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What!?! The Science Fair?

• March 9, 2011

My 13 year old daughter is preparing for her first science fair. Not because she has to… but because she wants to. In this post, I am the mom… …Worried that she wants to do a project over her head.  Seriously, what 7th grader wants to know how heavy metals affect bacterial growth?!?   Shouldn’t she [...]


Be Able to Speak Your Mind, Intelligently

• January 18, 2011

Terri, what questions do you have for Dr. Alan Leshner, CEO for the American Association for the Advancement of Science? …Nothing? OK. Next day. Terri, questions for Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology? um… yeah… …silence… Wow. This summer, I had a once in a life time opportunity. I was [...]


Where should we write?

• November 26, 2008

I have a confession. Sometimes I do something in class…  Then I think, “that was stupid…” The Before I believe in science notebooking. I will always believe in science notebooking. Students need a place to articulate their thoughts. A place to create, to think, to reflect, to change, to grow… In science, notebooking is an [...]