Tales from the science classroom

 Read an article last night about professional journaling for teachers. They highly recommend it. Seems I'm always a little bit ahead of the curve. Hmmm... Since my last post I have not really had a chance to work on my planning. I did start a Google Doc as planned and I got a day or so in there, but that's about it. I got sidetracked making a slide deck for the first day or two and so not a lot of planning got done. What I realized after is that I need to get the planning part done and then fill it in with the things I need, such as a slide deck. I like the idea of making slide decks because I'm going to record my lessons for those that are absent or just if anyone needs it to review. I'm working on flipping my classroom but that will take time.  So today it is back to it. Hubby is heading back to work and I will have a free morning to work. Yay!!!! So I'm going to work on my chemistry and getting it all laid out. Once that is laid out I'm going to work on biol...

 I've begun working on my year plan for my classes and I'm struggling with the best way to set this up. Literally as I was typing this I had an idea on how to do it. One of the AP teachers that I borrowed heavily from last year, has a great set up. She lays out the whole year in a Google Doc and then fills in the details on what is to be done. I've been trying to do this same thing on Chalk and maybe I just need to use a Google doc. Maybe I've been overthinking it and making it more complicated than it needs to be. This other teacher makes a huge document with the year outlined on the first few pages and then links to the individual units and lessons. It ends up being a very large document but all the information is there in one place. I'm trying to put it in Chalk and it's one day at a time and so I'm flipping back and forth between days to see what I did when. I think I may have just solved my own problem. A Google Doc for planning. I'm off.