While they were off at Scout Camp, I did lesson planning for my Fall high school science class. I am on a 4 year cycle: Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, and... Well, four years ago I actually skipped a year!
The original plan was to do Physics,but I wasn't able to figure out how to do a "real" high school level Physics without a fair amount of math, and my actual students range from freshmen to seniors (actually have a couple of 8th graders right now, also), presumably with a wide range of mathematical abilities.
I loved Physics! But I took it in college, not in high school. My fourth (optional) year of high school science was a very fun survey course covering four different branches of science. I loved that class! So I am doing Astronomy, Geology, Oceanography/Marine Biology, and Genetics.
Somewhere in the middle of planning the classes I realized: this is actually just a class about everything I personally am fascinated with.
Yes, it does seem shamefully self indulgent to do a two hour class on cephalopods, but I think they are amazing!! I mean, giant squid!!!
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