I teach 5th and 6th grade STEM in the lovely Pacific Northwest in a small, rural town called Chimacum. My goal is to help students discover that all learning is life-long and that 21st century tools can be used for work as well as fun.
Oct 04
So this is what can happen to an iPad. The backs are very slippery. I hadn’t planned to do it but it seems that purchasing some kind of silicone or rubber backing for the iPads would be a good investment. It just slipped from the student’s hand and just happened to land on the corner …
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Oct 04
My 8th graders found that BP could have used hay to clean up much of the oil spill without putting any dispersants or dispersed oil in the water. We saw the following YouTube video: Here is our class’ response video where we tested their idea for ourselves:
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Oct 01
When you bring out math manipulatives you let the kids play with them a bit so that later they can focus on the work of learning with the tool. That was my intent with our new iPads and netbooks. I have lots of ideas I want my students to try out but first I thought …
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Sep 11
What a great first week of school! I am lucky enough to get to work with three classes of 6th grade Science and two classes of 8th grade Science. Thanks to Mr. Rice’s Play with a Purpose blog we did a fun activity on the first day of school with oobleck. I had to take …
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Sep 06
Can you believe that school has started! Today is our first day back to school and I’m very excited for this brand new school year. I have the great pleasure of getting to work with every 6th grader as they enter middle school for the first time. I’m also very fortunate to get to work …
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Aug 23
This is another cross post I wrote for IEAR. I was reading a post from Adventures in Teaching and Learning by Mr. Keenan, Why the iPad IS for Content Creation in Education {iPads in Education, Mobile Learning, 21st Century Learning} and I splurged and bought one of the featured apps in that article, Office2 HD. …
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Aug 22
[Note: I don’t use the consequences or document listed in this post anymore. I am striving to make learning for my students about information and NOT about rewards and punishments. A difficult endeavor worth doing!] I’ve been getting quite a few pointers from the Smart Classroom Management blog. If you don’t subscribe to it, do …
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2016, 2017, 2019, 2022,
2023, 2024, and 2025!
I presented at WSTA 2015!
