every Easter, in faith that we need it n...

I suppose it's a bit much to ask students to ponder their closeness to plants in a culture where human tribes can barely recognize ...

Wheat grown on our classroom windowsill. Right now you are making water, the real stuff, not some abstraction, from the oxygen you brea...

Tell me the story of a piece of wood. How did it come to be? How did it get to Home Depot? What was it before that? How did it get...

If you get upset at the idea that birds are truly reptiles, or cringed when Pluto fell off its planetary pedestal, then you practice science...

"No ideas but in things." --William Carlos Williams Stuff comes from stuff. That's a big deal.  Everything you t...

When anyone suggests that we not teach evolution in school, he is suggesting that we not teach biology, and in a broader sense, science. ...

I'm letting go this year. I'm going to trust the collection of young humans sitting in my class, brains honed by countless generatio...

Morning storm clouds. The light bit at edges, accentuating the few colors that poked through the gray dawn gloom. A brisk wind swirled from ...

It's silly season--a pope getting beatified, royalty getting married. We need costumes for these, lots of costumes. And music! And, ...

This one's for me. N o need to read it, nothing to see. Move along, move along.... Everywhere plants Flourish among graves, Sinking the...

Yes, I know, same old same old...I write for Leslie. When I walk, I walk with Leslie. When I eat, I eat with Leslie. When I sleep, I sleep w...

Here's a question I would love to pose to my sophomores: Is the spark of life in humans more valuable than the spark of life in a dande...

I saw Willa Spicer, the Deputy Commissioner of the N. J. Department of Education, at an AP conference Tuesday. She made the opening remarks...

I once knew an educated lady, banded by Phi Beta Kappa, who told me that she had never heard or seen the geese that twice a year proclaim th...

What do you teach a young adolescent? How much of the truth do you dare bare? We are in the midst of the Sixth Great Extinction. Technolog...

What did you imagine lies in wait anyway at the end of a world whose sub-substance is glaim, gleet, birdlime, slime, mucus, muck? from Why r...

My son and I went to Sandy Hook today to scout for our multi-class horseshoe crab trip scheduled later this month. We solved the more pressi...

O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we...

Plants strip electrons from water, and use them to help store energy in organic compounds. The left-overs are oxygen molecules. Any schoolch...