Just because I teach students in a classroom in metro Atlanta doesn’t mean I can’t also provide a service to students worldwide. The following comment warmed my heart when it showed up on CEA Physics, the classroom blog I run: I have no idea who you are, but i am in eighth grade in Texas [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Thanks to a new book on the project, I’ve been reminded of the 1000 journals project. The idea is simple: an artist going by the moniker “Someguy” sent one thousand blank journal books into the world. They would travel from place to place, from person to person, collecting stories. It’s being called a collaborative art [...]
My physics students learned about buoyancy last week with a boat-building experiment. On day 1, we designed and built boats out of clay. I gave the kids no information about buoyancy other than to say we would be studying it in this chapter. They were told to build a boat that could hold as much [...]
Susan Dunn’s book, Design Technology: Children’s Engineering, provides me with great ideas for bringing engineering design into the classroom. The book appears to be out of print, but I had no problem finding a used copy on Amazon’s marketplace. Last spring, I built cam operated toys because of the book. We investigated how cams operate [...]
I’ve long been a fan of the Kevin Mitnick story. His hacking, capture by the FBI, and subsequent legal drama all make for a complex story. This week, I had the opportunity to present the story to one of my classes. I think the lesson went really well. A little background on how Kevin Mitnick [...]
I showed the movie Gattaca today at school as a vehicle for a day of ethics conversations. The film was released in 1997 and tells the story of a man who masquerades as genetically modified in a society where it’s the only way to the best jobs — including that of navigating a space mission [...]
