Starting an adventure today

[hazliya]

Today, I hope to get half of my adventure done. And by 'adventure,' I mean room swapping. Due to the massive amount of books and all of that we have, the office is just not big enough. Our bedroom, however, is twice the size with half the stuff. Logical thing to do? Swap rooms. So that's what I hope to accomplish today and tomorrow.

Phase 1: Clean the house and move small furniture and tatami mats.

Phase 2: Move bed, bureau, not-on-wheels bookshelf, and huge desk.

So if I seem a bit wiped, that'll be why. =)

-Haz

P.S. I got my explo packet today - $3700 for 7 weeks teaching summer camp. Awesome. Now to start designing my curriculum...

Any of you science-type people out there, any ideas for games about genetics? So far, I have "find a partner, what would your children look like?" and some predicting evolution games.

Or what about issues for Popular Science? So far I have stem cells, plastic surgery, cloning, prosthetics, and organ growing. As for games for this one... so far I have Jeopardy.

Comments

[hntrpyanfar.livejournal.com]

Hrrm. Unfortunately, most of the 'popular science' topics I can think of smack political. Biodiversity. Climate change. Xenotransplantation (related to organ growing). GM foods. Hydrogen cars (pros and cons). Bacterially synthesized fuels. The NEED for more antibiotics, and the dangers of over-prescribing them. Differences between bacteria and viruses.

Science topics that can have fun games - gases and pressure (balloons!)
Acids and bases (vinegar/baking soda volcano!)
Paper airplane racing (some classical physics - good introduction to vectors if the day is windy)
The energy race/game (Basic thermodynamics - I can explain this better in person)
Predator/prey blindfolded tag (I was good at this one, and ditto)
Another version of Jeopardy! combined with a relay race. (You have to answer a science question correctly before you can pass the baton)

Does it all have to be genetics? (I like genetics, don't get me wrong. :)

[hntrpyanfar.livejournal.com]

Color me crazy, but you could have a competition between teams to illustrate either DNA replication or mitosis using themselves. (Somewhat like London Bridge is Falling Down combined with Ring-around-the-rosy for DNA replication, and you'd need a couple jump ropes for microtubules in mitosis.)

What's the age group you're looking at? I think I'm probably skewing younger. ;)

[hazliya.livejournal.com]

High school juniors and seniors, so I can totally go for pop culture references.

[hntrpyanfar.livejournal.com]

Hrrm, I was thinking middle school, though some games would be fun no matter what. (As in, games mean no homework, man!) At this point I'd consider the major topics in a genetics textbook and work from there. How many lessons?

I totally can't help you with pop culture references. All my pop culture comes from YouTube, and I don't go there often. ;)

[reichan.livejournal.com]

I did some things for dominant/ recessive gene parings with middle school kids that actually came from my intro to bio lab. Would you like any of those (still have the book)? It could help with the "what would your kids look like"

[hazliya.livejournal.com]

Sure! That'd be great.