MSM 219: Rat holes about electronics.
Presented in collaboration with the Association for Middle Level Education.
Jokes You Can Use:
A biology teacher wished to demonstrate to his students the harmful effects of alcohol on living organisms. For his experiment, he showed them a beaker with pond water in which there was a thriving civilization of worms. When he added some alcohol into the beaker the worms doubled-up and died.
“Now,” he said,” what do you learn from this?”
An eager student gave his answer.
“Well the answer is obvious,” he said ” if you drink alcohol, you’ll never have worms.”
The following 15 Police Comments were taken from actual police car videos around the country.
#15 “Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they’re new. They’ll stretch after you wear them a while.”
# 14 “If you take your hands off the car, I’ll make your birth certificate a worthless document.”
#13 “If you run, you’ll only go to jail tired.”
#12 “Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that’s the
speed of the bullet that’ll be chasing you.”
#11 “You don’t know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can
write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?”
#10 “Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don’t think
it will help. Oh, did I mention that I’m the shift supervisor?”
#9 “Warning! You want a warning? O. K., I’m warning you not to do that
again or I’ll give you another ticket.”
#8 “The answer to this last question will determine whether you are
drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?”
#7 “Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go
to ride on rides, eat cotton candy, and corn dogs and step in monkey poo. ”
#6 “Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven.”
#5 “In God we trust, all others we run through NCIC.”
#4 “How big were those ‘Just two beers’ you say you had?”
#3 “No sir, we don’t have quotas anymore. We used to, but now we’re allowed to write as many tickets as we can.”
#2 “I’m glad to hear that chief (of Police) Hawker is a personal friend
of yours. So you know someone who can post your bail.”
#1 “You didn’t think we give pretty women tickets? You’re right, we don’t. Sign here.”
Eileen Award:
- Scoopit:
- Twitter: Aaron Morris, Chris Billings
- Facebook:
- Google+: Lori Anderson,
- iTunes:
- eMail:
Advisory:
Old Man Toilet Paper Roll Faces
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
RABBITS IN THE CLASSROOM
This podcast is based on the Question of the Month Column, from the Scope on Safety Section of the September 2012 issue of Science Scope magazine, a magazine for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association. It was written by Ken Roy.
This month’s question deals with letting rabbits run free in the middle school classroom. Ken shares advice from the Humane Society of the United States and the American Association for Laboratory Animal Sciences.
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Free Electoral Maps
http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Special-Offers.aspx
2012 Electoral Voting Map: Frequent updates.
http://electoral-vote.com/
YouTube Launches “Star Search” for Teachers
Starting today and running through October 1st, YouTube is looking to identify tenYouTube EDU Gurus.
YouTube has partnered with Khan Academy to run this contest. The ten chosen finalists will receive $1,000 toward for video production equipment, attend a three day workshop with Khan academy staff, and have work featured on YouTube EDU. To enter you have to submit video samples and answer two short essay questions (responses limited to 200 words).
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/09/youtube-launches-star-search-for.html
MemStash
Stop forgetting. Start Remembering.
- Simply highlight any text you want to remember, and click the bookmark “Stash It”.
- We’ll email or SMS you 10 minutes, 24 hours, and 7 days later to make sure you memorize it.
- Optional: Push your notes automatically to your Evernote account.
Save everything. Remember everything.
Vintage Book Posters
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/11/vintage-ads-for-libraries-and-reading/
Web Spotlight:
David Byrne on How Music and Creativity Work
Among the book’s most fascinating insights is a counterintuitive model for howcreativity works, from a chapter titled “Creation in Reverse” — a kind of reformulation of McLuhan’s famous aphorism “the medium is the message”into a somewhat less pedantic but no less purposeful “the medium shapes the message”:
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/13/david-byrne-how-music-works/
Banned from school:
1. Pogs
2. Dictionaries
3. A Hat With Toy Soldiers on It
4. Silly Bandz, Slap Bracelets, and Cancer Awareness Bands
5. Air Jordans
6. “Mom” and “Dad”
7. Peanuts
8. Jamie Oliver
9. Vegetables
10. Skinny Jeans
http://www.worldsstrangest.com/mental-floss/10-things-public-schools-have-banned/
Events & Happenings:
Calendar of Events:
Ohio Middle Level Association:
- The Ohio Middle Level Association will hold their annual conference.
AMLE Affiliate Conferences:
- The Michigan Association of Middle School Educators Annual Conference is coming up March 2013 in Dearborn, MI.
- The North Carolina Middle School Association’s Annual Conference March, 2013
Classroom 2.0’s Live Calendar.
Classroom 2.0’s Ning Blog: Archived content is available.