January 2010 - Posts
I'm setting up the equipment and materials today for a CBL/graphingcalculator/data probe (actually, motion detector) lab. It's a good lab, one that I've done before; the students collect the data on the velocity of a falling coffee filter, and compare
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I'm can't say that I'm surprised by this. Young children who are smacked by their parents grow up to be happier and more successful than those who have never been hit, research claims. It found that children who are smacked before the age of six perform
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I had been preparing to teach Physics for months; we had just started a new semester, and had been in professional development activities for 2 days. The students were due to arrive in just 15 hours. Surprise, surprise, surprise, as Gomer Pyle would say.
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I found an interesting article about change - not specifically an education article, but involving general management issues. Kaikaku is the type of change we often see today in education - a large, sweeping, holistic change. It's designed to clear out
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How come the long two-week vacation always ends the same way? No time to get everything done (especially grading). Where did that time go?
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