Science teacher

The 2nd repost today, again more for me than anything else. "Through this plan we are setting an ambitious goal: All students should...

The cherry blossom petals are gently falling now, as the faint fragrance and pink light give way to the green leaves. After the burst of sex...

I'm on my second go-round with Twitter 1 . It's a marvelous place to share resources, and an even more marvelous place to waste time...

Vision: A quality science education fosters a population that...applies scientific knowledge and skills to increase economic productivity. ...

Poor little rich kid. Mr. Duncan is going to take a lot of flak for his Katrina komment , joining the Brownie School of Fixing by Diaspora, ...

A few of my goldfish made the annual pilgrimage from my backyard puddles to classroom aquariums. The classrooms were empty as I cajoled bubb...

I grew up in a new suburb carved out of the woods near the Sandy Hook Bay. We spent most of our waking hours outdoors, not necessarily by ch...

Yesterday I left the Bloomfield Public Library as the sun was setting, and ambled across the street to the Bloomfield Green. I sat on a pu...

Yep, a plug. Digging a Hole Both of my kids did the public school thing. Both are loving, decent human beings who get what citizenship is ab...

Bloomfield, New Jersey, sits on the border of Newark, part of the urban fringe. No commercial farms exist here now, and if someone pursued ...

I got to show a few people the Orion Nebula tonight. Our astronomy club at the high school prides itself on urban viewing, and we have adopt...

A local donated a good-sized octagonal tank. If Π is still about 3.14, then the tank is about 90 gallons. I filled it with tap water just ...

A colleague mentioned today how difficult it was to teach Pascal's law in an era when children don't know what a piston is. (Who wor...

I have a clam in room B360. Every now and again it pokes it foot out. If you move the beaker, it pulls it right back in again. The students ...

Pra ying mantis, Visitors of the Prayerful Sort , taken by Scott Robinson (This is a continuation of the Bloomfield menagerie series, descri...

I have been reading an anthology of articles and letters from Nature , a weekly British science journal which started in the Victorian age, ...

This is going to be a bit long, and a bit local. It is for my students and those of us who teach them. It is about technology and memory, ab...

Capturing critters for the classroom is, understandably, frowned upon. I'm more concerned for the critters than the students, not becaus...