Laws of Gravity

Take one staple. Unbend the corners so it's as straight as you can make it. Fold a sticky note into a triangle thingie. ( Here's ...

The other day as I was clearing out some old papers, I found some blog posts that I'd never posted. I wrote them down with the intent...

We are currently on winter break, but I had a few left over posts from the last couple weeks before the break.  "I need to blow my...

Seventh grade science. It's nearing the end of the year, so they were working on a major project--The Body Book. (It's a review...

Friday. Middle school. Fundamentals of engineering. Their assignment was to sketch out an alphabet that looked roughly like this: ...

Friday. Sixth period. On a day that had been drizzly and dreary. For a middle school special ed math class. They were... interesting......

Middle school "home arts". Apparently, that's what we used to call "home economics". The end of the semester is...

Graphic arts at the continuation high school. The students have various projects to work on on computers. So, when there were no lesson p...

It's time for #ThrowbackThursday, where I recycle and old post. It's summer, so I've been doing a lot of reading. Just the ot...

I'd had trouble with them all period. I made reasonable requests ("Get to work"; "Turn off YouTube"; "Stop m...

I have a couple classroom pet peeves. One of my big ones is students trying to slip out of class a minute or so early. Occasionally stu...

The first time I saw this (or, perhaps the first time I was aware of it) was during summer school. Apparently, it's the big new thing...

Once again, it is Thursday, and I've taken a trip into the way-back files. This post originally appeared on January 15, 2011 .  The...

Today we go into the wayback files for #ThrowbackThursday. This one is from September 16, 2008 . I have subbed for this particular teac...

Last week was spring break. Since I write my posts a week in advance, that means that this week I'm kind of short on topics. So, time...

It was a middle school graphic arts class. I'm not sure exactly what they do, although the classroom was filled with computers and va...

School is back in session, but as I schedule these before the week, I have not as of this point worked any new days. Which means it...

"What are we doing today?" I didn't growl at the student even though I wanted to. We had just gotten into the room. Mos...

It's summer! And rather than bore you with... Well, I'm not going to go into it right now. So, here's an oldie from December 3, ...

Ms. P warned me about her 5th period. She explained that they had a packet of worksheets, and the way she described the assignment put me in...