Teaching Transforms

Today I did one of the harder things I've had to do over my four years of teaching.   I told my IB 1 juniors that I wouldn't be retu...

Model Summary:  2D Motion of a Particle Scenario  - How can we tell whether a basketball will make the shot, given a motion map of its pos...

I seem to have fallen behind on my formal model summaries -- although it feels a bit more like they've accelerated away from me / blurre...

After 12 days of discussing the awesomeness of "concept before name", operational definitions, and anchoring experiences, it was a...

Friday was a fun and useful day. I learned that actual real life teachers (Bryan) do actually use system schema to help students figure ou...

Notes from facilitating this morning that I thought were important enough to highlight: Laura's Rules for Facilitation (TM) (Really, ...

Summary of the Constant Acceleration Particle Model Scenario:  A low-friction cart moving up or down a ramp, with increasing or decrea...