Posted in Hermetic Lessons, Science on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mission to Europa
Objectives
Teach space topic (learn about planets)
Review energy and forces topics
Imagination
Creative writing
Problem solving
Teamwork
Introduction
The students are to split into groups of 4. They are astronauts and there task is a privately sponsored mission to explore one of Saturn’s moons, Europa, to explore for life. Europa is like a goldfish bowl made of frozen water and [...]
Posted in Hermetic Lessons, mathematics on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Purpose
A student in my mathematics class continuously asked what is the point of all this? She was referring to the study of subjects like trigonometry and algebra. I will never use this in life, she said. I agreed that she almost certainly would not, in fact I hoped she wouldn’t commenting on how boring it was [...]
Posted in Poetry on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have to say I do love this job. At my appraisal the other day, my mentor and I agreed on what a great school it is to work at in terms of personal freedom to try out new ways of teaching – although many teachers bemoan the “lack of management”, coming from an over-managed [...]
