Category: Science

Managing Class Data in Google Sheets

In chemistry, I have students create a solubility curve for an unknown salt to demonstrate how temperature affects solubility of materials. The pro... Read more

MSTA 2024

I attended the Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference on March 1st. It was the first all-science teaching conference I'd attended, which ... Read more

Ogallala Aquifer Lesson Resources

We're wrapping up a case study on the Ogallala Aquifer this week and I'm happy with the kind of exploration students have been able to do. Original... Read more

Grace Hopper Models a Billionth

This is worth watching. When we're describing principles to students - especially concrete thinkers - modeling and finding concrete examples of abs... Read more

DNA Structure Card Sort

This week, I co-taught an AP Biology class with one of our high school teachers. She was looking for a way to have students wrestle with the molecu... Read more

17 Year Cicadas

[|](https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5533/10176913895_fb59a06963_z.jpg)| [flickr photo](https://flickr.com/photos/bennettscience/10176913895 “DSC_01... Read more

Mercury’s Transit

[In 2012](http://blog.ohheybrian.com/2012/06/venus-flyby/), [we saw Venus transit the sun](http://blog.ohheybrian.com/2012/06/venus-the-aftermath/)... Read more

The Power Game

I did something I normally don’t do: I had my students play a computer game for class the other day. We’ve just finished nonrenewable resources – s... Read more

Fly, You Fools!

This semester, a few classes asked for bi-weekly review over the entire year so they can keep old material fresh. I was really happy to get these r... Read more

Learning as a Sum of Experiences

I’ve been working very hard this year to make sure students experience science – or the process of science – as much as possible. Physics and chemi... Read more

The Earthquake Lab

Waves are tricky to teach. Students feel like they already have a ton of experience with them (you’ve been to the beach somewhere, I’m sure.) and t... Read more

Into the Deep End with Circuits (and Batman)

I’ve been looking forward to teaching electricity all year. I’ve never done it before and I was excited about the hands-on stuff you can do. Who do... Read more

Newton’s Laws Posters

I don’t know what day of class this is, but here’s what we did today. We took a test a week ago that did not go well, to say the least. I already w... Read more

An Experiment in Process

This post outlines a recent lesson and activity I designed for my integrated chemistry/physics students. Fair warning: science ahead. The Problem I... Read more

Look Up! It’s a Space Comet!

I get really, really excited about comets. I remember seeing comet Hale-Bopp back in 1997 hanging in the sky and being amazed that those wanderers ... Read more

Protein Permutations

Proteins are some of the most varied, complex, and mind-bending models studied in biology. Built from our genetic code, proteins have multiple leve... Read more

Bathoughts

I’m on bath duty each night. After dinner, the water runs, and Meredith gets really, really excited. The tub is full of boat, plastic chains, and f... Read more

Chemical Reaction Cards

I came in today and found out that every computer in the building is being used for testing for the entire week. That kind of threw off my plans. S... Read more

NASA Shares Awesome Science

Update 9:00 PM – I added a link to the docking procedure run earlier this morning. If you teach science, get on Twitter or Facebook and follow NASA... Read more

Chemical Equation Inquiry

Liza Basden is a chemistry teacher in Illinois that I connected with earlier this year. Periodically, we’ll share resources with one another for la... Read more

More Faith

I did a webinar yesterday afternoon with Marc Siegel, Deb Wolf, and Ramsey Musallam on the various ways Flipped Learning can be incorporated into a... Read more

Full Immersion

My wife showed me this video the other night. If you haven’t seen it, consider taking thirty seconds to watch it. I’ll wait. At the time, I was ent... Read more

A Parable

This Halloween, I did a demonstration in chemistry that’s usually called “*`Genie in a Bottle `__*.” This year, I deci... Read more

Venus: The Aftermath

I promised people that I would post pictures and/or a video on how I watched the Venus transit last night. Well, they’re ready to share. It was gre... Read more

Venus Flyby

Flickr CC, howzey Tuesday, June 5th and Wednesday, June 6th, we have a great opportunity to see the planet Venus travel across the face of the sun.... Read more

Opportunities

I sat outside this morning drinking coffee and watching a bumblebee flop its way through a camellia, hunting for nectar. With each foray, her hairy... Read more

“Academic Bowl” Paradox

Last night, I read the science questions for the Indiana Academic Bowl our school hosted. The city schools all sent teams of students to participat... Read more

The Problem With Writing

I recently had a discussion with other science teachers about the role of writing in our classrooms. The discussion that ultimately emerged revolv... Read more

Virtual vs Tangible Labs

At this moment, the AP Chemistry exam is in 19 days. I have about 1.5 chapters to cover with class only 3 times per week. I was at this same point ... Read more

Student Nuclear Chemistry

I love being a teacher and I love being a soccer coach. But, those tend to get in the way of one another. Being an international school, we compete... Read more

Periodic Table of Cereals

Update 9/18/2012 – Unfortunately, the videos no longer work because the students closed their accounts. Feel free to use this Google Doc for the ac... Read more

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