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Anna Moore

BioBlog | The AP Biology Class Blog of Deer Park High School - 0 views

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    This is a new blog started by a AP bio teacher. I figure it might end up having some useful things on it, but even if there's not content that is of immediate use, it might prove to be a good example of a way to use a blog in a classroom.
John Burk

Christmas with Faraday: The Chemical History of a Candle | Cocktail Party Physics, Scie... - 0 views

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    great blog post describing Farady's chemical history of a candle lectures. 
John Burk

Awesome idea for warm-up questions via blog - 0 views

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    Great idea for formative assessment. Schedule automatic posts to the blog, and have kids write comments as their answers. 
John Burk

dy/dan » Blog Archive » [3ACTS] Joulies - 0 views

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    great multimedia experiment on Joulies coffee warmers. 
John Burk

An Evolution Animation Unlike Any You've Seen Before… | PsiVid, Scientific Am... - 0 views

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    Awesome evolution lesson using elementary students
John Burk

This Is What A Scientist Looks Like - 0 views

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    excellent tumblr blog with pictures of real scientists. 
John Burk

Science teacher: Teaching photosynthesis - 0 views

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    A great blog post about how an excellent biology teacher teaches photosynthesis to get past the "plants turn light into food" simple understandings. 
John Burk

"On matter as a form of energy" (written in 1881) | Skulls in the Stars - 0 views

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    great blog post explaining origin of E=mc^2
John Burk

How to Read a Scientific Paper : Uncertain Principles - 1 views

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    Really great blog post with detailed instructions on how to read a scientific paper. If you wanted to instruct students on this skill, you could simply give them this post. 
John Burk

dy/dan » Blog Archive » Can Someone Tell Me What I'm Looking At Here? - 0 views

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    very cool rotational kinematics problem-can you predict the price is right spinner. 
John Burk

Science teacher: Fond of bonds - 1 views

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    awesome explanation of chemistry/ activation energy/bonds. This is one of the best blogs I've read-simply lyrical descriptions of science. 
John Burk

Chemistry with Rising 9th Graders « Physics&Parsimony - 0 views

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    great blog post explaining why balancing reactions doesn't mean you have any understanding of what is actually taking place in that reaction. This calls into question the usefulness of teaching how to balance equations to middle school students 
John Burk

RRResearch - 0 views

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    cool blog by researcher who is attempting to replicate the arsnic based life research. 
anonymous

Not Even Wrong - 1 views

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    Peter Woit blog about string theory
John Burk

A lesson from physics: Even lucid lectures on abstractions don't work « Compu... - 0 views

  • “I point to the following unwelcome truth: much  as we might dislike the implications, research is showing that didactic exposition of abstract  ideas and lines of reasoning (however engaging and lucid we might try to make them) to passive  listeners yields pathetically thin results in learning and understanding – except in the very small percentage of students who are specially  gifted in the field.” Arnold Arons (1997)
John Burk

Large lecture inquiry: How to engage students in the practices of science - 0 views

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    excellent inquiry lesson on magnetism suitable for large classes
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