I’m very excited to be starting a class this week called Web Tools for Science Teachers through Montana State’s MSSE program (Masters of Science in Science Education), and I will be using this blog to post assignments, reflections, and examples of web tools that will be useful in the classroom. While this blog has been up and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘science’
Introduction to WebTools 2011
Posted in education, Education / Science, WebTools, tagged education, MSSE, science, technology, Web Tools on June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Science and Food
Posted in food, science, tagged education, food, science on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry for the lack of posts. Busy at home and at school, and to add to the craziness, I decided to start a food blog a little while ago, you know, in my spare time. That’s not a solo project, though, so with a few friends collaborating there should be more frequent posts and less [...]
Low Tech
Posted in Education / Science, food, tagged bacon, cooking, salt, science on November 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So, in the course of discussing bacterial growth with my seventh graders, we got around to talking about salt and food preservation. (It was only a matter of time.) We had been talking about the conditions where bacteria thrive, and I had them suggest some ways that we keep things from spoiling. They bring up the refrigerator, freezer, heat, plastic wrap, preservatives, antibiotics!, and salt. So we talk about the book Salt, by Mark Kurlansky, which I loved, and here they think I’m crazy for reading a whole book about salt in the first place, but also for liking it…
