Topic - Carnival of Education

Education Buzz

Welcome to the Education Buzz! Spring is finally here, and it’s time to go outside and drop some Mentos into a big bottle of Diet Coke.

Back already? That was AWESOME, wasn’t it? Aren’t you curious about the result of mixing two simple things? Well, aren’t you? Stay tuned. Sometimes all you have to do is be patient and pay attention, and all is made clear. Ask Newton.

You can join a discussion here on our blog about the right age for students to get involved in science fair. Is kindergarten too early? Then read all about a special boot camp that is changing the science fair experience.

Bellringers (Carol Richtsmeier) presents Writing Competition, Mr. Chicken & Lubbock posted at Bellringers. Bellringers (Carol Richtsmeier) presents Girls Just Wanna Have Fun posted at Bellringers.

Katie from TripBase.com  9 Most Common School Trip Blunders

mmazenko presents Teen Athletes Eating Right posted at A Teacher’s View.

Joanne Jacobs presents Algebra II mandate gains momentum posted at Joanne Jacobs.

Gemma Young presents World

Carnival of Education: It’s So Much Better When You Can TOUCH Things!

We are honored to periodically host the Carnival of Education. Hats off to our good friend Jane Goodwin for all of her work on the latest Carnival. – editor

Welcome to the Carnival of Education, hosted right here at Steve Spangler Science! As all good teachers well know, the best education is the education that encourages us all to get down and dirty with it: in other words, touch it, feel it, experience it fully.  Connect it with other things you know.  Activate your schema!  Textbooks are good, and full of fascinating and useful information. However, if one student is given a textbook reading assignment and nothing else, and another student is encouraged to get up after reading and APPLY what he just read by putting his/her hands into and on and around smelly, goopy, noisy, exploding, changing, growing things, guess which student is going to remember the lesson best?  Guess which student is going to talk about the lesson at the dinner table that nig?t.  Yeah, that’s what we THOUGHT you’d all say! AWESOME!

Here we go! Let’s walk around the lab and see what we’ve

Carnival of Education: Teacher Appreciation!

We are honored to periodically host the Carnival of Education. Hats off to our good friend Jane Goodwin for all of her work on the latest Carnival. – editor

Welcome to the Carnival of Education, Teacher Appreciation version!  Of course, teachers don’t really need to be TOLD they’re appreciated.  I mean, they get all summer off, and all those holiday vacations, and it seems like every time we turn around, there’s some kind of half-day, or day off of some kind for no apparent reason.  So, why should we go out of our way to pat a teacher on the back and talk about appreciation?

How about, um, because our children’s teachers are the adult role model who spends the most time with our children?  Or perhaps because dealing with a room full of small children five days a week is stressful beyond all comprehension and requires beaucoups of energy, patience, sincerity, devotion,  dedication, knowledge, discipline, and the ability to NOT go

Carnival of Education: 209th Edition!

Welcome to the 209th edition of the Carnival of Education!

In a way, every good school is like a big Science Fair; in every room, and for each lesson, teachers have a lesson plan hypothesis – and often, more than one, on a daily basis. Each hypothesis is tested using a group of students variables, some dependent, and some independent, and we all know how changeable kids are, whether we force them to change or they change all by themselves! That’s science, folks.

Each classroom also has its share of outside influences, or interruptions, heating/cooling problems, fire drills, intruder alerts, illness, stubbornness, etc. controlled variables, and we try our best to BE in control, don’t we!

Our purpose is to find out if our hypothesis is correct.  What is the hypothesis, you ask?  I’ll tell you at the end of the post.

Let’s take a stroll down our school’s hallway science fair and see what we’ve got!

Darren was shown proof positive that encouraging students helps them become better people when he had a visit from some