From: "Mike Reynolds" <mike_reynolds_at_cec001-fa@cc.cranbrook.edu>
Subject: WW peer review
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 97 20:33:38 -0500
I just finished sending all the peer review responses back. We had
nine to complete since my three classes each sent in a proposal. I
had my mission directors solicit responses from the rest of the class.
I can't say they did a great job getting feedback but they did try
very hard to get their classmates to help. I have wonderful students
this year and when the pace slows down at our school they will do a
much better job in this program. I teach at a private school for boys
and we always seem to crush our poor students in the fall. They are
all out for sports, participating in school fund raising events,
community service, school open house and when they have spare time we
expect them to do some homework. It is amazing what our kids do in a
"typical" day.
We are sorry that we took so long to get the responses back. We will
try to do better in the future.
This is such a cool program. I tell every Math/science teacher I meet
about it. My students are soooo into it. I send them off
unsupervised to various computers around the building since my
classroom computer was killed by a virus. They come back with piles
of stuff.
We do "Mars Day" about once a week and the boys can't wait for that
day. My classroom walls are covered with stuff they find. The French
class also found an article in a French magazine and brought it in.
Right now we are constructing the solar system in the hallway. It
will be on a scale of one billionth the size. The boys were amazed to
see that the sun was over 2m in diameter and that Mercury was smaller
than a pea. They were shocked to see how far away from the sun
Mercury is.
Having a Blast....Mike