How to Manage the Hour Study Hall | The Biology Corner

by smuskopf

    The day arrived when the students showed up and I headed down to the study hall room,  this room had 110 empty desks when I walked in.    I dropped my stuff off at the front desk and watched as about 140 students showed up to study hall.   I couldn’t figure out why he was so worried, I’d had study halls before, every teacher gets a half hour lunch study to supervise.   All the chairs were full and the students were lining up around the outside of the wall, it was right about here that panic started to set in.    Schedules were eventually fixed and I ended up having only about 90 students in that study hall but...   When I arrived to school that August I found something unusual on my schedule,  something unexpected: an hour study hall.   The things that went wrong that first year I have corrected and now I actually do get projects done in study hall, but you must approach the whole thing in a way you probably wouldn’t do in a regular education class. How to Manage the Hour Study Hall In 1998, I was still a new teacher but I’d had a couple of years behind me and was just getting the hang of organizing lesson plans, keeping the class focused and not burying myself under a pile of homework.    I didn’t think much about it until my department head strolled into my room with a somewhat apologetic look on his face, and proceeded to explain how I was the only one with the right timing to take the study hall.   I have younger teachers, looking as frazzled as I was that first year , ask me how I do it.    So, here goes…some basic guidelines for surviving the hour study. Years later, I have hour study halls now and then but they aren’t that bad now.   We aren’t trained to deal with 90 kids all crammed in one room with nothing to do.   No one is trained for that, except maybe prison guards.    In fact, I was rather looking forward to having a whole hour, imagine the things I could get done, papers graded, plans made, I could even get to revising all those old worksheets.   I was frazzled every day at the end of that hour and really never wanted another one of those duties ever again.   Patrol the classroom, walk up and down the aisles watching for anyone that is not sitting forward or working on something.    What I’ve learned, I’ve learned by trial and error.   The students were unruly, they talked, they threw stuff, some would randomly switch seats when I wasn’t looking.    Don’t sit the first couple of weeks.   Do not expect to get anything done that first couple of weeks.   If their eyes are furtively glancing around or looking at you – that means they’re up to something....

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What does a H with a little 3 in the top right corner mean in biology?

Sep 30, 2008 by Emily | Posted in Biology

a. it has 3 protons
b. it has 3 neutrons
c. it has 3 electrons
d. it has one proton and two neutrons
e. it has two protons and one neutron
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D. Its atomic mass is 3, and hydrogen has one proton. Thus, it has two neutrons. This is a rare form of hydrogen called tritium.

Biology corner..........Plz help?

Sep 02, 2010 by PaRiKrAmA | Posted in Biology

i have been asked to make a biology project(blue print) on any topic.Plz help me in deciding which topic to choose. And plz suggest how should i make my project, how should i write it, what should i include, how should i make it more attractive. plz suggest

I suggest you to make a project on "study of cells or tissues" or about "Life processes". Because you can collect HUGE information about these two topics. You can include many diagrams in your project to make it attractive. If you