Hanzon Science

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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Inching toward the new website, getyourhandsonscience.com (sorry, cm-ing)

Whether you inch along, or centimeter along, you can be sympathetic to the old TWAINMAN as he crawls toward publication of his new webbaby, http://getyourhandsonscience.com I'm being helped by gomedome, one of the many signgularly exceptional Inhabitants of Blogitville, CS. (CS is cyberspace, where... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 3, 2006

TWAINMAN 'S getyourhandsonscience.com Website is coming out this week!

TWAINMAN'S getyourhandsonscience.com Website is coming our this week! Those of you who have been supporting my spirits by reading my posts have been wondering when my website will be up. Richard Bartteram in South Africa is building it tomorrow, with his fine team of designers and programmers, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Make Yourself Some Oxygen!

Make yourself some oxygen! This is for "adults only," but not because it's sexy, but because it can be dangerous. I don't suggest anyone do this unless they are wearing a plastic apron, plastic or rubber gloves, safety glasses or goggles, etc. The reaction produces the kind of bubbles you get when... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 31, 2006

My New Website is getyourhandsonscience.com==Hang in there, delayed a bit!

If you are frustrated by not finding my new geryourhandsonscience.com website, please forgive me. It's going to be a rich source of great activities, but I'm learning as I go, and the process of constructing this site is new to me. At the same time, I'm on a team reconstructing my university's web... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 30, 2006

I'm thinking about joy-of-hands-on-science.com for a domain name. . . .

In the USA, I registered joy-of-hands-on-science.com as a domain name and began building a site for teachers, homeschoolers, and anyone else interested in creative, cheap, fun, fascinating, relicense activities that can be done at home or in school or at the place you work (for the entertainment and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 29, 2006

Look for my new website!

I'm building a website for science teachers, homeschoolers, and people who just like to have fun things to build and experiment with. It will also have a large amount of valuable materials, from my Lou-Vee-AirCars, which you can download as plans and make from materials found in every home and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 27, 2006

A Graduation Story

My first cousin, Sue, sent me the Graduation Story. She send all kinds of wonderful stuff, so I read it. I'm going to pass it on to you, but I must give you a few comments of my own about including it in my Hanzon Science/Holistic Science blog. I know, the story sounds phoney, like so many... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

HANZON HOLISTIC SCIENCE: PART II

If you've read part one, you are to be lauded for your persistence. I get longwinded, if you can say that about keyboarding. I don't get long-fingered, but that's for another day. Part I of Hanzon Holistic science teaching had to do with the problem that in the push to "cover the book," many, if not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Holistic Science Teaching: Cover the Bok, Do the Wok

Mon 7/24/2006 9:12 AM Monday, July 24, 2006 HOLISTIC SCIENCE EDUCATION PART 1 I can't believe kids are bored in science classes. That's like saying kids are bored with the X-Box or kids hate sweets. As a former administrator and as a university level editor, and as a teacher of both English and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 23, 2006

The Bok and Wok of Science: What is the Wok of Science?

The Wok of Science In my last posting, I said I'd wasted my first ten years of science teaching (in New Mexico, New Orleans, and New York City) teaching however cleverly and appealingly the Bok of Science: How Animals and Insects and Plants are Classified, How Molecules Gain, Lose, and Exchange... Sign in to see full entry.

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About this Blog

I developed the idea of Hanzon Science (Hanzon = Hands on) because I was dismayed at the way teachers taught science, always talking about it and never really understanding what science is, or how to "do" science. How can they teach what they don't know? My aim is to encourage teachers to teach Holistic science using Hanzon methods. I want to provide awareness of what Holistic science is, and provice recognition and a forum for those who teach it, and set up a place where you can come to download free or inexpensive, high-value hands-on (Hanzon) materials so you can actually do science and not just talk about it. I want to link you to places and websites that promote hands-on teaching and I want you to contribute your own hands-on inventions or activities that kids (of any age) can enjoy and do without fancy equipment or a federal grant. My dream of science teaching at any level is to have a room full of tables that looks more like a shop than a classroom or lecture hall, where th

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