Funny thing.
Yesterday I saw Mike O'Donnell in school - Mike used to be a DP at school, and now works with New Era, a company that looks after our computer network.
And today I saw John Heyes, who used to be a DP and now is principal of Mangere College...
Super Twelve lunch time we worked on "Because" (Beatles), Mad World (Tears for Fears), Da Da (a German effort) and Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday).
Band after school we launched into our Abba efforts - Dancing Queen and Waterloo (to which we will add Take a Chance on Me and Thank You For the Music.
Interesting to see what the students know and what they don't know...
Sent one of my year 11 students, Joshneel, to the grand piano in the hall - the canteen ladies (canteen backs on to the Hall) gave him a free muffin for practising a Chopin Nocturne.
Sound surreal? I haven't finished yet!
Went to Alexander's school to find out about options next year...A is pretty set so far on IT, Spanish and Chemistry (he certainly doesn't get the IT or Chemistry trend from his Dad).
We have a daily sanity test in our car pool collective - if we forget who's car we are travelling home in we fail the test (we have all failed from time to time, tho I think Theo is probably the sanest in this respect)...today it was Kerry's turn to forget to come to Theo's car...tomorrow we start all over again.
Now I have finished...
G.
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It's really pretty simple... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10373415
ReplyDeleteBoys and girls want to learn different science lessons
5:00AM Monday Mar 20, 2006
By Richard Garner
Boys want their science lessons to be about weapons of mass destruction and the effect of chemical weapons on the human body.
Girls, in contrast, would prefer to learn about how to deal with anorexia or bulimia or the significance of their dreams.
The stark contrast in what they look for from science has prompted British researchers to call for curriculum planners to consider drafting separate courses for each sex.
The findings emerge in a study of what 15-year-olds want from science lessons carried out by Leeds University, published last week.
It reveals that the prospect of taking a mixed class for a lesson must be daunting for teachers.
"The responses of the boys reflect strong interest in destructive technologies and events," say the researchers. Girls would prefer to learn about their own body.
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Good info. There are actually a whole lot of subject areas where gender difference plays its part, possibly particularly in co-ed schools...
ReplyDeleteJust got back from the Homeschool Science Fair - so much for me making it to Roadkill in time for supper.
ReplyDeleteAs anecdotal evidence of the above differing interests, boys produced experiments involving a trebuchet and magnetic levitation/propulsion (in separate experiments), while the girls included an experiment about how well bulbs grow. A lot of very good work there, and there'll be demonstrations of robots and hydrogen production tomorrrow.
Sounds great!
ReplyDeleteExplosions and violence for boys, growth and nurturing for the ladies....
G.
Hm, actually, one of the girls did a study of things that might affect whether (and how much) cats kill other things. She emailed a questionnaire to everyone she knew who had a cat and got them to send it on. It snowballed and she started getting replies from Australia and Britain. Eek!
ReplyDeleteHer conclusion is that frequency of cat feeding, wearing a bell, if they are inside or out most of the time, and several other things do not affect the amount they kill. I think being outside at night did push the rate up, but basically some cats just seem to kill, while others just seem not to. Cats that live in the country generally kill more things but the proportions that don't kill don't change much for anything. The only thing that worked for them to not kill at all was keeping them inside 100% of the time. Some cat owners do that.
I wonder how many of the "cats that don't kill" just don't bring the dead things home.
Yes, they probably kill away from the eyes of scientific surveyors.
ReplyDeleteSomeone wanted to know where you got the soldier photos from for Roadkill.
Samson is an out-and-out killer, I'm afraid.
AND he tends to turn on you unpredictably.
G.
That's either senile dementia or he's a teenage male. (I'm kidding.)
ReplyDeleteAs for the photos, there's this amazing place called the Internet, and one corner is called the World Wide Web. I found them right there... somewhere. Which soldier photos? I'll give you that CD next time I see you.
Cool.
ReplyDeleteI meant the soldiers on the white house lawn with no weapons, the soldier with the high-five and the soldier carrying a baby.
I got them from the web! It's really amazing what you can find there.
ReplyDeleteThe soldiers in Washington DC were Iraq vets making a protest against the Iraq war, using volunteers to manhandle, and no guns. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/19/18379446.php
The sergeant giving the child a high five was U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Narit during a patrol in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, on 17 February 2008.
Maj. Mark Bieger was the soldier holding the dying girl, also in Iraq. More information about what the car bomb did is here (but remember - it's war; it's not pleasant). http://michellemalkin.com/2005/05/04/photo-of-the-day-4/
The photo was taken by embedded freelance writer Michael Yon, who sued Michael Moore for posting the photo and implying American soldiers were responsible for the girl's death. FWIW Mr Yon has just released a book. http://www.michaelyon-online.com/moment-of-truth-reader-s-corner/
Absolutely fascinating, tho chilling as well.
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