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Mark Schober

@SchoberScience

Helping students learn science through doing science. Modeling Instruction, STEMteachersNYC, AAPT, SBG

 Manhattan, NY
modelingscience.org
Joined July 2012
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Origin of Solar System elements. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Divona; Reference: Science Blog from the SDSS, Origin of the Elements in the Solar System by Jennifer Johnson
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This personal story from Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell reinforces why she is featured in the Women in Physics lesson from STEP UP! She Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It. @STEPUPphysics @AMTAteachers @nytimes nytimes.com/2021/07/27/opini…
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A banana has half a milligram of Potassium 40 and produces 1.2 million neutrinos a day from the beta decays. The average human body has about 16 milligrams of Potassium 40. That means that you are producing 38 million neutrinos a day! 😃😃😃 – at Thoiry, France
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Don't forget that about six months before the big total solar eclipse on 4/8/24, there's an annular solar eclipse on 10/14/23 that crosses over some truly spectacular landscapes in the American West. Here's an overview of the path of annularity: nationaleclipse.com/overview…
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The Impact of Standards-Based Learning: Tracking High School Students’ Transition to the University journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… #sblchat #TG2Chat #MasteryChat #AtAssessment
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Join us in celebrating this year's winner of the Malcolm Wells Award for Leadership in Modeling Instruction is @aserkin - Congratulations, Ariel!
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Ariel Serkin@aserkin7 Apr 2021
Can anyone explain why we are pretending that the grades we assign have any validity?
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Irv Richardson@Irvpboro8 Apr 2021
Replying to @aserkin
Paul Dressel (1983) has defined a grade as "an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite material."
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Two pictures of the #Moon and #Jupiter taken last night. Left is by me from #Oxfordshire (51°N), right is by @Lornibaby from #Santiago de Chile (33°S). This is what an 84° difference in latitude on a sphere does to the nightsky. Earth is a sphere! #Science
Image from Remco Timmermans (@timmermansr)
Image from Remco Timmermans (@timmermansr)
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Keep eyes posted for this upcoming event, and let them know if you have an idea for a presentation. stemteachersnyc.org/expo/
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What is the "purpose" of grading - what does that "grade" represent? It should reflect what a student has learned (not the average of what they have tried to do). @tguskey @PeterMDeWitt #EWSitsWith @tguskey
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Want to give a shout out to a partner XYZ group on the East Coast! Don't miss out on a chance to learn from some great teachers involved with STEMteachersNYC! There are 10 innovative workshops, starting on July 6th and going into August. Visit stemteachersnyc.org/summer20… to register.
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As a physics professor, I can say this analogy is perfectly accurate. #physicsnerd4life @RyanAbrams13
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Dora Kastel@Dora_Kastel14 Nov 2019
We have had ~1,600 requests for access to our #Physics materials! Excited to share these resources - developed through a collaboration between @NewVisionsNYC & @STEMteachersNYC. Thanks @kellyoshea @SchoberScience! Join here for free access! curriculum.newvisions.org/sc…
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in case anyone has some time on their hands... I thought I'd share my podcast from a few months ago on how the #modeling community has helped me be the teacher I am. bit.ly/2shUlxp
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Hey bio teachers! Stressed? Want to hear how other #modelingBiology teachers are teaching online? Join us for a webinar this Friday: facebook.com/events/s/webina… – at Maricopa, AZ
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Join me on Friday, April 3rd from 7:30-8:30pm (ET). I will be hanging out with @tanea_hibler, Renee Ashlock, and Clarissa Furlong for a webinar on teaching BIOLOGY using various platforms. This is open to ALL! Register here shorturl.at/kmz35
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This is the sharpest movie of the Sun ever made. Even at this fine resolution, the scale is enormous; each plasma cell here is about the size of Texas. nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/fir… via @NatSolarObs
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Joe Cossette@cossettej14 Jan 2020
How can we visualize the effect of noise cancelling headphones? I'm too embarrassed to share how long it took me to get these files right so I decided they needed to be shared with the world 😁 the result is satisfying! Download the files from the blog: passionatelycurioussci.weebl…
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These homemade battery spacers are amazing! Better than anything else I've tried (foil, paper clips, etc) to make a slow moving buggy. * One flat-head machine screw (#6-32 x 2")) * Two fender washers (1/8" x 1") * Three #6-32 hex nuts #iteachphysics #modphys
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Image from Frank Noschese (@fnoschese)
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