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Seeing thro' the eye...


12 January 12 09:18 PM
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 beams of light. William Blake I found the light above after it passed through the multiple lenses of a horseshoe crab that Read More...
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A late December walk


29 December 11 06:51 PM
'Turn away no more; Why wilt thou turn away The starry floor, The watery shore, Is given thee till the break of day.' William Blake Today is the last day of the darkest two weeks of the year, the shadows stretched long on the beach like languid lovers Read More...
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12:30 A.M


21 December 11 07:17 PM
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 the sun. 12:30 A.M. tonight the sun will stand still for an instant, shift its mass * , and head back north. 6 months Read More...
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Teaching photosynthesis


11 December 11 08:23 AM
I work hard to make my classroom "unscientifical." I discovered not so long ago that some students learn just enough scientifical vocabulary to throw me off their scent. We are raising a generation of liturgists. I ask specific questions no one truly Read More...
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Seasonal affective disorder is not


04 December 11 01:24 PM
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 the Earth orbits around the sun, and every year, the shadows lengthen as the days shorten. While this may be news to those Read More...
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How many teachers does it take to screw a lightbulb?


22 October 11 09:09 AM
NJ World Class Standard: 8.2 Technology Education, Engineering, and Design All students will develop an understanding of the nature and impact of technology, engineering, technological design, and the designed world, as they relate to the individual, Read More...
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Weodmonað


01 August 11 09:52 AM
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 short guy with bad teeth, but this was less of an issue before television--the name was dragged over to England by Read More...
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Perennial projects


30 April 11 11:05 AM
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. Call it phenology, call it botany, call it whatever you want, but it's really just observing, and few of us do that Read More...
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On words


19 January 11 07:23 PM
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 stared at for a bit just because, and found a few squiggly things that looked suspiciously like mosquito larvae. I Read More...
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Bell jar


12 January 11 09:59 AM
No, nothing metaphorical. The real thing. I cleared out some space from one of our hallway exhibits to make room for our horseshoe crab art exhibit--a wonderful art teacher is integrating art and science, and the results have been lovely. I took out an Read More...
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