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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I know I married the right guy because it’s a 3-day weekend and we’re trash talking how the default Google Slides dark layout is dark gray instead of black. 🖤

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Mine are done with different colors for each handout so I can be like “get out the yellow lab sheet” or whatever. Color coding is great.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Organizing these lab computers might be the most visually pleasing thing I have ever done 🌈 #EduSky

Rainbow of color coded laptops on a charging cart

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

A plaid shirt from one of my favorite games 😅

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Best thing about getting married in 2024 is saying my husband could get me the ✨most perfect gift✨

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

You too! I was sorry to hear of your dad’s passing. I don’t think we ever met but I met your dad a few times and visited your parents in CT one time and Christmas cards/letters are a staple of my family (except for me)

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

@drewmagary.bsky.social Hey. 👋 Your dad was my dad’s cousin with the same name and we are the SF branch of the Magary family, who are admirers of your writing. If you’re ever in SF for work (idk if SFGate makes you travel to the west coast) feel free to reach out.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I also have purple for AP1. Orange for Physics. The students have their own in another color so it’s easy to tell for tests if they are using the right one. I am mildly obsessive about my handout colors too. “The bright blue handout” (guide to linearization) is the one I refer most to.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Let's think about the disparity of education resources in this country: Which kids are going to get an AI tutor and which kids are going to get a teacher?

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I’m still working on it! Got a little delayed in December

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

@pnwphysics.bsky.social I liked your Vernier sensor applications article! The carseat experiment was great! #ITeachPhysics

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The rumor mill continues to run wild. Just had this exchange: S: I didn't wear my nicest clothes in my video, but if I change into them for class can I get the extra credit bonus for wearing a suit? Me: 😐

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

and just like an inverse curve, a lot of the disbelief goes down between x=0 and x=1 😅

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It's now 2024 and I had three boys ask if we were doing anything after AP testing and if not, could I shave their heads in class? This also started an unfounded rumor today that students could get a haircut in their final project for extra credit. 🤔

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

In 2013 after 2 homeroom students finished taking a state test, one of them, a freshman who was an aspiring barber, pulled out his whole haircut set and was about to set up in the corner (while other students finished) just because it was not SPECIFICALLY on the "no talking, no electronics" list 💈

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I suppose the sign you've been a teacher for a while is when the weird things that have happened to you before happen again. Like it is now 2x in my career that I have had to tell students "no haircuts in class after standardized testing" 🤷‍♀️ #EduSky

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

SF Bay Area folks, we are getting ready for our December performances. We do fun physics demos for kids! Get your tickets at www.thephysicsshow.com Our proceeds go to supporting science outreach for Title 1 ("free lunch") schools. Tell your friends!

People setting up a prop on a performance stage.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

We did this as our first energy/work lab in AP 1 last spring. I used bottle caps (the plastic kind) and it worked really well!

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I do not recommend going to school recovering from food poisoning, not even for one period. But my student made me these #iteachphysics cookies (there’s a density one below) and it’s so cute. I just wish I could eat them. 🥺

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 12/12/2024

Bsky team were planning for "future owner is an adversary" not recognising that "current owners are one Peter Thiel phonecall from being an adversary" also should have been a risk on the table.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Need to ask ChatGPT for a response with grace to this request.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

If I don’t put a due date on something on Canvas, it might as well not exist for my students. So why am I getting an email asking for a letter of rec by 10pm tonight because the student forgot to add me as a recommender (on Naviance) until now? 😔

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Dan Burns @the-physics-well.net · 09/12/2024

Join us Wednesday, 12/11, at 5:00 PM PST for the Physics with Phones @Home free online workshop. LLNL scientist Dave Rakestraw and I investigate rotation. Intended for HS and college intro physics teachers. Zoom link and more info can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1s1BF... #ITeachPhysics

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

6.022x10^23x10=6.022×10^24. Now you’re just moving the decimal place one more over. 🫠

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I carpooled with math teachers for 80 miles/day while I was getting my credential. They thought everything I had to do as a physics teacher was cringey in some way. It’s baffling to me because this is like…most of where students are using HS math outside of math class.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

That was actually pretty similar to the science teacher explanation I was going to give with scientific notation that I was sure was going to make a math teacher mad if I posted it 😅

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

My starter died 😭 but I might get some from our culinary teacher and start again

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The only good thing to come from the Bad Times in was massive amounts of bread. As a 6th gen San Franciscan, it was finally my time. 🥖

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I liberally subscribed to block lists and he has an AI avatar of his goblin D&D character from our shared campaign 🤦‍♀️

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Pretty sure a lot of my followers are bots but I’m too lazy to figure out which ones and I don’t want another incident like the one two weeks ago where I accidentally blocked my husband.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Iirc that is the computer Dan had signed by Steve Wozniak

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Do you have something at the base to give it more mass or is the pipe hollow?

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

LOL charts are S-tier because energy problem-solving is completely pointless if you don’t recognize the flow of energy first. You will just introduce a ton of variables that aren’t needed, negating the purpose of using energy to begin with. Not to mention wide applications outside physics.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

For an algebra-based physics class, I always fall back on, does this representation help students who struggle with something. If it’s no better than, or actively more confusing than a standard diagram/algebraic method, what’s the point?

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I understand how the area is supposed to visually work, I just can’t get them to be more trouble than they’re worth with students. Especially adding areas is very non-intuitive and doesn’t work visually.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/12/2024

Seismologists xkcd.com/3021

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This is something that feels modphys-adjacent even though it’s from the CB. Sorry, didn’t see the original tag.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Momentum bar graphs are a C tier for me. They don’t add anything that can’t be shown with vectors. These though? Are F-tier in practice. I understand why they should work as a tool.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Totally understandable! Most physics teachers (including myself) don’t have physics degrees and need PD to really understand how the concepts fit together with the labs. It’s a subject that is otherwise easy to put disconnected pieces of without deep understanding.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

There’s distance learning workshops too but I recommend in person if you have a non-physics background and want to do the labs

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

AMTA Modeling Mechanics, Physics First or Middle School depending on what you want to get out of it. www.modelinginstruction.org/2025-worksho... #modphys

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2025 Summer Workshops by Discipline – updated frequently – American Modeling Teachers Association

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Help I’m doing an angle-of-sunlight lab on Tuesday (reason for the seasons) and yesterday I couldn’t find the special non-reflective protractors I made for this. Anyone have a good setup for use with light sensors? #iTeachPhysics

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Perfect launching point (no pun intended) for orbital motion/free fall discussion tomorrow #ITeachPhysics

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Like I think the current seniors may be in my top 2 classes of all time in terms of niceness. They deadass think they planned my wedding. It changed my mind on professional distance. I was never against sharing details for other people, just for me. I don’t think there’s a formula for it though.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I spent 12 years trying to build relationships with students while keeping my own cards close to my chest because I guess I’m just reserved. That broke last year when a year ago I came back from Thanksgiving engaged and everyone wanted to know the details all year.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

One time a student told me they couldn’t walk normally anymore 5 months after our discussion in Newton’s 3rd Law where I made them think about how to walk and that was when I knew I had made it.

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Ms. Magary Physics @msmagaryphysics.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The best thing a student can possibly tell me is that they can't stop thinking about physics. #iTeachPhysics "I lie awake on my mattress thinking about Hooke's Law." YES. 💤 "I helped my gym buddies using torque" YES.🏋️ "I brake before curves now." THIS IS ACTUALLY THE GOAL. 🚗

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