Posted: 10/5/2008 11:42:13 AM EDT
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Okay- I teach high school physical science and chemistry. I teach many kids who aren't going on to college but they are still required to pass this class to graduate. So, I struggle to find ways to make the information relevant to them and their daily lives. One way I've done this is to start a blog on my website. Each week I post a current events article that relates to something we will study that week. This week the topics we will study are: Balancing equations Law of Conservation of Mass (mass is neither created nor destroyed in any reaction- ie it may change from solid to liquid but the overall mass stays the same) The difference between physical and chemical changes So- I'm having a hell of a time trying to find a recent article that any of the above will apply to... So, I turn to you- fellow ARFCommers for help. Anyone have any ideas???? |
I do that for my kid too, make it relevant. Not sure about recent articles though. Hey, you could use the "melting icecaps" right? They may be gone, but the mass is the same ie. lapping over [insert poor country here). |
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ohh- that's good- I hadn't thought of that! I wonder if I can find an article on the melting ice caps that mentions mass in any way. It takes a lot of time to do the blog but the kids really seem to like it and I've not had ONE kid ask me this year- "WHY do we have to learn this stuff???" |
Maybe this? ETA: *Editor's note: a transposed decimal point led to an incorrect multiple used here when this article was first published. The energy required is nevertheless hundreds of times greater than evidently assumed by Al Gore. Jerome J. Schmitt has a degree in mechanical engineering from Yale, and is president of NanoEngineering Corporation. 
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Isn't that the Obama plan??? I don't give away free grades. I had to earn mine- my students have to earn theirs... |
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