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Skin color, melanin, and students' misconceptions about it all during a presentation on soil

Tough class today. It wasn’t just that we got off-topic (which we did). It was that I felt like I was battling some real and serious misconceptions about life, the universe, and everything while I was working with the students. One of the students asked the question, “I was looking up some stuff online and…

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Learning and Curiosity, where did it go and how do we get it back?

Today, I learned a valuable lesson. I presented at a local high school with a math class. We were working on the Pythagorean Theorem and why it is important to be able to use it. I used the approach of satellite imagery and how satellite image pixels of land cover can be ground truth-ed by…