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.

Ooh, that's a plan.

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.

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.

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.

I see a lot of surveys like that -- forcing a choice between things that maybe you don't find all that different, and then making some conclusion about people's preferences. Whichever.