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Science Teacher's 2012 Toy Recommendations


09 December 12 10:25 AM
Here's a short list: Jacob's ladder prism Newton's cradle hand-cranked generator stethoscope a fossilized anything a karimba a jar of slugs a bag of marbles and a magnifying glass. Pushing science on on our lambs under the threat of "you will be unemployed Read More...
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What do you care to know about the world?


26 July 12 10:13 AM
Teaching matters. We owe it to our children to get it right. What do you care to know about the world? There's a place for what used to be called boredom, for empty spaces to slide into your mind. It's not particularly unpleasant, but it lacks the dopamine Read More...
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June, again


01 June 12 05:45 AM
June again--I liked this one in 2010, and I still like it. I want to crawl face down in the fields and graze on the wild strawberries, my clothes stained pink, even for seven years if I must, if they exist. I want to lie out on my back under the thousand Read More...
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A story about basil


21 May 12 07:06 PM
And she forgot the stars, the moon and sun, And she forgot the blue above the trees, And she forgot the dells where waters run, And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze; She had no knowledge when the day was done, And the new morn she saw not: but in peace Read More...
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What we risk losing


20 May 12 09:21 AM
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best Read More...
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Why kids love science anyway...


01 April 12 08:29 PM
As much faith as I have in natural laws, I have much less faith in my ability to lasso them as needed in a classroom. I've had some spectacularly loud, messy failures. Kids like this. As much as the Arne's and the Eli's and the Bill's want to control Read More...
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The Art and Science of Science and Art


11 March 12 02:25 PM
Chris is the guy on the left.... I've had an interesting past few days in Tampa the past few days, celebrating the work of our principal Chris Jennings and our school at the NASSP Convention. We're a MetLife Foundation Breakthrough School this year and Read More...
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Transformations


28 February 12 08:47 PM
Yesterday we fooled a few bacteria into taking in some jellyfish DNA, and now they fluoresce green. Tomorrow I will take a few colonies of these and give them what we all need--food, shelter, and a little security, and I'll get a few million more by Thursday. Read More...
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Et tu, Zappa?


21 February 12 08:55 PM
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 science teacher, which should mean I teach science. Arne says it means I am the linchpin of our economy. Einstein said I have Read More...
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Gingko blues


15 February 12 06:37 PM
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 reacts to the pulp, too. This is the Science Teacher blog, not Fine Foods . My favorite tree on the Bloomfield Green was cut Read More...
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Quahogs, Darwin, and grace


12 February 12 09:26 AM
Today is Darwin Day , honoring a complex man with a stunningly simpleidea that replaced the need for magical thinking. Folks may hold on to their magic, I know I do, but they can no longer use rational thinking to hold on to the idea that the Hand of Read More...
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Siemen's STEM Institute: A Luddite Wants In


06 February 12 07:36 PM
I would like very much to go to the Siemen's STEM Institute this summer, though after today, I'm not sure they'd welcome me in their midst. I've spent hours wrestling with a Flip camera , MS Movie Maker, and and apparent conflict between the chip set Read More...
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Imbolc


01 February 12 08:33 PM
An Cailleach Bhearra wandered around back in the 10th century in western Ireland, eating "seaweed, salmon, and wild garlic" (my kind of woman), looking for firewood. If the day was bright and sunny, beware--she had gathered plenty of wood and was set Read More...
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Breathing biology


23 January 12 07:36 PM
We got beans growing in our classroom. Three gorgeous rattlesnake pods hanging from a vine, the soft purple puff of a flower between the second and third bean. Most of the stuff that makes up these beans is carbon dioxide, much of it from the breath of Read More...
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National Canine Latin Barking assessments


11 January 12 09:00 PM
While immersed in the Krebs cycle in mid-January, pushing biochemical pathways on sophomores who have yet to learn chemistry, I marvel at their persistence, trying to grasp what I know they cannot, but I ask them to do it anyway. (There is something unethical Read More...
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