Recent content by element08824

Hi Andy -- Yes, I'm following the state standards. There are no graduation exams for Physics in our state.

I agree!

I teach in a school with around 300 students; it is my first year there and I was hired just a couple days before the school year began. Everyone takes Biology or Earth Science. (Enrollment about 60 in each.) Then there is a low-level Chem/Physics course that is more like a general science...

A few years ago, I was teaching science courses at a high school where inquiry was embraced: my predecessor at that school had been doing it since the 1970's. Now in 2012 I am teaching at a high school where I seem to be the first teacher on the high school side that teaches using inquiry. (We...

Hi Rob, I was "thrown in" to teaching Chemistry last semester -- hired August 8th, started teaching the course August 11th. I hadn't had the college coursework in about 12 years. I normally teach another subject. I survived. I faced basically the same quandary as you. I found a few good...