My students fondly call me Dan, Dan the Science Man, Spec.Ed. Science Coordinator, Turner Wiley Teacher of Year. Science as vehicle to student success & esteem
Northern NJ
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ALT 8 ways a child's anxiety shows up as something else. 1. Anger: The perception of danger, stress or opposition is enough to trigger the fight or flight response leaving your child angry and without a way to communicate why. 2. Difficulty sleeping: In children, having difficulty falling asleep or staying awake is one of the hallmark characteristics of anxiety. 3. Defiance: Unable to communicate what is really going on, it is easy to interpret the child's defiance as a lack of discipline instead of an attempt to control a situation where they feel anxious and helpless. 4. Chandeliering: when a seemingly calm person suddenly flies off the handle for no reason. They have pushed hurt and anxiety so deep for so long that a seemingly innocent comment or event suddenly sends them straight through the chandelier. 5. Lack of Focus: 6. Avoidance. 7. Negativity: People with anxiety tend to experience negative thoughts at a much greater intensity than positive ones. 8. Overplanning.
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Looking for a new way to engage students? Join us for the next Teach With Fortnite Creative Workshop on 4/17! Middle & high school educators will receive tools to use @FNCreate in the classroom and create powerful digital spaces.
RSVP now 👉 bit.ly/TeachWFortnite-417
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Educators: Join us for our next Teach with Fortnite Creative workshop as part of @EpicGames partnership with @G4C Saturday, April 17 1:00 - 5:30 pm ET - FREE!!!
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Here's a lesson plan I wrote to have students create a @RubeGoldberg machine in @FNCreate - kids love it and it gets into science, simple machines, engineering, etc. unrealengine.com/en-US/lesso…
I know that a lot of parents feel like @FortniteGame is an opponent they need to fight, but if Epic made a Fortnite-themed Engineering Game that borrowed some of the building mechanics then there are a lot of parents that would begin to see it as more of an ally. 8/?
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I love rocks. Look at these right next to my wheel. Are they volcanic or sedimentary? What story do they tell? Can’t wait to find out.
#CountdownToMars
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020
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An open horizon, with so much to explore. Can’t wait to get going.
#CountdownToMars
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I'm discussing “Gaming the System / Morning Coffee” with @washburntwitch. Wednesday, Feb 10 at 7:30 AM EST on @joinclubhouse. Join us! joinclubhouse.com/event/myK0… join us on Wednesday mornings!
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In August we launched Minecraft: Education Edition on #Chromebooks. Now, we’re excited to announce that students can log in to #MinecraftEdu directly through their school-issued #GoogleEdu accounts. Learn how: goo.gle/2UYiFiA @PlayCraftLearn
ALT Google for Education logo and Minecraft logo with laptop drawing in between them
Dan Curcio retweeted
He's using the American military against the American people.
He tear-gassed peaceful protesters and fired rubber bullets.
For a photo.
For our children, for the very soul of our country, we must defeat him. But I mean it when I say this: we can only do it together.
Police in Washington, D.C. used tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protesters to clear them away from St. John's church, which suffered a small fire Sunday night, near the White House.
President Trump then walked to the church for a photo op. trib.al/XNZfS1U
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Trump just had peaceful demonstrators viciously attacked. No, Mr. President. This is not a dictatorship. This is the United States of America. Our citizens have a constitutional right to peacefully protest. It's called the First Amendment.
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To all New Jerseyans – I deeply appreciate your cooperation with our efforts to promote social distancing. I know it’s not easy being cooped-up in the house, but this what we all need to get through this together.
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This is great news. I don't know exactly which hospitals are most in need, but my understanding is NYC and Seattle hospitals are in acute danger. If you're a hospital with a ventilator shortage or someone in a position to compile a list, please let @elonmusk and me know here.
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Since resentment, anger, and animosity bring us no benefit, it is clearly in our own interest to underpin our attitude to all others with a kind of genuine unconditional and unbiased compassion. And doing so will certainly bring us benefits.
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Anger and aggression sometimes seem to be protective because they bring energy to bear on a particular situation, but that energy is blind. It takes a calm mind to be able to consider things from different angles and points of view.
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Compassion enhances our self-confidence because a calm mind allows our marvellous human intelligence to bloom. When we’re angry, our thinking is distorted and we don’t see the different aspects of reality. A calm mind enables us to take a broader, more realistic view.
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Developing compassion you feel much happier within—more calm, more peaceful—and other people respond to that. Through anger, real peace, friendship, and trust are impossible, but through love we can develop understanding, unity, friendship, and harmony — this is valuable.
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Supporting humanitarian scientific research is important to me. That's why I donated 39 days of my computer's processing time to @WCGrid last week. Join me! autotweet.worldcommunitygrid…