Response Time
You should get a response within 24 hours, usually much sooner than that, and sometimes almost immediate feedback can be expected. We invite multiple answers, perspectives, angles on each question and expect to have a lively discussion of some topics where distinctions and definitions are ambiguous or unclear.
Questions Community
This is not a place for a discussion of ethical issues, except as to how to present such issues in the classroom. This is also not a place for high school teachers whose questions and needs are different from those of the middle school teacher, some of whom have science degrees and some who do not. Questions should largely be geared toward helping you the teacher understand a concept from the science standards in order to help your student reach the standards. Questions and answers should be as conceptual as possible, ie, let's not get into a lot of mathematical formulas (obviously there are cases where math is not only unavoidable but enlightening as well). First, middle school students will have a hard time with a mathematical understanding of scientific phenomena, and second, it's difficult to present mathematical formulas in this forum unless they are quite simple.
Finally, please spread the word to your colleagues to use this forum. We are a community of educators pooling our knowledge and experience to help one another. The more voices we hear the more valuable the discussions will be. There are no "official experts" on this forum. If you or someone you know, however, has a particular area of interest, we encourage you to post answers to questions as a regular contributors.
How this System Works
This bboard software was written by Philip Greenspun and hosted for free by him started in 1995.
Anyone could come in and create a forum and moderate the discussion. Most of the thousands of
forums on this server were and are publicly searchable by Google and other Web indices.