Category: Science Education

June 4, 2019

Newton’s Three Laws

A humorous take on Newton’s Three Laws.

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May 20, 2019

Penny Diffusion Lab

Using penny mint marks to model gas diffusion.

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February 15, 2019

Testing the Constant Velocity Model in high school physics: The “Buggy Lab”

Using buggy collisions for summative assessment for constant velocity.

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April 16, 2018

Solving ‘roller coaster’ energy problems

Tutorial walking students through solving energy problems involving roller coasters.

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August 31, 2017

Back to School Night – Menlo-Atherton HS, 2017

OK, maybe I’m in the minority, but I really like Back to School Nights.

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March 17, 2017

How I generate science tutorial videos

A tutorial on creating videos for science education (or any other instructional theme).

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February 26, 2017

Videos of building molecules, and showing chemical reactions, with candy and toothpicks

This post includes a couple of videos to provide students with examples of how to solve a couple of tasks in chemistry. One is “building chloromethane” and the other is “Ester synthesis from acetic acid and ethanol.”

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January 26, 2017

Modeling Instruction and NGSS: Energy as a Crosscutting Concept

Notes from a talk on Modeling Instruction and energy as a Crosscutting Concept.

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January 19, 2017

Extra time on quizzes: Why you need individual work

Today was a great day. My students had a short quiz, and I wanted to make sure they all had plenty of time to complete it. I thought it would take them about 20 minutes to finish it (most finished in 15-20 minutes), but wanted to allow plenty of time for students who require ‘extra time’ (whether LD diagnosed and...

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December 2, 2016

The periodic spiral of the elements

Video of a periodic table rotating to show that the periodic table is not flat; that the Alkali metals are next to the Noble gasses.

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