Yearly Archives: 2015
Remember when the world used to be magical to our young minds? There was a time when all of us added one thing to another just to see what would…
Using Little Alchemy to Teach Science
In your average school, education has become a struggle for teachers to teach and for students to stay interested, let alone keep ahead of the curve. Yet, there is a…
The importance of out of school learning
Do you remember sitting in a class you didn’t particularly care about, bored out of your mind to the point of distraction? Of course you do. We all had classes…
It’s time to make learning fun again
While teaching at a science education class at Purdue University, the class showed us several popular myths of science that are ingrained in society. While tutoring this week, I decided…
Classroom Misadventure: The myth of theory
I once taught under a professor named Dean Ballotti. He was interesting because he had a Ph.D. and years of experience in geology, but later went back to school and…