Comments on: 2012 http://msrubin.teachfor.us/2009/11/18/2012/ Hopefully not blinding any of my students with science... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:52:33 +0000 http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/?v=1.0.1 by: VG http://msrubin.teachfor.us/2009/11/18/2012/#comment-528742 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:15:38 +0000 http://msrubin.teachfor.us/2009/11/18/2012/#comment-528742 I guess you weren't yet teaching on 6.6.06. Been through this before . . . I guess you weren’t yet teaching on 6.6.06.

Been through this before . . .

]]> by: mar-mar http://msrubin.teachfor.us/2009/11/18/2012/#comment-528649 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:03:03 +0000 http://msrubin.teachfor.us/2009/11/18/2012/#comment-528649 http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/ http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/

]]> by: Laurie http://msrubin.teachfor.us/2009/11/18/2012/#comment-528647 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:24:17 +0000 http://msrubin.teachfor.us/2009/11/18/2012/#comment-528647 Haha. This is too funny. Kids do have a unique way of freaking out over such insignificant things. On a serious note though, I think this would be a great opportunity to incorporate into your lessons the fact that scientific theory is based on evidence rather than intuition, superstition, folklore, hunches, rumors, etc. I'm guessing you've already covered this with them, but here would be a great opportunity to re-visit this information so they could see for themselves exactly what that unit was pointing out. Haha. This is too funny. Kids do have a unique way of freaking out over such insignificant things.

On a serious note though, I think this would be a great opportunity to incorporate into your lessons the fact that scientific theory is based on evidence rather than intuition, superstition, folklore, hunches, rumors, etc. I’m guessing you’ve already covered this with them, but here would be a great opportunity to re-visit this information so they could see for themselves exactly what that unit was pointing out.

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