Between third and fourth terms, Walden School holds a two-week Intersession that includes high interest classes (such as the CSI class I reported on last post) and often also includes a field trip. This year we traveled to Moab, Utah which is the gateway for some of the most incredible scenery, geology, and adventure activities [...]
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A Trip to Moab
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged arches national park, charles steen, charlie steen, delicate arch, double arches, geology of arches national park, landscape arch, mi vida mine, moab utah, paradox basin, pitchblende, salt dome, uncompaghre uplift, uranium, uranium processing, vanadium, windows section on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged chain of custody, chain of evidence, crime scene investigation, criminology, csi, forensic science, forensics in education, group communication, hands-on activities on May 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My trip to the NSTA conference in San Francisco came right in the middle of our Intersession period at Walden School of Liberal Arts. The most difficult time of the school year is the stretch from Presidents’ Day through Spring Break. The weather is still too nasty in Utah to do very much outside, and [...]
NSTA Conference Day 5
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged authentic science education, chemical education digital library, flight simulator, ipad, moscone center, nsta, nsta conference, san francisco, sr-71, student created videos, web 2.0, x-plane on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On the final day of the NSTA conference in San Francisco, I woke early and packed up, then went to find breakfast. I ran into Julie and Gary Taylor at the Hilton and we ate together at Mel’s Diner. Nancy Takashima (also of SSEP) joined us later. I then went to the last two sessions. [...]
NSTA Conference Day 4
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged angry red planet, arthur c clarke, bat rat spider crab, crism, fishermans wharf, mars 2001 odyssey, mars 3d terrain, Mars exploration, mars global surveyor, mars model, mars reconnaissance orbiter, mesdt, mro, nsta, pier 39 on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday, March 12, I attended a presentation by Howard Lineberger on the Mars Exploration Student Data team program his students have participated in. It was at the Hilton Hotel, so I hopped the conference shuttle bus over. My students at Mountainland Applied Technology College had participated in this program during its first year in [...]
NSTA Conference 2011: Day Three
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged apple inc, chinatown, explore mars, ipad, mars education challenge, moscone center, nsta conference, san francisco, science education, science teachers on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My last post had me still in San Francisco at the NSTA national conference. That was March. Now it’s May, and I don’t quite know what happened to April. Let me try to catch up on myself and this project. Back in San Francisco, I had just been awarded 3rd Place in the Mars Education [...]
NSTA Conference San Francisco: Day 2
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged bill nye, cripple creek, exploremars, gavrt, google earth, national science teachers association, nsta, periodic table, periodicity, san francisco, science and technology, science night, science teacher conference, solar system educators program, web 2.0 on March 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Thursday, March 10, I experienced my first full day of the NSTA Annual Conference in San Francisco. It was a remarkable day for me, for several reasons. I attended some excellent sessions with ideas on how to improve my teaching of chemistry and integrate technology into my classroom, I presented a session on this [...]
In San Francisco: Day One
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged csi, forensic science, moscone center, mosser hotel, national science teachers association, nsta conference, san francisco, science education, science teachers conference on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The last two weeks have been crazy busy as our third term has ended, our Intersession classes have begun, and I’ve prepared to travel to San Francisco for the National Science Teachers Association Conference. During Intersession our history teacher at Walden School (Eric) and I have put together a CSI class, coming up with a [...]
Second Round of Chemistry Demonstrations
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged chemicals, chemistry, chemistry demonstrations, mad science night, peer evaluation, science night, student presentations, student-centered learning, students as teachers on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last December right before winter break, my chemistry students prepared demonstrations to present to each other and to the elementary classes here at Walden School. This was their first attempt at it, and they received evaluations from me and from their peers with suggestions on how to improve. Now we have just finished the second [...]
Two Contests and a Grant
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged air force association, alluvial fan, apple distinguished educator, curiosity, explore mars, holden crater, mars analogs, Mars exploration, mars geography, mars geology, mars science lab, NASA Explorer Schools, notch peak on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t posted anything in several weeks because I’ve been very busy preparing entries for two major teacher contests, neither of which are related specifically to this blog. The first contest is for Curriculum Support Materials for the Explore Mars program, with teachers creating lessons and other materials about Mars exploration that can be incorporated [...]
The Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged hyman rickover, idaho national laboratory, linus pauling, liquid sodium reactor, nikola tesla, nuclear aircraft carrier, nuclear engineering, nuclear navy, nuclear power, nuclear reactor, nuclear submarine, telluride colorado, u-235, uranium, uss nautilus, uss seawolf on December 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On Nov. 30, I had the privilege of interviewing S. Reed Nixon, who lives not far from where I do in Orem, Utah. I met him through my wife, who has known the Nixons for several years. Over the summer, we went to visit them and Reed told me of some of his experiences as [...]
