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Today in the classroom:
First year chemistry is doing a lab modeling how to calculate average atomic mass from isotope data.
Second year chem did their emission spectra data collection yesterday, observing emissions of hydrogen, helium, and neon. They're analyzing that data today. Next week, we'll talk about the deficiencies of the Bohr model and line it up with quantum model (subshells, orbitals, etc).
Today in the classroom:
First year chem students are doing some high-level notes on atomic models and the structure of the atom. Then they'll practice describing atoms based on given subatomic particle data (isotopes, ions, etc)
Second year chem is doing their emission spectra lab today with hydrogen, helium, and neon samples to calculate electron energy changes when excited.
#chemistry #teaching :cupofcoffee:
#FediHire For my other “life,” I’m also open for #writing, #editing, #publishingconsulting and #teaching. I’m an award-winning author of 10 books and editor of 3 anthologies. I’ve taught at the Loft Literary Center, Clarion West online and beyond. My nonfiction has or will appear in “New Edge Sword & Sorcery,” “Library Journal” and elsewhere. My fiction has appeared in several World of Darkness tie-ins and games and dozens of anthologies and magazines.
#FediHire For my other “life,” I’m also open for #writing, #editing, #publishingconsulting and #teaching. I’m an award-winning author of 10 books and editor of 3 anthologies. I’ve taught at the Loft Literary Center, Clarion West online and beyond. My nonfiction has or will appear in “New Edge Sword & Sorcery,” “Library Journal” and elsewhere. My fiction has appeared in several World of Darkness tie-ins and games and dozens of anthologies and magazines.
Today in the classroom:
First year chem is finishing their poster/mural project. We'll do atomic structure at the end of class and practice describing atoms tomorrow (protons, neutrons, isotopes, etc)
Second year is entering the weird world of electrons and empirical atomic structure. Today, we're talking wave-particle duality. I've got a laser and we'll look at interference patterns to prep for the emission spectra lab tomorrow.
I got tired of white walls so we have murals going up giving basic info for atoms on the periodic table. It's a good brain break for students who are tired of dimensional analysis and quantitative work.
As much as I'd like to be planned 2 weeks ahead of time, I can't manage to be more than 3 days or so. I adjust so much based on each day's work that it's hard to have anything scheduled that far into the future.
I know _generally_ what I'm doing (copies are all made a month at a time) but the day to day varies a bunch.
Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
#News #Oklahoma #Trump #Education #Teaching #School #GOP #Project2025
Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
#News #Oklahoma #Trump #Education #Teaching #School #GOP #Project2025
If you have joyful protest and activism on your mind, we have some great film recommendations to feed your heart and at the same time learn about protest history!
Here comes a film thread! 👇
PS Links go to our website, which includes information on where you can view these films, as well as our free lesson plans and discussion guides for your own use or for teaching with these films in your classrooms and community groups!
Edit: Added film trailers because they are all wonderful.
@histodons
#Activism #Democracy #Protests #History #Movies #Documentaries #NoKings #Histodons #CivicEngagement #Education #Homeschooling #Teachers #Teaching
If you have joyful protest and activism on your mind, we have some great film recommendations to feed your heart and at the same time learn about protest history!
Here comes a film thread! 👇
PS Links go to our website, which includes information on where you can view these films, as well as our free lesson plans and discussion guides for your own use or for teaching with these films in your classrooms and community groups!
Edit: Added film trailers because they are all wonderful.
@histodons
#Activism #Democracy #Protests #History #Movies #Documentaries #NoKings #Histodons #CivicEngagement #Education #Homeschooling #Teachers #Teaching
If you have joyful protest and activism on your mind, we have some great film recommendations to feed your heart and at the same time learn about protest history!
Here comes a film thread! 👇
PS Links go to our website, which includes information on where you can view these films, as well as our free lesson plans and discussion guides for your own use or for teaching with these films in your classrooms and community groups!
Edit: Added film trailers because they are all wonderful.
@histodons
#Activism #Democracy #Protests #History #Movies #Documentaries #NoKings #Histodons #CivicEngagement #Education #Homeschooling #Teachers #Teaching
A former student found his sixth grade writing journal, where he wrote every class and then I responded.
He just wrote to me. (I think I taught him in 2004? It was a long time ago). An excerpt from his email:
“I'm amazed at the time and care you took in your responses, especially when I recall that you were reading and responding to the journals of perhaps 60 boys. There are entire pages of what can only be described as arguments between us. My wife is appalled that I would talk to a teacher that way, but I'm realizing how important it was to me, then, to have a space where I could express myself and my frustration openly. In your responses you challenged me and disagreed, but you didn't dismiss my complaints. I was often in trouble for being "fresh" or for "sassing", and I cannot overstate how important the journal experience was for me, even if half my entries are essentially, "I'm bored and don't know what to write."”
Oh, I remember him well. I enjoyed our arguments (he argued with me in class, too). He was sardonic and resistant to taking things on faith, even if he was only twelve years old, and I found him utterly delightful.
I’m crying a little right now.
If you get a chance, thank the teachers that meant something to you. I promise you they will be grateful. #teaching
A former student found his sixth grade writing journal, where he wrote every class and then I responded.
He just wrote to me. (I think I taught him in 2004? It was a long time ago). An excerpt from his email:
“I'm amazed at the time and care you took in your responses, especially when I recall that you were reading and responding to the journals of perhaps 60 boys. There are entire pages of what can only be described as arguments between us. My wife is appalled that I would talk to a teacher that way, but I'm realizing how important it was to me, then, to have a space where I could express myself and my frustration openly. In your responses you challenged me and disagreed, but you didn't dismiss my complaints. I was often in trouble for being "fresh" or for "sassing", and I cannot overstate how important the journal experience was for me, even if half my entries are essentially, "I'm bored and don't know what to write."”
Oh, I remember him well. I enjoyed our arguments (he argued with me in class, too). He was sardonic and resistant to taking things on faith, even if he was only twelve years old, and I found him utterly delightful.
I’m crying a little right now.
If you get a chance, thank the teachers that meant something to you. I promise you they will be grateful. #teaching
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.
#News #Education #Deafblind #Students #Teaching #School #Trump
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
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Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Public #Schools #Teaching #Family #Children
Cutting federal funding. Weakening civil rights protections. Injecting God into the classroom.
Here are some of the ways Trump’s Department of Education could upend public schools.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-department-of-education-changing-public-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Trump #School #Teaching #Parents #Family #Children
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