Over the 30 years plus that I’ve been teaching, I’ve seen a reflection of what’s happening in the elementary and secondary classrooms in California. There have been ups and downs. Among the “downs” were the cohorts of students who had no clue whatsoever about the differences between “there,” “their,” and Read more…
Just got a nice email from Blogged.com telling me that their editors had reviewed my blog and given it an 8.2 “great” rating in their Health category. I feel a little bit like a student again, as my site was “graded” using the following criteria: Frequency of updates (oops…that’s tough Read more…
On Monday, our Sensation Perception class followed up the jello study by investigating supertasters. There are a number of resources online that help you identify what kind of taster you are. So we did 5 different assessments to see if they would give us the same answers. One of my Read more…
April 14th is Mr F’s birthday, and he wanted to celebrate with a very non-Jenny Craig meal of cheese fondue and cheesecake…do we see a trend here? I guess for those of us with Swedish genes, cheese is one of the major food groups. I mentioned in my matching hypothesis Read more…
Well, the results are in on my first attempt at March Madness brackets, and they’re not pretty. Okay, I sort of lost it when Tennessee didn’t go as far as I thought (but way to go Lady Vols! Karen is so pleased!). Nearly all of us picked the Bruins to Read more…