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June 30, 2021

Death Valley geology hiking/camping trip Dec 2021

Explore Death Valley with a group of hikers interested in examining the geology of the park. The trip is December 28, 2021 through January 1, 2022.

Geology/earthquakes/Science hikes Comments: 20

May 27, 2021

Fuel savings calculator for driving 55 on highways

When my school returned to in-person teaching in May, I started a short daily commute with about 13 miles on a highway with no traffic slow-downs (teaching has its advantages: early start means before most commuters). I started recording the fuel efficiency (miles per gallon) during the highway drive each day. We have a Ford C-max Energi plugin hybrid, which...

Environment Comments: 0

May 13, 2021

Lava Beds & Tule Lake geology hiking/camping trip; July 2021

Lava Beds & Tule Lake: July 11-14 Continuing our July northeast California trips, we will spend four days exploring Lava Beds National Monument, plus the Tule Lake National Monument. Katie and I are leading another hiking/camping trip with our Meetup group. If you would like to attend, space is limited so be sure to RSVP on Meetup here. The trip...

California History/Geology/earthquakes/Science hikes Comments: 0

May 12, 2021

Mt. Lassen and Lava Beds geology hiking/camping trip; July 2021

Three-day geology focused hiking in the Mt. Lassen area in Northern California. Nights spent in a group campsite.

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November 12, 2020

Cardstock paper bridge competition

In my physics classes at Menlo-Atherton High School, we used a homemade bridge breaker to test the strength of student bridges. Students created bridges out of manila folder paper and hot glue. Maximum height are provided, and the distance between the two landing is specified, but in the end the winners are the groups that can create the best load-to-mass...

Physics Comments: 0

September 1, 2020

Videos for buggy lab from home

With COVID-19 requiring many of us to do remote teaching this fall, I wanted to provide videos that students could use at home. I shot these videos with a cell phone gimbal to stabilize the video.

Physics Comments: 3

May 8, 2020

Bicycle touring on the West Coast of USA

The Pacific Coast Bike Route I’m not sure when the first official bike route was created for the Pacific Coast, but it was well known when I first rode it in 1977. Resources Adventure Cycling Association “Pacific Coast” breaks the Vancouver BC to Imperial Beach in San Diego down into five maps. Vicky Spring and Tom Kirkendall co-authored Bicycling the...

Bicycles/Healthy living/Travels Comments: 0

April 15, 2020

Death Valley online tour: COVID-19 social distancing

Using Google Earth as the tour map, and combining my knowledge from the trips I have taken there with my photos and YouTube/Vimeo videos, I organized an online tour for of Death Valley April 15th, 2020. Below are images and videos from that tour (I hope to add a Google Earth link soon).

Geology/earthquakes/Science Education/Science hikes Comments: 0

April 6, 2020

Zoom + Whiteboard = almost in the classroom

As we move forward with online learning due to the COVID-19, I’m offering Zoom-based office hours. There are high-tech ways of sharing screens, etc, but I decided to use a low-tech solution to share drawings with my students.

Computers and the web/Education and schools/Science Education Comments: 0