Science teacher

Sunset on the Delaware Bay The earliest sunset of the year (in these parts anyway) happened a couple of sunsets ago ago. The sun is sett...

My Christmas prayer last year.... Less than a mile away, in the gray shadows of a closed classroom, a pill bug wanders around some com...

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...

Found today at the edge of the ocean. We are mammals, all of us, trapped by words of our creation, most of us. We are human, all of us...

These were last year's resolutions. I liked them so much I'm going with them again. New Year's Day is coming up, and with i...

There's the difference between "information" and "observation." An alert letting you know it's raining out...

While some schools have fancy Madagascar hissing cockroaches, we made do with an American cockroach, the huge one found in norther Jersey. ...

I got to spend a wonderful few days in Tampa at the NASSP Convention schmoozing with principals and other high falutin' admins, a rare...

There's seems to be some confusion about my role. I am, of course, an agent of the government, of the public, of my town. I am a scien...

Do not ever follow any advice I give for eating anything. If something has an acetyl group in it, I'll try it.  Some folks' skin ...

OK, I'm not sure I'm allowed to do this (but it's usually easier to be forgiven than get permission--my Mommy taught me that)--h...

An Cailleach Bhearra wandered around back in the 10th century in western Ireland, eating "seaweed, salmon, and wild garlic" (my ...

  "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." Thoughts on Rachel's Challenge . Atoms, as most adults know them, ...

19th century version: Yesterday I headed for one of my favorite places with one of my favorite people to do one of my favorite things--cla...

Say a prayer every morning honoring a mystery. A prayer for light, for life, for gravity, for cosmic rays, for the source of water. I preten...

I love the Christmas Story, the lights, the glitter, the love. I love that the day coincides with the first glimmer of the rising sun. I lo...

As various factions wrestle with various standards for various (and occasionally dubious) reasons, I find myself in a classroom with a coupl...

"When using and choosing technology for children teachers should let children pretend with the types of gadgets they see their parents ...

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

Raked some leaves, then some clams, then some charcoals to cook the clams. New moon tide in late November on a spectacular day makes for go...