Scientific Method on the show The Big Bang Theory

Big Bang Theory!

One of my favorite shows used in the classroom. As soon as I heard the sentence while watching the show I immediately went to YouTube to find the scene!

Tide Teaching Moment

I am staying right on the beach in Homer, Alaska where it is said to have one of the most drastic tide differences. I have decided to do a little daily record for myself. I am just truly amazed! I have taught about tides but I have never seen it myself. I can't wait to teach about tides with my own pictures : )

I took these pictures with HDR turned on, on my iPhone and then used a text in picture editor app to add the time on top. I'm a little obsessed with this app now... It's so fun and you can keep your original picture clean without the text as well in your photo library! 

I started to take these on 6/10/13

It is officially 6/11/13 now and I'm still watching the tide!

I can only view on my phone so anyone viewing on a desktop or laptop may be able to see it better but it was about as dark as Alaska gets at this time of the summer. 

More pictures from this day and the tide to come!

Vacation In the classroom

This glacier ice is not from Ruth's glacier but rather from another glacier we viewed after a boat ride from Seward out to resurrection bay which is in the Kenai Pennisula. Glacier Pictured below 

Ruth's glacier is below

I am currently on a FABULOUS trip in Alaska and have been thinking about science and teaching about 50% of the time! So many things tourist guides have told me, multiple Alaska children's books, and beautiful pictures and videos I have captured can be used in the science classroom. I am in heaven for many reasons! I have decided that I want to visit every biome possible and take pictures because it will be so fun to teach about the tundra and glaciers considering I have now not only touched glacier ice but landed on a glacier in a plane! 

This is a picture of the plane we rode around Mt McKinley (the first picture below) and eventually landed on Ruth's glacier(the picture above).