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Philippine-American Life Through a Scientific Lens
Category Archives: Teaching Methods
Somerville fireman video
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Our Mars habitat
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Mars time
This time of year is perfect for an outside science project. My classes are learning about Mars and the possibility of going there in the future. We will be starting the Mars Habitat project this week. Today we picked the themes for the six habitats. Tomorrow, I will announce the lead engineer and assistant engineer [...]
My rocket launcher video
Here is the rocket launcher that I use for my science class. We build rockets from 2 liter bottles of soda. You can see this rocket launcher in action on the school web site here. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments. Get the Flash Player to see this content. var [...]
Make a paper mache eye
This week in science class we made an eyeball from paper mache using water, newspaper, and glue. Currently, we are learning about the eye and vision. I have my students know the different parts of the eye and a general overview of how vision works. The vocabulary for this topic is the retina, rods, cones, [...]
Using MacSpeech Dictate
My new software arrived in the mail on the Friday before Christmas. I decided to buy MacSpeech Dictate because my typing skills are not that good and I read some good posts about the latest in speech recognition. Last month, I read an article on Pro-blogger by Jon about how speech recognition software is much [...]
The Great Bag of Science
This past week I had the opportunity to go inside a large plastic bag and have the air sucked out. Why would I do this? I did it because this demonstration was about air pressure. When the air is sucked out of the bag, one feels the combined air pressure of 14.7 psi. It is [...]
Rocket launch
My eighth grade classes launched their water rockets last month. I took video of the students and their rockets and now have it posted to our school’s website. I made an iMovie from all the video clips. I originally had it as a twenty minute video, but I edited it down to about four minutes [...]
A stormy night in Kaputian
After lunch in Penaplata, we headed south looking for a place to stay. I wanted to go down south as far as possible on the east coast, but, as I said the last time, the road curves inland towards the center of the island. So I decided to head south on the west coast to [...]