by Deborah | Dec 27, 2016 | School Meddling
If you have teenagers, this would be a good time to take a look at the first two marking periods, evaluate and assess their progress, and make some New Year’s Resolutions. This is not the time or place to be judgmental. This is the time to build a team where you...
by Deborah Davis | Aug 24, 2016 | School Meddling
It’s Back To School Time! The first hint that school is around the corner is the suddenly cool evenings in August. The second is the first orange leaves scattered among the trees. The third is the endless commercials for Back to School sales. I decided to...
by Deborah | Jun 1, 2016 | School Meddling
Final Exams Prep It’s June! Everyone’s thoughts turn to summer vacation. Hold on! If you are a teenager, your thoughts need to turn towards Final Exams Prep…Again. You know that yucky feeling you get in the pit of your stomach at the mere mention...
by Deborah | Nov 25, 2015 | Science Geek Meddling
Have you been on a cruise before? Could you tell whether your fellow passengers were Science Geeks? Probably not. Just finished my very first cruise. That was quite an experience. As I hobnobbed with other cruisers over the final breakfast before debarking, we shared...
by Deborah | Sep 27, 2015 | School Meddling
Yes, I stopped teaching last year to write full-time, but I find myself writing about school. Go figure. Anyway, here are 5 Ways to Build Good Homework Habits. Don’t think for a minute this is all I got for homework habits suggestions, but I said I was going to give...
by Deborah | Aug 27, 2015 | School Meddling
Don’t you just love freshmen? They’re one of my favorite groups of students- a marvelous blend of big kid psyche and little kid sass, of sophistication and naiveté, of brilliance and idiocy. I taught them science for years, watching their morphosis from September...
by Deborah | Jun 5, 2015 | School Meddling
Final Exams Study Schedule It’s June! Everyone’s thoughts turn to summer vacation. Hold on! If you are a teenager, your thoughts need to turn towards Final Exams Study Schedule. You know that yucky feeling you get in the pit of your stomach at the mere...
by Deborah | Jun 1, 2015 | School Meddling, Science Geek Meddling
Fireflies I saw my first firefly of the season last night as I watched the daylight turn to night. It’s a mystical and exciting herald of the pending summer. Every time someone asks me if I miss teaching, I always answer yes because I do. I miss the energy and the...
by Deborah | May 16, 2015 | School Meddling, Science Geek Meddling
The Controversial States of Matter Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space. Hopefully, you are doing more than just taking up space (except you astronomy majors). Everything is made up of matter. Except, of course, non-matter, which is anything that does...
by Deborah | Apr 22, 2015 | The Ripple Effect of Meddling
What’s Your Ecological Footprint? Happy Earth Day! Many Environmental Science classes have their students go through this simulation to calculate their Ecological Footprint on our planet. Take this quiz to measure your personal footprint on our planet:...
