Middle and High School … from a Montessori Point of View
Take home message: As soon as someone’s paid enough that money is no longer an issue, paying them more (or giving bonuses) can even have a negative effect on their performance on anything that requires higher level thought.
Which suggests that if we take grades out of the equation kids will learn more?
Audio from Daniel Pink’s TED talk on motivation.
↬ Mrs. D.
An excellent series by the American Chemical Society starts with the basics of, “How to Write a Paper to Communicate Your Research,” but also addresses the question of why publish your research. It ought to help my students understand why I’m so insistent on lab reports.
NASA’s Perpetual Ocean visualizations are excellent animations of the oceans’ surface currents.
CIR tallies the price of gas, including the externalities — the costs that are not included in the price we pay at the pump.
The Earth will end with fire, non-metaphorically. It will be consumed when the sun expands as it runs out of fuel, 5 billion years from now.
In the early solar system, 4.5 billion years ago, the planets were still coalescing, something enormous hit the Earth.
After it formed, huge impacts shaped the surface of the moon into what we see today. NASA takes up the story:
These videos are awesome introductions to the early history of the Earth, Moon, and solar system.
CGP Grey explains why we need leap days to fill in the calender.
Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been a brutally destructive force in central Africa since the 1990’s. In the last few years the Army has been decimated and pushed out of Uganda, but it still exists and is still kidnapping children and destroying families.
My former students, Sutton and Sage, brought to my attention this video from the human rights organization, Invisible Children, that is making a final push against Kony and the LRA: