Keep Asking.
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Where did all asteroids come from?
Where did the asteroid belt come from?
Where did the red spot of Jupiter come from?
Why is there so much clouds... on the planet?
Who are we?
Where're we going?
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Bridging the Gap, Day 7—Scientific Explorations
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Forces/Physics—force is either a push or a pull; tension/compression. What pulls? Gravity. Mass, dancing forces.
Read MoreScientific Responsibility
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It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress and great value...the great progress that is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom, to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed, and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.
Read MoreField Notes
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These are our personal journals—our Field Notes. In here we note what we see in the wild, patterns we suspect and detect, challenges and maps to solutions...Questions, ideas, thoughts we want to explore, small celebrations and gratitudes throughout the day—this is what we scientists do; observe and note curiosities and patterns and things that grab our attention. I say "we" because I, too, participate and benefit from this exercise.
Read MoreWanderers
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We are all crew on Spaceship Earth—a speck of dust hurtling through time and space so vast that we, after multibillion year-old of light bouncing off of the photon detectors in our eyes, have yet to see its end. So much yet to discover, so much treasure all around and throughout us—all around and throughout us. How can we resist that sparkling lure?
Read MoreWhere Good Ideas Come From
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"Chance favors the connected mind."
What means "connected?" Connect how?
Ideas cross-pollinate and bear fruit just like flowers. Ideas live in minds and books/words/stories are the bees that transmit them from flower to fertile flower.
How do we promote that in the classroom?
Read MoreBaloney Detection Kit
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Carl Sagan is bright light in human history, and one of my greatest inspirations. In his wonderful exploration of pseudoscience + our defense against it in The Demon Haunted World, Sagan outlines what he calls our Baloney Detection Kit as a means of guarding ourselves and each other from daily cunning and deceit.
Read MoreA Still More Glorious Dawn Awaits...
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"A still more glorious dawn awaits—not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise—a morning filled with 400 billion suns."
Read MoreBridge the Gap, Day 7—Suspension: Ropes, Threads, Connection
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Eventually I'd like to see all of my dream units outlined and detailed—from the annual overview, to the unit/week/day overview, to the individual lesson plans—all outlined here and exercising multiple intelligences, scaffolding, PBL, Bloom's Taxonomy, real-world application and the Magic of Reality.
For now—I'm bridging the gaps with placeholders.
It's the Curious that Change the World
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"I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows...I would find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it is the curious that change the world."
Read MoreCultivating Cultivators
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What is your philosophy and experience re: teaching ethics, social awareness, values and social skills, articulation, persuasion and decision?
Read MoreWhy Oh Why Oh Why....
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Why does a horn make music?
Why, oh why, oh why?
Because the horn-blower blows it.
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