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If not now, when? I’m committing to selling my art work. I’m committing to being myself. Even though, of course what that self is remains mysterious. What is a self that I can know it? This fierce creativity that burns remains mysterious. It frightens me. But denying it any longer is futile. I surrender to…

Middle school teachers Jimmie Gilbert and Cheryl Anderson inquire into the physics of forces at a workshop. This activity was a revelation to me the first time I tried it. OMG, it’s a way to visualize force vectors. Although direction only. The magnitude is actually represented by the thickness or thinness of the paper that…

Link to paper.

by Clara Burch This essay by Clara was based on observations in classrooms in a public school in Middle Georgia. I learned a lot from these assigned classroom observations. I learned that it is not difficult to become invisible in a classroom. I learned that observing with a focus is different from a general observation.…

An oxymoron? What would be the contours of such a project? As I (and I am all I’ve got) see it– An understanding of science as a socially constructed set of practices with the purpose of making and evaluating claims about the nature of a taken-as-shared objective world; An understanding that an objective world exists…

Here is a link to a chapter by Wynne Harlan about inquiry questions. http://www.learner.org/workshops/lala2/support/harlen2.pdf

I’m posting these for the convenience of the class, since D2L is being uncooperative. I’ll be taking them down in a week or two, since they don’t really belong in the public sphere. However, they are quite worthy of being seen! Click on the links. Social Studies. (Just click on the url.) http://msletze.edu.glogster.com/twelve-years-a-slave/ Social Studies.…

Please click to download. STEM Writing Heuristic

Click on the links to download Powerpoint Newton’s Cars Lab Instructions