A Teacher’s Thoughts

How do you know when science has happened?  Ask Doyle. “A child muttered in class this week that she keeps knowing less than she thought she knew. Success.” The dismantling, disintegrating, demolishing, disassembling, trashing, throwing away, rooting out of misconceptions is hard work for teachers and students. Seeing things that did not exist moments before [...]

There is a particular unit of study I have taught for the past seven or so years in my middle school science classes.  The science content is in the area of climate study.  In particular my class is trying to understand how the Sun-Earth system work together to cause variability in our Climate.  Ultimately this [...]

Online science fairs have been popping up frequently lately. And for good reason. Students have an opportunity to see a variety of projects grow and develop, and potentially an opportunity to collaborate on similar projects. Last year our local chamber of commerce started a science fair for grades 7-12. The turnout was good with a [...]

Here is my attempt to map out the connections between the New Hampshire Frameworks for Science Literacy and our current science fair and science fair wiki areas we can look for evidence of student learning. The scientific method appears not so clean. Related Posts: The MWV Science Fair Online Reflection on Students’ First Wiki Experience

Today was the final challenge in our Remotely Operated Vehicle Challenge. After about a week of planning and practice the groups from our two classes had their final challenge; navigate to a given location, put a cap on a jar. The simplified assignment from my previous post is: Working with another 8th grade science class [...]