Me making up words for Rotational energy in AP 1: “ So some of the potential energy goes into moving it linearly, while the rest goes into moving it spinnearly” 🤷♂️ #ITeachPhysics #MalvikDictionary
I think someone found the actual video here youtu.be/jV96uhFWgmA
#ITeachPhysics another relative velocity video for you
Ok #ITeachPhysics peeps. How do you even talk about this aerodynamics lesson to a bunch of teenagers? 🤣🤣sports.yahoo.com/olympics/article/crotch-...
Tinker says Merry Christmas!
So much for “states’ rights.” The Illinois state legislature passed a law (signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in early December) that limits federal immigration enforcement by preventing immigration officers from making arrests outside courthouses and
making it easier for Illinois residents to sue immigration agents if they believe their rights were violated. The Justice Department sued the governor and attorney general in an effort to strike the law down. States should have the authority to enforce their own laws.
My takeaway from first semester…it has taken less than 5 years for people to forget what we learned the purpose of in-person school was during the pandemic. Keep pushing your transactional, job-preparation, GPA, test score narratives and we’ll just keep watching people forget how to be people.
#Iteachphysics Daily agenda for the project this year. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#Iteachphysics docs.google.com/document/d/1...
For anyone that is interested in the rules. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
The endowment fund also let me purchase a scroll saw for the physics shop, so 1/8” basswood became the preferred platform material.
Some more designs for the 2025 Presidential Merry-Go-Round Contest. Which one is your favorite? #ITeachPhysics
I’m not sure how effective districts are at implementing such systems, which usually involve opportunities for retakes and abundantly more work for teachers giving feedback and reassessment on summative exams.
From what I understand, Grading for Equity advocates for not placing formative assessments in a mastery-based grading system. Not grading homework/formative assessments doesn’t mean there aren’t regular tests, it just means summative assessments are only ones formally reported on a grade.
Elementary students have an ungodly amount of tech time and lack of productive struggle and free play. My hypothesis is this is tech driven, not grade reporting driven. Free play gives confidence in independent problem solving at young ages.
Worked out solutions always at their finger tips. No coincidence that I have minimal students come ask me for help on really tough HW problems anymore. Often students wait out assignments in class to do it at home, where AI/teach begins to undercut time thinking/processing(no long term retention).
26 yrs since I was in HS and my math homework wasn’t graded in HS most of the time, nor was it a significant portion of my grade. I think it’s pretty common for math teachers in higher level math to treat HW this way. The focus on grades as being the causal mechanism for this seems misguided.
#ITeachPhysics “ low kinetic friction between ice and numerous counterbodies is commonly attributed to an interfacial water layer… induced by high contact pressures or frictional heat. However, even the currently leading theory of frictional melting appears to defy direct experimental verification.”
“I’m just not ever going to use this” is the beginning of the story of regret…or just no story at all…
Just live in this moment and try to learn, dammit.
#ITeachPhysics Is the practice of mental imagery helpful to learning physics? I have renamed my Physics 1 lectures, “How to draw good” bc I hypothesize that reading word problems often doesn’t form a helpful mental image. Am I right? who knows? But the students laugh at my stick figure masterpieces.
a student handed me a paper bc I had our turn in folder in my bag. He asked me if it was OK, and I made a deal with him that if it didn’t make it to the folder he would get 💯. He correctly stated, “If you even remember this conversation happened.” 🤣🤣 I now have two turn-in folders for rotation.
Bernoulli’s Symphony
Every year we go into contract negotiations I wonder how teacher’s salaries will survive this healthcare crisis and I ask my wife if we can just move to Canada, or Norway, or Japan, or Sweden, or UK, or Finland, or Australia, or New Zealand, or France, or Taiwan, or Germany, or…#HealthCareisaRight
Pitch was recorded at 96mph
