Seminar Helps Math, Science Teachers Teach

I must admit, most of the lectures were over my head, but in talking to the 100 or so math and science teachers at the North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership seminar, where teachers such as these have been swapping ideas and learning new ones for the last four years.

But I'll tell you more about the conference, which was also put on by the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession, tomorrow. Just one tip for now. The teacher next to me had a book called "Science Matters" by Robert Hazen and James Trefil.

I simply couldn't put it down.

Want to know how much water is on this Earth? (500 billion, billion gallons). Only 1 percent of which is fresh.

Want to know how a star is born? Or dies? Or how about the Bohr Atom, which diappears and magically reappears in another orbit? All these answers are told in graceful English. Not a bit of educationese or acronym nonsense in the book. Go buy it.