Thu, Dec 19, 2013 9:48 PM in Physics Motion Labs
Another resource to consider is NASA Explorer Schools. It is free to join/apply. They offer fantastic resources. Tonight, I attended a web seminar on Lunar Nautics and Newton's Laws of Motion. It uses the laws of motion to explain the landing of Mars rovers. Also, it has an activity on creating your own balloon rocket with "staging," a centripetal force lab, and a lunar landing egg drop.
If yo...
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Wed, Dec 18, 2013 7:25 PM in Any advice on projecting authority?
I have a great relationship with most of my students. I've been asked by some colleagues how I handle the boundaries between friend and teacher. One thing I tell my students is that while they are in our school, they are like my kids. They are my babies. I'm Mama Bear at school. I'm only about 10 years older than my middle schoolers, and they do call me Mama. We laugh about the fact that I'm not r...
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Mon, Nov 25, 2013 5:22 PM in Math in the middle school science classroom
I teach 7th grade physical science and we use math a lot! We have graphed ramp height vs. distance traveled for a golf ball rolling down hill and found the relationship. Students know how to draw lines of best fit, and extrapolate. We found final temperatures when mixing two different temperatures of water, and just finished calculating heat transfers. We also will use math for density, solving sp...
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