I am teaching in Chengdu, China on a teacher exchange program between Phoenix Country Day School and the Chengdu Experimental Foreign Languages School.
The first picture is the work in action and in the second they are preparing to hang the project on the wall. A picture of the completed project is coming soon.
posted by J. Bob @ 1:36 AM
I teach 5th grade science and mathematics at Phoenix Country Day School in Paradise Valley, AZ. There is a link to my school below. I have a M.S. in Geology from Idaho State University and have worked as a mudlogger in Wyoming and as a surveyor for the United States Forest Service in Idaho. For the past 23 years I have taught in Idaho, Kuwait, Korea, Myanmar, and Phoenix. My hobbies are rock hounding, reading, and traveling. I enjoy taking my students mineral collecting on the weekend. Our most recent trip was to collect mica near Cleator, AZ. We found huge books of mica in a pegmatite. My wife Dell and I have four daughters and six grandchildren. My favorite vacation was to the Grand Canyon where I rafted the Colorado River from Lee’s Ferry to Diamond Creek. My favorite sport is football and my favorite food is Asian.
2 Comments:
At 11:28 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hey J Bob,
Looks like you've opened your Chinese School of Rock! The blog is great and your students look terrific. Went to the ANDRILL meeting last week and used your nannofossil activity as the sample, since there were two others there who knew you -- LuAnn and a teacher from PCDS! Everywher I go, someone asks, "Do you know J Bob?"
Also looks like you're ready for ocean sediment samples. Let us know and we'll send them over!
From sunny D.C.,
Leslie
At 6:43 PM,
J. Bob said…
Hi Leslie,
I won't need any samples here in china but I am going to meet with Xianghui Li (Sean) of the CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. He sailed on the Joides Resolution mission that drilled the deep-water carbonate mounds off the coast of Ireland. He is going to talk to me about the results of his study and show me around campus. I brought him posters and a calendar from IODP. Perhaps I can persuade him to come talk to my students.
J. Bob
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