The Blog of Phyz

A previous post mentioned the suspension of the CDE's Assessment Review Panels. These are groups of educators and industry professionals...

As I've mentioned before , I'm a fan of not burning through single-use batteries. And we have plenty of need for batteries in the ph...

Back-to-School Night is tonight at Rio Americano. Parents get a chance to see what their son's/daughter's teacher look like as they ...

Take this quiz. It's 12 questions, not all of them terribly difficult. Basic, "science and society" items. Pew Research Scien...

I took down the monkey gun demo today and decided to open up the malfunctioning Target Dropper box. As mentioned in a previous post , the ma...

The 2009-2010 season of Physics Teacher SOS (PTSOS) gets underway this Saturday in San Mateo. Although San Mateo is "sold out," a...

Upon setting up the "Monkey Hunter" demo in AP Physics 2 today, we discovered that the tree's electromagnet would no longer su...

Details have not yet been fully disclosed, but the California Department of Education's Assessment Review Panel appears to have been... ...

December, 2006, there was a blog-a-thon to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Carl Sagan's death. For my part, I posted a set of curri...

There's a rather robust treatment of The Amaz!ng Meeting (TAM) and James Randi in this week's SF Weekly. The Demystifying Adventures...