Where is she now? Ms. Vaughan the science teacher

When this site launched just over a year ago, I was one of two reporters. The other was Kelly Vaughan. In January, Kelly left GothamSchools to return to teaching, and this fall she has made her triumphant return to the Internet, with a blog for her sixth-grade science classes at the brand-new Brooklyn Prospect Charter School.

Last week, Kelly asked her students to apply what they had learned about simple machines to explain what Archimedes might have meant when he said, “Give me a place to stand on and I can lift the earth.” Could Archimedes actually use a lever to lift the earth? she asked. Here’s one of the 45 responses her students posted: