Science teacher

This popped up in my Facebook feed today. Sean Nash  says I said it, and I'll take his word on it. I must have liked it then. ...

I live in NJ, and we do not start for another month. For the rest of you, I've been told the season starts sooner. So here's my a...

US Navy judging science fair contestants ( public domain ) If you want a child to learn science (as opposed to engineering or technolog...

 An award--and a few months later, a fatal slip. "At 3:20 PM on Tuesday, May 21, 1946, Louis Slotin's hand slipped-- a small,...

Our stories of matter should matter. Stuff to stuff, spun by our own star, spinning together life from dead breath. We are tied to the...

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...

Now and then it keeps you running It never seems to die The trial's spent with fear Not enough living on the outside Never seem to ge...

All practices of magic or sorcery , by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supe...

Saw a double rainbow just before dusk.... Science did not create Little Boy and Fat Man. Technology did. Little Boy But our knowl...

We're knee-deep in molecular genetics now in AP Biology--and it's not your father's biology anymore, or even your older sister...

Many of my students are unaware they are being watched in class by critters other than teachers. As a child gets up to sharpen her pencil,...

I was forbidden to accept science and still believe in the lyrical poetry, the song that pushes the dance of cosmology or the story of d...

The arts are an important part of a well-rounded education for all students. All of the arts – dance, music, theatre [sic] , and the visu...

The individual concepts of children, and the individual concepts of most persons who live and die in this world, are exceedingly vague, ...

Today is Darwin Day , honoring a complex man with a stunningly simple idea that replaced the need for magical thinking. Folks may hold on ...

fet·ish /ˈfetiSH/ Noun: An inanimate object worshiped for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spi...

Been busier than a bumblebee in May, mostly chasing my own tail, and just about missed September. If anyone checks, though, I got state stan...

If you know a bit About the universe It's because you've taken it in Like that, Looked as hard As you look into yourself, I...

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 ...

5.2.2.A.2 By the end of Grade 2: Identify common objects as solids, liquids, or gases. Throw plasma in there, the most common state of matte...