Mr. Malvik

Crotch-gate: The biggest controversy heading into the Winter Olympics involves … ski jumping? Ski jumping has been pushed into the spotlight after a whistleblower uncovered a cheating scandal that involves, of all things, crotch manipulation.

Ok #ITeachPhysics peeps. How do you even talk about this aerodynamics lesson to a bunch of teenagers? 🤣🤣https://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/article/crotch-gate-the-biggest-controversy-heading-into-the-winter-olympics-involves--ski-jumping-003557536.html

Tinker says Merry Christmas!

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LET US BEGIN THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES. HAPPY FESTIVUS TO ALL!

So much for “states’ rights.” The Illinois state legislature passed a law (signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in early December) that limits federal immigration enforcement by preventing immigration officers from making arrests outside courthouses and

DOJ sues Gov. JB Pritzker, AG Kwame Raoul over law protecting immigrants at courthouses, hospitals The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Governor JB Pritzker and Attorney General Kwame Raoul over an Illinois low that aims to project immigrants at courthouses, hospitals and daycare c...

making it easier for Illinois residents to sue immigration agents if they believe their rights were violated. The Justice Department sued the governor and attorney general in an effort to strike the law down. States should have the authority to enforce their own laws.

My takeaway from first semester…it has taken less than 5 years for people to forget what we learned the purpose of in-person school was during the pandemic. Keep pushing your transactional, job-preparation, GPA, test score narratives and we’ll just keep watching people forget how to be people.

Project Daily Agenda Use this outline to structure your daily log. Your log not only needs to document what you did that day, but also why you have chosen to do these things for your project. Pictures, measurements, calcu...

#Iteachphysics Daily agenda for the project this year. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Planning and Strategy Worksheet As a group, investigate the playing field and remember the following rules: Your platform must fit in the 1 ft diameter area blocked off by black tape in the center of the field. It may not have any ...

#Iteachphysics docs.google.com/document/d/1...

For anyone that is interested in the rules. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

The endowment fund also let me purchase a scroll saw for the physics shop, so 1/8” basswood became the preferred platform material.

Some more designs for the 2025 Presidential Merry-Go-Round Contest. Which one is your favorite? #ITeachPhysics

Some more designs for the 2025 Presidential Merry-Go-Round Contest. #ITeachPhysics

This year’s classes got into the aesthetics way more than last year! #ITeachPhysics

House Project 2026 #ITeachPhysics
Some of the entries so far

I’m not sure how effective districts are at implementing such systems, which usually involve opportunities for retakes and abundantly more work for teachers giving feedback and reassessment on summative exams.

From what I understand, Grading for Equity advocates for not placing formative assessments in a mastery-based grading system. Not grading homework/formative assessments doesn’t mean there aren’t regular tests, it just means summative assessments are only ones formally reported on a grade.

Elementary students have an ungodly amount of tech time and lack of productive struggle and free play. My hypothesis is this is tech driven, not grade reporting driven. Free play gives confidence in independent problem solving at young ages.

Worked out solutions always at their finger tips. No coincidence that I have minimal students come ask me for help on really tough HW problems anymore. Often students wait out assignments in class to do it at home, where AI/teach begins to undercut time thinking/processing(no long term retention).

26 yrs since I was in HS and my math homework wasn’t graded in HS most of the time, nor was it a significant portion of my grade. I think it’s pretty common for math teachers in higher level math to treat HW this way. The focus on grades as being the causal mechanism for this seems misguided.

#ITeachPhysics “ low kinetic friction between ice and numerous counterbodies is commonly attributed to an interfacial water layer… induced by high contact pressures or frictional heat. However, even the currently leading theory of frictional melting appears to defy direct experimental verification.”

“I’m just not ever going to use this” is the beginning of the story of regret…or just no story at all…

Just live in this moment and try to learn, dammit.

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

#ITeachPhysics Is the practice of mental imagery helpful to learning physics? I have renamed my Physics 1 lectures, “How to draw good” bc I hypothesize that reading word problems often doesn’t form a helpful mental image. Am I right? who knows? But the students laugh at my stick figure masterpieces.

a student handed me a paper bc I had our turn in folder in my bag. He asked me if it was OK, and I made a deal with him that if it didn’t make it to the folder he would get 💯. He correctly stated, “If you even remember this conversation happened.” 🤣🤣 I now have two turn-in folders for rotation.

Bernoulli’s Symphony

Every year we go into contract negotiations I wonder how teacher’s salaries will survive this healthcare crisis and I ask my wife if we can just move to Canada, or Norway, or Japan, or Sweden, or UK, or Finland, or Australia, or New Zealand, or France, or Taiwan, or Germany, or…#HealthCareisaRight

Pitch was recorded at 96mph

I did some research. Pitch was 96mph. Ball approximately 145g. I think his bat is 33.5 in long and 31.5 oz(about 900g).

Pitch was recorded at 96mph.

For any #Iteachphysics people wondering. I believe his bat is 33.5 inches long and 31.5 oz. Ball mass is about 145grams.