Lesson helps from Cal Academy

While searching for lesson plan ideas (Because my district doesn't have NGSS compliant textbooks or other materials) I came across this from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. It looks like something I can cobble together with some other stuff and have some good lessons.

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Introduction and meeting the needs of diverse students

I began this blog for another course (MAT670, I think) but am now updating it for MAT671. I am about to be fifty years old and I am embarking on a new career. in the past I have been a soldier, a bookkeeper, an advertising executive, a paralegal, and a real estate investor. For the last two years I have been working as a substitute teacher. My education has kind of been all over the place. I was homeschooled until I joined the U.S. Army at age 17. They trained me to be a chaplain assistant, a personnel clerk, and a combat lifesaver (kind like a low level medic. All it really meant was that I could start IVs, treat for shock, and give morphine). The army also sent me to The Air Assault School . About a year before I got out of the Army I took a class in sociology at Austin Peay State University and discovered that I enjoyed academics, so when I was discharged from the army and moved to California I started taking classes at De Anza College....

More Depth of Knowledge Stuff

1. Depth of Knowledge in four content areas . 2. Depth of Knowledge in the fine arts . 3. Depth of Knowledge and technology use . 4. Digital resources to support Depth of Knowledge and rigor in the classroom .

I've seen the philosophies and I think I can do better (a paper written for NU)

Having read the descriptions of the four educational philosophies (Cohen, L. 1999) I was, at first, equally attracted to Perennialism (Munoz, K. 2013) and Essentialism (Borst, T. 2014), but after reading more in depth about each of them I think I have decided that Perennialism is better than Essentialism, in so far as each was presented by Munoz and Borst. I have been a fan of Mortimer J. Adler for decades, having first read his book Six Great Ideas in 1991. Later, I found out about his great books program at the University of Chicago when I became interested in the economics program there. I read a lot of the books on that list though I never bought the whole set edited by Adler and his friend Robert Hutchins. A few years after that, with my own children I used many of the childrens books recommended by Adler; The Blue Fairy Book (Lang, 1965), Treasure Island (Stevenson, R. 1993), and The Three Musketeers (Dumas, 1993) became favorites of all my sons. ...

The New Science Teacher

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