Good lord. I would fail that question because, most of the time, I'd rather wait an extra minute than get into a confrontation with a stranger.

I've gotten into bitter public arguments with people because they stopped to chat excessively with a clerk while a long line of people was waiting behind them. This didn't make the lines move any faster, but at least the guilty party's blood pressure got raised as much as mine did.

Nope, don't need the whole article. Thank you, though! I'm going to bookmark some links so that if I actually decide to teach this at some point I can find things.

Thank you everyone for being so helpful! I think this would be an interesting lesson, but I thought that last time and crashed and burned. So I'm trepidatious.

Aw, hell. I forgot I was going to need to justify my learning plan by "invoking" the book we read. Also, I should be thinking about the presentation we're giving on Monday and figuring out whether my group should be designing its final unit plan on differential or integral calculus. Did I mention I have about two hours before I leave for class?

Oh, and the guy who invented the I.Q. test (I think his name was Joe I.Q.) was once asked what intelligence was. He replied, "Intellegence is what my test measures." He was being self-consciously circular to acknowledge the difficulties in defining and measuring intelligence.

By the by, an "inquiry-based" lesson plan is one where the students perform an inquiry as their lesson. They come up with tests or experiments (or you come up with the experiments and have them do them) to illustrate the lesson.

So in this case it would be something like conducting a survey of the other students, or of teachers, or whomever, and predicting whether the sample size or composition will give accurate results.

Fuck me. I hate feeling crappy, but not actually bad enough to justify leaving work. Stupid low-grade migraine. If I could just close my eyes for a while, everything would be OK.

Instead, I file.

Emily, I don't know if it would be at all useful to you, but there are some high school level science lesson plans here. It's a pilot program that the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, the NIEHS Community Outreach and Education Program, and a few universities are doing. Maybe they would have some useful ideas or suchlike.

Poor Jesse. Maybe just take a break and rest your eyes a bit?

Yeah, I'm doing a bit of that.

Oh, in other Jesse's body news, I do think those bug bites were from the flies at the beach, as there have not been any new bites. But man, those itched for a long time!

File with your eyes closed. It's funner that way.