Science teacher

The air warmed up, the beach did not--ice and snow lay just beneath the sand. I went barefoot anyway. Not much to say, except to say w...

A cautionary tale for me.... We're about a day away from the end of the darkest three weeks of the year. The light has been surrea...

Thoughts while waiting for the light to return..... While science rests on models, abstract shadows of patterns drawn out of noise, ...

From years past. the real Christmas miracle.... "Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the  air-woven children of light." Jacob Mol...

Less than a mile away, in the gray shadows of a closed classroom, a pill bug wanders around some compost, feeling relief as it moistens it g...

This one's from two Augusts ago. A The days fade quickly now--in three weeks we'll have an hour less sunlight gracing us than...

Wheat from our winter classroom windowsill. Some abstract intangibles: Light   Electrons Inertia If you think you know light, ...

We are led to believe a lie When we see not thro' the eye, Which was born in a night to perish in a night, When the soul slept in be...

'Turn away no more; Why wilt thou turn away The starry floor, The watery shore, Is given thee till the break of day.' Wil...

Yep, the annual winter solstice news--the tinge of sadness I felt late June now reflects back as a tige of joy. The sun is dead. Long live ...

I work hard to make my classroom "unscientifical." I discovered not so long ago that some students learn just enough scientifical ...

Yep, this one again--I trot it out pretty much every year now for those who wonder why I'm such a crab in the winter.... Every year t...

It's dark again, a reminder of what we mostly ignore. Life depends on light, depends on combining simpler particles into larger, less ...

NJ World Class Standard: 8.2 Technology Education, Engineering, and Design All students will develop an understanding of the nature and i...

Yep, mostly the same post third time around--I like the rhythm of the year. We call it August now, for Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus , a sh...

At the start of the school year, back when the sunlight was fading and squirrels were fattening up, each student picked a tree to watch. Cal...

I mucked around my classroom long after my lambs had left. One tank needed cleaning, another could use a few beakers of water. A third I sta...

No, nothing metaphorical. The real thing. I cleared out some space from one of our hallway exhibits to make room for our horseshoe crab ...