Tag: Science Classes

Feb 09

Inquiry in Science

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science
February 9, 2014

In response to my questions on the Inquiry Dry Spell post I wrote Edna (@whatedsaid) posed some questions to get me thinking about inquiry in my Science classes. She wrote the following on her post, Response to the dry spell… Inquiry encourages students to be actively involved in and to take responsibility for their own …

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Jan 29

Dry Spell?

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science
January 29, 2014

Cross-posted on Inquire Within. I wrote my first post for Inquire Within on Nov 29, 2010 and my last post was on Dec 5, 2011. I’ve gone two whole years without writing a post! Last school year, after many months of not writing a post for this blog, I asked Edna to keep me on …

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Apr 15

EA Gen?

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
April 15, 2013

I haven’t been blogging much lately. I’ve been working on renewing my National Board Teaching Certification, I’m also applying for the Presidential Award for Science (I mean, why not?), and I’m trying to keep up with a great Games Based Learning MOOC that’s going on. Yeah, basically way more than I can chew since classes …

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Feb 01

Change is Hard

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
February 1, 2013

So I am continuing to survey my students. It’s our midterm and halfway through our school year so I wanted to check in and see how they’re all doing. After the positive exit slip experience I had last week I thought this week’s survey would be cool. It was cool but not so easy to …

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Sep 13

iPad and Tech Resources for Science

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science, Tech Integration
September 13, 2012

Check out a blog I wrote sharing iPad apps and other assorted tech resources I use with students in my Science classes on Digitizd (@digitizd): A Science Teacher Shares Tech Resources For Teachers, Parents & Students

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Jul 30

Live Animals in Science

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science
July 30, 2012

Live animals in Science class are great. For the past 15 years that I’ve been teaching mostly Science I’ve mainly taught Earth, Physical, and Environmental Science. Even in Environmental Science we barely worked with live animals. I did get to trap fish with students but we just caught, identified, then returned them to the creek. …

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Jun 11

Alternate Reality Game

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Gamification, Grades & HW, Science
June 11, 2012

This past Thursday Nicholas Provenzano hosted a Twitter chat at #NerdyChat on the topic of Gamification (see transcript here). Gamification is the idea of using the best of video gaming in the classroom. Why? Watch a kid play a video game. Video games hook the player and motivate the player to persevere through failure and …

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Mar 14

Rain Gardens

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Science
March 14, 2012

Friday, March 9, we had six Washington Conservation Corps (WCC) crew members visit all five of my Science classes to talk conservation, watersheds, pollution, our creek and to share a rain garden they planted on our campus. It was a great experience for my kids to see a group of highly motivated young people who …

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Jan 30

Innovation, Passion, Engagement

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
January 30, 2012

It all started when I read on Twitter about Dan Pink’s Fedex Day post for fostering innovation. This sparked something in many educators. Josh Stumpenhorst initiated an innovation day at his school after another teacher, Matt Langes, tried it. Josh’s innovation day even hit the news and Dan Pink himself contacted Josh! The idea of …

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Oct 10

Mr. Gonzalez’s Open House

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Class News, Science, Tech Integration
October 10, 2011

If you have a child in any of Mr. Gonzalez’s Science classes join us for a Science Open House! 6th grade, Wednesday, Oct 19, 6 to 7pm Room 604 (Click here to download the handout.) Sci 2011 Open House 6 Th 8th grade, Thursday, Oct 20, 6 to 7pm Room 604 (Click here to …