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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: October 2014
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down. Posts Organized by Date. Posts Organized by Topic. Friday, October 31, 2014. How it Must Feel. What do you do? So, what do you do besides trying to be empathetic? And, more so than grading, how can I serve them all? Those are open questions in my mind. Would love if you could chime in to enlighten me in your thoughts about this. Thursday, October 2, 2014. What to Do When You Are Busy. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. How it Must Feel. In case you have ...
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Robotics & Engineering | gealgerobophysiculus
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I enjoy teaching students the engineering process, building, and programming using the LEGO Mindstorms kits. I currently am running an exploratory course for middle school students and have developed the following sequence of challenges for them to follow as they learn basic programming. I have used variations of this sequence to train students (and their coaches) to solve FIRST LEGO League related challenges. The files were written in LEGO Mindstorms Software v2.0. Challenge Set 1: Basic Motor control.
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Abstracting | Shifting Phases
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You are currently browsing the category archive for the ‘Abstracting’ category. What Does Zero Mean? April 5, 2015 in Abstracting. Student thinking about electricity. Here are some conversations that come up every year. Student: “I tried to measure current, but I couldn’t get a reading.”. Me: “So the display was blank? Student: “No, it just didn’t show anything.”. Note: Display showed 0.00). Student: “We can’t solve this problem, because an insulator has no resistance.”. Me: “So it has zero ohms? They mi...
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March | 2012 | Change in Potential
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Thoughts on the teaching and learning of physics. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: March 2012. Relativity on an Escalator. March 15, 2012. This year, I was determined to do it differently. As I thought about alternate approaches I recalled a Dan Meyer posting where he had created a video of himself walking up and down stairs and escalators. Where did he film the video? Was the person in the video a clone/quadruplet? Four videos of Dan are shown simultaneously). On the...
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All talk: 8/26/12 - 9/2/12
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Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Technology for use in Language Classrooms. Thursday, August 30, 2012. I don't mind sharing that I arrived in Canada almost choking on skepticism. High school students learning fluent Spanish by gesturing every single word? They would think it too infantile. Alas, I'm a kinaesthetic sucker. As soon as I started doing the gestures myself and saw how, in contrast to TPRS (which is another method we've adapted. S (of Always Formative)narratives and adapted some of the...
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Let Students Request Feedback or Evaluation? | Shifting Phases
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Let Students Request Feedback or Evaluation? April 24, 2015 in Assessment. Grades are not the point. I’m thinking about how to make assessments even lower stakes. The upside of requiring practise problems. So they won’t have to do any practise. That, of course, sours our classroom culture and makes it harder for them to think well. I’m considering a couple of options. One is, when they write a quiz, to ask them whether they are submitting it to be evaluated or just for feedback. Another option is simply ...
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: February 2014
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down. Posts Organized by Date. Posts Organized by Topic. Thursday, February 27, 2014. Ok, quickie update. If you want more info about anything, you can dig through my current lesson plans here. I am feeling great about all of this. 3 In Precalculus, we have been doing lots of trig and it has been just lovely. And the same horizontal location ("Estimate where on the unit circle there is a horizontal coordinate of -0.4? C) They really explored the idea that the graph changes sh...
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Standards Based Biology: May 2013
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The experiences of implementing Standards Based Grading in an AP Biology classroom. Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Standard Set #2: AP Biology Unit 1. Continuing with my posts of my standards I hope to implement next year in my AP Biology class. This set of standards. Please feel free to use these standards as is, download them and edit them, whatever. Again, the formatting is to make them easy to upload into BlueHarvest. Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Standard Set #1: AP Biology Science Practices. Monday, May 27, 2013.
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: March 2015
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down. Posts Organized by Date. Posts Organized by Topic. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Circumference of the Moon. So, as a follow-up to Erastothenes using geometry to calculate the circumference of the Earth, this week I plan to go over how we can use the ratio to Earth to calculate the circumference of the moon! The lesson idea came from my colleague John. I fleshed it out to scaffold it for my kids. It looks like this. Saturday, March 21, 2015. Geometry to Algebra Transition.
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Signs of Inquiry: August 2011
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Turning deaf minds onto science. August 29, 2011. At the recommendation of Kelly from Physics! I am reading the book "The Homework Myth" by Alfie Kohn. She knew I was debating the idea of homework or no homework and how I had leaned towards the latter. This book has really opened my eyes. For any of you who use SBG, even though I've just started, I do recommend it. So far from the first two chapters, I've gleaned a few important facts. 2) Homework is a continuation of "school" at home. Parents have been ...
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