Nick Watkins

Is the AI + EdTech symbiosis a slippery slope for education, or a cliff?

Want to know who is using AI the most prolifically? District Admin, not teachers. (Anecdotal to my experience of course). #EduSky #EdTech

Standing Waves in a Microwave One of my favorite applications of standing waves and electromagnetic waves is a microwave oven. Using a pretty simple set up to locate the hot spots (antinodes of the standing microwaves), you can...

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Day 105 Physical Sci - measured speed of light using a microwave to begin class. Used to use chocolate but @cossettej.bsky.social had the great idea to use thermal putty, way more visual and less messy! Remainder of class was light speed transmission calculation practice #iteachphysics #teach180

Day 105 Physics - Students presented circuit projects with diagrams showing voltage, current and calculated resistance at different points #iteachphysics #teach180

Day 104 Physics - continued working on circuit project #iteachphysics #teach180

Speed of Light The Speed of Light Content Objective: I can identify and use the _____________ to solve wave problems with the wave equations Language Objective: I will provide examples of how we use the electromagn...

Day 104 Physical Sci - reviewed EM spectrum and introduced speed of light #iteachphysics #teach180 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Day 103 Physical Sci - assigned 2 readings and questions and had students jigsaw. Good day to consolidate learning and check in with indv tables to check for understanding. Introduced it with a discussion of Hubble telescope + JWST and how they use other wavelengths of light #iteachphysics #teach180

Day 103 Physics - squeezing a circuit project b4 midwinter break. Used to do an electric house but now have Ss look up a viral circuit design, draw the blueprint, then create it or make an original #iteachphysics #teach180

Day 102 Physics - twas a beautiful ☀️ day in the PNW so took my class outside. Despite the climate, our very old campus is outdoor so we traced the exterior light circuits back to the electrical room. Ss finished wiring circuits together and introduced circuit project #iteachphysics #teach180

Used the @mcgraw-hill.bsky.social plant growth simulation to help answer the warmup: “Will plants grow better under green lights? Why or why not?” nt7-mhe-complex-assets.mheducation.com/nt7-mhe-comp...

Day 102 Physical Sci - explored the EM Spectrum with a focus on light we “can’t” see #iteachphysics #teach180 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Day 101 Physics - connecting our circuit work to residential/commercial trades by pulling out 2x4’s, electrical boxes and outlets. Had students wire them and will connect them in parallel next class #iteachphysics #teach180

How am I Seeing You How am I Seeing You? Content Objective: I will be able to build a model of how humans detect __________. Language Objective: I will build a visual model showing how Visible light travels and is absorb...

Day 101 Physical Science - Transitioned into light after learning about waves with sound. Built model of how light ‘travels’ from source to eye #iteachphysics #teach180 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Seahawks!! The year started with ‘meh’ expectations and now they won! Cool to have my five year old excited to watch with me the whole time, still balanced by the chaos of the 3 year old and the ‘can’t-look-away-from me danger of the 10-month old. Cool conversations around the halftime message too

I was just thinking I love this karaoke style commercial! Then the crypto reveal 🤮

A 3-D printed tissue box of Mount Saint Helens that is alternating in blue and green and a little bit of lime, yellow Europe, ripping a tissue out of the Caldera

3-D printed tissue box cover erupting Kleenex out of the summit of Mount Rainier/Tacoma. The box is in stripy blue green and yellow colors.

3-D printed tissue box cover erupting Kleenex out of the summit of Mount Adams/Pahto. The box is in stripy blue green and yellow colors.

3-D printed tissue box cover erupting Kleenex out of the summit of Mt Baker/Kweq Smanit. The box is in stripy blue green and yellow colors.

Hey there Seattle fans! Your tears of joy this afternoon could be blotted up by tissues erupted out of 3D printed tissue box covers in the shape of your state’s volcanoes! In Seahawk InSAR no less! Only 10 available in my Etsy store and they’ll likely be gone before kickoff!
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At least give us time to build curriculum and collaborate. Most of our PD time is dedicated to district flavors of the month or Data analysis which is pretty useless when everyone is using/making different materials

Every year I get assigned a new prep (this year forensics w no curriculum) it becomes a retreat-to-the-desk year since there’s no additional planning time.

I’ll have to tell him that in my best Werner Herzog voice haha

5 year-old: How can we get jobs for people living in tents and help them have homes?

3 Year-old: WHAT DOES LAVA TASTE LIKE

A whole class set?? That’s wild. Also reminds me of the old days where purchasing a curriculum came with materials. Now everything is half-baked content that is a subscription model with no physical materials 😫

I may have overfilled the instant pot #iteachphysics

This week I was digging through our science storage and dusted off a ripple tank. Got excited to use it for our waves unit.

Man, it was so janky. Leaky, power supply was inconsistent. Rubber bands holding bar with motor so not a consistent frequency. Ended up just using a pipette 😅 #iteachphysics

Day 100! Wave quiz docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Day 99 reviewed wave characteristics docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Day 97 + 98 focused on how deaf/hearing impaired people may “feel” music docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Day 95 + 96 broke out sound simulations and tuning forks docs.google.com/document/d/1...

How am I Hearing You How am I Hearing You? Content Objective: I will be able to model how _________ travels from mouth to _______. Language Objective: I will build a visual model showing how sound is generated, travels, ...

Day 94 did page 2 of docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Catching up on Physical Science, been working on our Waves & Astro unit with the phenomenon how do I see from 1 m away, 1 km, 1 AU, 1 LY #iteachphysics #teach180 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Day 100! Physics - Circuit and Ohm’s Law quiz. #iteachphysics #teach180 docs.google.com/document/d/1...