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High school physics education issues as seen by some American teachers: From content standards to critical thinking

Sunday, January 05, 2025

New Jersey Drones ... never forget

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As 2024 came to a close, the skies over New Jersey seemed to be cluttered with unexplained drones. Stories of these UFO drones filled social...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Eclipse Pegboard 3.0

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Pegboard 1.0 While driving to Winnemucca for last October's annular eclipse, I stopped by the Lowe's in Idaho Falls to pick up a pan...
Sunday, December 03, 2023

SNL "Posters" - Marcello Hernández was cheated

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"Posters" has been a recurring skit on Saturday Night Live. It originally featured guest Emma Stone and cast member Pete Davidson,...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

PSSC Film Archive posted on Reddit

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In retirement, I find moments of serendipity from time to time. While meandering the Interwebz looking for the source material used in a les...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Chicago’s Most Haunted - Undead Edition

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When I came across a credulous local TV affiliate news item in 2006, I immediately turned it into a blog post . But the Internet is ephemera...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Is a tape measure a constant force spring?

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I recently came across a video of tape measures "racing" along a board of wood as they retract. Who doesn't love extending the...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Heterogeneous Lab Groups

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Rationale and method for creating lab groups that consist of four students, each from a different performance quartile Paperwork Reduction M...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Test Correction Mastermind

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I clearly wanted to turn assessments (summative assessments, mind you) into learning tools, as evidenced by Test Correction Journals (see pr...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Test Correction Journal

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Assessments: quizzes, tests, exams. There is a big part of the teacher's soul that hates these things. We love our subject matter and lo...
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Friday, May 06, 2022

Tangled Up With You

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A theoretical physicist walks into a bar. Specifically, Jim Al-Khalili walks into a recreation of a in 1920s speakeasy where a prohibition-e...
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