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.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
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.
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.
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.
-t - Jul 21, 2005 9:33:44 am PDT #1835 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Probably too late for Emily, and not likely to be relevant, but I have a survey taking story.
There were people taking surveys all the time at my college, a lot classses required it for one reason or another. One particular one had the respondents sample two cola drinks and choose which they preferred. I tasted both and said I couldn't tell the difference. "Just pick one" the data gatherer said. So I did,a dn she marked down my choice.
And then revealed that the two colas were, in fact, identical and the survey was supposed to show something about people perceiving differences that weren't really there.
Emily - Jul 21, 2005 9:35:29 am PDT #1836 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Ah, but if it were science, it wouldn't be so frelling hard!
It doesn't help that the guy teaching this class is a science teacher. So he keeps saying things like, "I think this is probably much harder for you math and foreign language teachers," and then giving another science example.
Anyway, the learning plan's done. Now I have to "justify" it and "reflect" on it.