Tag: science

There was one student in particular, who I’ll call “Alex.” He excelled in conversations with his peers and often shared his thoughts in class discussions, but his performance on written exams did not reflect the full depth of his understanding.

A fourth grader from High Tech elementary North County stood inside a crater of an extinct volcano. He contemplated where to go next...

"Creating a project-based curriculum in science was going to be a challenging albeit passionate undertaking."

These words are written in memory of Jay Vavra, my former teaching partner...

I have been doing Socratic Seminars in my physics class long enough to know when they go...

The first might be expected of my eighth graders: they were not listening during class. The...

What students find daunting in Biology is not so much the concepts, but the amount...