Physics is all about matter and energy and includes mechanics, heat, light/radiation, sound, electricity, magnetism, and the structure of atoms.
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for these subjects can be found here.
In a sense, it's who I am and what I do. I was always the kid who couldn't stop trying to figure out how everything worked, but that curiosity never went away for me. I also could never get enough of sharing my discoveries. Put those together, and I guess this is what you get.
Today, I don't just try to talk my students to death, but I pursue ways for them to get inside science, to do science, and to BE scientists. There is no such thing as somebody who can't do science, and I hope to make that a reality for the kids who walk in my classroom doors.
Outside of teaching, I spend most of my time with my family, enjoying my tremendously patient wife and hoping irrationally that my daughter will both grow as fast as possible and also stay the same forever. When not with them, I'm either running, listening to podcasts (usually from NPR), or generally reveling in the world that Christ has made and helping reconcile people to Him.
My teaching site: www.jricescience.com
NAHS was established in 2004 in order to relieve overcrowding from nearby Cleveland, Monroe, John F. Kennedy, and Granada Hills Charter High schools in the north-central area of the San Fernando Valley. As such, we are a Zone of Choice school and, because of our small size (approximately 1000 students any given year) we have a relatively tight-knit, caring school community.
Chemistry is all about finding what things are made of, checking out their properties, seeing how they interact, combine, and change, and the using these processes to make new stuff.
I currently teach chemistry, physics, and occasionally AP Chemistry at Northridge Academy High School in Northridge, CA. I've taught previously at the Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology in East Los Angeles, the Amicitia American School of Fès, and Chinese Christian School in San Leandro, CA. I hold credentials in secondary chemistry and physics from CSUN as well as having earned my Bachelors of Science in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.
Starting in Fall of 2016, I embarked on my MA in Secondary Science Education at CSUN and have been compiling resources for teaching science in my own classroom that I'm also making available to the public. Considerable thanks go to Norm Herr and the team at the CSUN MA program for the aggregation of so much of this content ad for making it freely available to the public.