Tales from the science classroom

I have 3 chemistry classes and they are currently off from each other. I will need to bring them into alignment quickly as I am taking a couple of days off week after next. I'm not sure exactly how to do that with the modeling curriculum expect maybe allow the class that's ahead to do the worksheet in class and give it as homework to the other two. Not sure, have to work on that.  So something I've discovered this week, my story is not cohesive yet. I'm not sure of the progression, even though I've been through it, so I can't make the story connect yet. It seems very choppy and disjointed. I'm hoping that will change over time and I'll get better and smoother at it.  Another thing I've learned is that I need a script. The curriculum comes with printed out instructions and advice for the teacher, but I found it's too much to stop and read a paragraph in the middle of class. I sat yesterday during my prep and wrote out the important things for ...

I have decided to chronicle my journey in modeling. I don't know that I'll post every day but I do want to document the journey so that when I repeat it next year I can refer back here.  School started last Wednesday. On the first day, my plan was to get everyone on to their school email accounts, review the syllabus, and generally just get used to them and me. Well, that didn't go as planned. The laptops weren't staying connected to the wifi so that blew that plan. I ended up giving the pre-test that I was going to give this week. Love technology. They finally got my computers fixed So B day classes got to sign in to the email. This has made the classes off from each other, something that drives me crazy. Trying to fix that now.  Actually started the modeling curriculum yesterday, or tried to. The first thing calls for an exploding can demo. After trying all weekend to make that demo work, even talking to the modeling instructor about why it wouldn't work, I fi...