Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.

River ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Emily - Jul 21, 2005 8:33:53 am PDT #1825 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

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.


Emily - Jul 21, 2005 8:37:52 am PDT #1826 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

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?


tommyrot - Jul 21, 2005 8:47:06 am PDT #1827 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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.


Volans - Jul 21, 2005 8:50:19 am PDT #1828 of 10002
move out and draw fire

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.


Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 8:58:53 am PDT #1829 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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.


Calli - Jul 21, 2005 9:04:53 am PDT #1830 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

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.


sarameg - Jul 21, 2005 9:11:03 am PDT #1831 of 10002

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


Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 9:21:17 am PDT #1832 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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!


lori - Jul 21, 2005 9:22:13 am PDT #1833 of 10002

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


Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 9:22:59 am PDT #1834 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ooh, that's a plan.