David McInnis Third Grade Report: This week I was on my own; two classes, about 1 hour each.  That’s about 35 3rd grade Tasmanian devils swirling around with unlimited energy in a small classroom vessel.   The lesson is what I assisted with last week in the 4th grade classes, sinking and floating, aka density. I…

Rich Repplier says (in response to post below): August 10, 2015 at 8:44 pm I read Marjee Chmiel’s post “When Science Isn’t Fun.” My response is that what she’s talking about is fine for a dedicated college student. But in RESET, we aren’t dealing with dedicated college students. We’re dealing with 10-year-olds who are fairly…

Information on Google’s Science Competition: We’ve become accustomed to assuming boys do better in science and math, while girls dominate in language and history. But it’s high time these stereotypes became a thing of the past. In Google’s first annual science competition in 2011, all three of the finalists were girls, and they beat out…

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…

Seminar Evaluation Form results: Things that worked well: –  Overall, I think that was a very good meeting. Having elementary school teachers at the meeting and on the ReSET Board is an excellent idea. Their remarks at the meeting were quite insightful. Keeping the meeting to a 2 hour limit is also a good idea,…

We are sad to share that Bob Hauptman, a longstanding volunteer with RESET, passed away on June 28, 2018 at the age of 93. Bob had a background in electrical engineering and taught electronics, electricity and physics to children at all grade levels. A veteran volunteer of more than 10 years, Bob continued volunteering into…