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My Dissertation Writing Story…

When Dissertation Troubles Surrounded Me: This is an appreciative letter to thank the people who provided pin-point and professional UK dissertation writing help at the time when I was totally disappointed and had braced myself to meet the disaster regarding my PhD degree. It was the worst time of my life when I even thought of my dissertation disapproval. I was busy working and handling my social life. You can say that I was hanging in balan… Continue

Added by Gaili Jensen on September 24, 2009 at 1:04am — No Comments

Education In Environmental Science Improves The Earth

Earth There is a Need for Education in Environmental Science. The Earth faces environmental dangers including natural disasters, technological devastation and environmental degradation. Environmentalists are frantically searching for ways to solve the never ending influx of ecological and environmental dilemmas, but human persistence to ravage and destroy the planet often wins as nature loses. We build houses and sprawling commercial complexes at a rate that was never thought possible. Humans… Continue

Added by Mike Martin on August 20, 2009 at 4:16pm — No Comments

Cool links and such

Hello, good science teacher folk! In fulfilling a requirement for a technology/ELL class I am currently enrolled in, I am joining a Ning group, and sharing some observations with you about some links relating to Robert Marzano's ideas. He seems to stress drill and practice and such. There are a number of cool links through one site that direct the user to brain pop. I had my 7 year old son do some of the activities. He enjoyed it. Worth looking up Marzano strategies online. I like the picture o… Continue

Added by Robert Hecker on July 9, 2009 at 1:18am — No Comments

Inquiry Density Challenge

As we finish up the school year, I decided to give my 7th grade students a challenge. We've learned about density and how to calculate it. We also have taken time to experiment with how various densities allow some objects to float more easily than others. One activity we did was determining which liquids were densest and layering five liquids in order (densest at the bottom to least dense at the top.) Today's challenge involved an empty 35mm film canister for each student. I had large plastic… Continue

Added by Glen Westbroek on May 27, 2009 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments

Teaching Special Education Students

I teached special education students and would be interested to have this community share their experience and any activities that especially worked well in their classroom on my other network ASSET (Association of Science Special Education Teachers). Continue

Added by SCI on April 3, 2009 at 10:20pm — 1 Comment

Job opening: 8th grade physical science teacher

My School, Fieldston Middle School, is a progressive, independent (private) school in the Riverdale neighborhood of Bronx, NY. We are looking for an experienced (4-8 yrs) science teacher to teach 8th grade physical science. Contact me if you are interested: jbaglio@ecfs.org. School website: www.ecfs.org Continue

Added by John Baglio on February 16, 2009 at 6:41pm — No Comments

Densities of liquids

We have been learning about density recently in my middle school science classroom. Most previous work was done using mass and volume to calculate density. This activity was designed to help students identify how density differences in liquids can be used to sort the liquids. Teacher preparation was kept to a minimum. Five different liquid solutions were prepared. Each solution contained corn syrup and water. The solutions were each made in separate 800 ml beakers. The least dense solution had a… Continue

Added by Glen Westbroek on February 6, 2009 at 7:18pm — 2 Comments