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Nov 19

Students Requesting Photos of Earth From the ISS!

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Science
November 19, 2023

Screenshot of an EarthKAM test page to show students how to make their pages.

The Sally Ride EarthKAM website is a great website with amazing activities incorporating space science and the International Space Station (ISS)! Sally Ride was the first American woman in space and she has left a fabulous legacy with this NASA EarthKAM project. EarthKAM, which stands for Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students, allows students …

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Jun 07

Putting Images on Blog Posts

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Tech Integration
June 7, 2017

Images make blog posts look better and help the reader make sense and visualize what he or she is reading. I teach my students about checking images to make sure they are not copyright so they are only putting Creative Commons or Public Domain pictures and photos on their blog posts. So many photographers out …

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Jul 01

Gamifying Take 2 #3dgamelab

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Gamification
July 1, 2013

This past year I tried my hand at gamifying my classes after reading Lee Sheldon’s Multiplayer Classroom. It was quite a failure. The class didn’t feel like a game. Kids didn’t show the level of engagement I was after. After going gradeless and offering kids more and more choice to take charge of their learning …

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Jan 29

Naturemapping Field Trip

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science
January 29, 2013

We got an opportunity to go naturemapping so I volunteered our 8th graders since they’re all learning Life Science this year! An amazing AmeriCorps Volunteer, the one who taught my 8th graders last year about Rain Gardens, organized the whole trip for us! We were very fortunate indeed. We took over 70 kids on a …

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Mar 03

Lab Saved!

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Class News
March 3, 2011

Last week our 8th grade Bacteria Labs went all wrong. Student teams went all around the school swabbing different places to see where they would find the most bacteria. What happened was something I didn’t expect, not one single petri dish showed any growth. No bacteria, no mold, nothing. We discussed possible sources of error …