Science teacher

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

This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days an...

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 got beans growing in our classroom. Three gorgeous rattlesnake pods hanging from a vine, the soft purple puff of a flower between the sec...

I have a lovely cross-section of an ash tree in class, about an inch thick and almost two feet wide. It makes a great  sound when I rap it w...

Last week of the sinking sun. The Earth hurtles closer to the sun, but my little piece of paradise edges more and more oblique to the...

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

The deeper I dig into how much a child understands a particular idea, the more I  realize persistent misconceptions can be. We have plenty...

As I was poking around the classroom garden yesterday, getting the plants ready for the weekend, I found a pea pod dangling from a tiny pea ...

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

The last time these parts saw 9 1/2 hours of sunlight was the last day in November. The darkest 6 weeks of the year are over. Amen. Pho...

For I took an Earthen vessel, in which I put 200 pounds of Earth that had been dried in a Furnace, which I moystened with Rainwater, and I ...

Theology alert--f eel free to jump in.... This was inspired by Father Sean and Brother John and Reverend Scott . Balance. We need balance ...

"The higher quality data available since 1950 has allowed the team to calculate that since that time, the world has seen a phytoplankt...

I advise the Bloomfield High School Astronomy Club--we are sidewalk warriors, fighting the glare of streetlights, security beacons, and gaud...

I am going away for a couple of weeks, to wander around the west coast of Ireland. Perhaps the journey will cure my delusions that my rants...

“The best thing we can do is educate our way to a bett er economy." Arne I try to keep catechism out of my classroom, and not just the ...

Our neighbor's father died last night after a brief but ravaging illness. The usual laughter rising over the fence has been missing the ...