This week Sarah Kehoe wrote to ReSET: “My father … recently retired from a phenomenal government  career as an aerospace engineer. I am nominating him for this volunteer opportunity as I know he will love it and be excellent at it. He mentored me in math/science and I now have my PhD in Molecular Cell Biology…

Peter Mehrevari passed this along; it includes NBC News video of him and other ReSET Volunteers (including Christyann Pulliam)  in the classroom at Whittier Education Campus in DC (in Thumbnail 11: What is Innovation?”) Hi John, Just wanted to let you know that today is the official launch of NBC’s series of innovation in the…

Wayne’e report on his fifth grade program: Late in February I finished my 12th one-hour session at Key Elementary School, working with all the 5th grade students (~95) on Longitudinal Waves and Patterns of Sound Waves. The highlight was students seeing and in some cases making Chladni Patterns on square aluminum plates by stroking them…

Hi RESET’ers: If you’re interested in working with students on the experiment Wayne describes (below)let me know (johnmeagher@cox.net). I have some mineral sets in the RESET supply stock. John Hi John, This is just a brief note to bring you up to date on my 2010 RESET classroom activities. This afternoon I finished the fourth…

Report on RESET Volunteer Seminar ReSET had a very interesting panel on June 24, with Nsombi Brown (K-5 science teacher in MD), Charity Felser (DC Public Schools Central Office) and Terry Dade (Elementary School Principal in VA).   The big take-away for me is the need to provide children with inquiry-based (also called “problem-based”) teaching instead…

Mike Fritz, who helped me in the classroom this term, shared his experience with his co-workers at the US Environmental Protection Agency: As I strode to the front of Ms. Molly Moran’s second grade class at Annapolis Elementary School one June morning in downtown Annapolis, I was confident in my lesson plan, so elegantly simple…