Hi
DrHanzonScience here - James P. Louviere, that is, according to my birth certificate 72 years ago.
I'm a pretty simple guy. I picture how I learned something, and see what I can do to set things up so a kid in my class (anyone less than 65 is a "kid" to, so I'm not trying to demean Ph.D. candidates or post-doc students, but I say "kids" beause if they have youthful curiosity, they'll be easier to teach, and if they know I'm semi-teacing when I call them kids, they'll smile and go along with my sometimes unusual or unimaginable process called setting up things" rather than "teaching."

I remember learning to ride a bike. It was my brother's bike, a full-sized bike for adults. No training wheels, no little kiddie bike. My training area wa a driveway we shared with the house next door. It was clay with hunks of broken concrete and old oyster shells packed into the clay, and occasional small patches of grass. It was not soft and chuncy gravel. It was hard dried clay embedded with the hunks of concrete. If I fell, my skin would be broken. I'd have pain and some blood. So I was highly motivated to learn quickly in order to stop the hurts.

I mastered bike riding fairly quickly, I guess. Notice I did not sit in one lecture about bike riding. Not one hand out, not one T-F test. No essay questions. Just practice. "Mindless rote drill" of pedaling, steering , correcting the course and coordinating the balance. That how some theorists would label this I call it Hanzon, but it might be called "holistic" or "WholeBody" science, too!

You probably have such memories as well. That should be the basis for teachng any of the basic sciences. Do the things that give you the "feel for what's happening." That's it for now. I'm going to write about integrating math and science next. Please comment on this lttle post now, before you click away. Was it useful? Did it help you understand what I mean by "hands on" (AKA HanzonScience - my Trade Mark kind of science teaching/science learning.) How can I improve this?
James P. Louviere, DrHanzonScience