Glaciers Melting!!!

I think about the effects of global warming all of the time especially since I live on a barrier island- I can see the beach being eroded. I know some is natural, barrier islands are constantly shifting, but the rate seems a bit fast- more than several feet are missing every year. I keep telling my husband that we should move to the mountains near a large water source- like a lake or spring. Of course he thinks I’m crazy and says that if it ever gets that bad, it would be horrible anywhere. Then I think that maybe Florida wouldn’t be such a bad place to be if the Gulf Stream is stopped by the glaciers & poles melting, and we go into some sort of ice age. We’ll be in one of the warmer spots! Did anyone else watch the PBS movie on the glaciers melting?

The 5 E's

I have never done the lesson plan that I have created but it is one that I would like to try. The lesson is on evolution, one of my favorite topics to teach. I would like for a group of students to create a StoryBook presentation on how a certain place in the world- Australia, Hawaii, a desert in Mexico- has evolved, with regard to the organisms that inhabit it, over time. I have never done StoryBook either! Has anyone out there done StoryBook?

I have never created such an elaborate lesson plan- never have the time. I kind of follow the 5 E’s when I do create lesson plans but I think that I have been doing the lesson plans for so long that I just don’t think about them.

The 5 E's

I have never done the lesson plan that I have created but it is one that I would like to try. The lesson is on evolution, one of my favorite topics to teach. I would like for a group of students to create a StoryBook presentation on how a certain place in the world- Australia, Hawaii, a desert in Mexico- has evolved, with regard to the organisms that inhabit it, over time. I have never done StoryBook either! I was suppose to take a class on it after school was out in June but I had to cancel because I had to attend a funeral in Delaware. Has anyone out there done StoryBook?

I have never created such an elaborate lesson plan- never have the time. I kind of follow the 5 E’s when I do create lesson plans but I think that I have been doing the lesson plans for so long that I just don’t think about them.

Overstuffing of Science Curriculum in Middle School

My “overstuffed” curriculum was recently reduced but since the elementary schools are not teaching critical areas in science, my curriculum is staying exactly the same- “overstuffed”. Basic concepts like differences between an invertebrate and a vertebrate are not being covered in my county, in the elementary schools. Is anyone else having the same issue in middle school science?