Richard Frazier, Ph.D.
2132 Lovinger
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Central Missouri State University
Warrensburg, MO 64093
660-543-8391
frazier@cmsu.edu
richard_frazier@hotmail.com
vita  (pdf)
Papers and presentations:

for pdf documents:

You don't need to time it, you just have to see: Racing in school science (pdf)

Are you saying this to get on our nerves, or are you really curious? (pdf)

A philosophical toy (web link) (cited in 02/01 Chem MattersTeacher's Guide)

The story of a nature trail for the visually impaired (pdf)

Science and service (pdf)

Planting ideas: Plant propagation as an integrating theme for botany, history and culture (pdf)

Exotic excursions in botany (short course for NSTA 2003 Philadelphia)
Selected images
(digital camera, video stills, scans)

Come, let us eat food (then)       Now

Blacksmith at Angkor Wat
Again with piston bellows

Treefrog-Missouri         Lichen-Missouri

Hydrogen spectrum    2-slit diffraction

In a garden in Naha, Chiapas
Lacandon man swinging in La Selva Lacandon

Nectar bat, Pulau Ubin, Singapore

Turban1 , Turban2 , Turban3 (Rajasthan)

Southern Pied Hornbill, P. Ubin, Singapore

Weaving Ketupat, Johor State, Malaysia

Raj Palace Hotel , Tigerhead , Hunt Table

Thaipusam in Singapore

Primate slides taken at the Singapore Zoo and donated to the AV collection at the Library of the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center (see Primate Info Net, too):
Mueller's gibbon from Borneo
Capuchin monkey
Lemur
Guenon
Duoc Langur (Viet Nam)
Poetry:

Substantiation (pdf)

Wintering in Missouri (pdf)

daun menari (pdf)

The Exorcist (pdf)

Election (pdf)

Australian Ecology (pdf)

Studying Symbiosis in the Forests of Singapore (pdf)

A Bowl of Weevils (pdf)

Sleights of the Tongue (pdf)

Short pieces (pdf)

On finding the ant plant Dischidia in an abandoned plantation forest in Singapore (pdf)

Presidential Debate (pdf)

A Bright Idea (pdf)

LOVEISNOWHERE (pdf)
Some links

Education (my A.B., M.S., and Ph.D.):
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

K-12 teaching posts:
Charleston R-1 Schools--Charleston, MO
Njala Komboya Secondary School--Sierra Leone
University of Illinois Laboratory High School (Urbana)
Dhahran Academy--Saudi Arabia
Singapore American School

International teaching resources:
International Schools Services
The International Educator
U of Northern Iowa Overseas Placement for Teachers
EARCOS , NESA , ECIS

Sites for my preservice and inservice work:
Warrensburg R-VI Schools--Ridge View Elementary
(Warrensburg, MO)
Lavalla School--Cambodia
Atsa Biyaazh (Shiprock Alternative Schools, Inc.)
(see Summer 2001)

Professional organizations:
NSTA , NARST , AERA

Peace Corps and Sierra Leone sites:
Official site
National Peace Corps Association
Peace Corps Online
Friends of Sierra Leone and Links
Slides taken by my brother on his trip to see us in 1977

Other:
Nature Society (Singapore)
Thomas Hart Benton Group, Ozark Chapter, Sierra Club
Galileo's Finger
(a favorite relic)
Rubber Jungle
(a fascinating website with video--the  politics and culture of economic botany)
Sorrow Home by Margaret Walker
(the seredipitous result of a search for 'breadfruit and rubber'--see paper on Breadfruit and rubber in the movies)
Topozone (online topographic maps)
Sir Joseph Banks' Papers at the State Library NSW
More links

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My course pages at courses.cmsu.edu (via Blackboard)

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