Category: science
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Talking Science Podcasts
After many weeks of discussions and planning, my 8 year old son and I have formally launched a new collaborative podcasting project we have titled, “Talking Science.” The idea here is pretty simple and powerful: Invite students from around the world to contribute short podcasts in which they ask questions they have about different scientific…
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Invite Nobel Prize winners to your classroom
The October 6, 2006 Science Friday podcast featured interviews with two of the most recent (2006) Nobel Prize winners in science. Winners interviewed included: Astrophysicists George Smoot and John Mather, the 2006 Nobel Laureates in Physics David Bushnell of the Stanford University School of Medicine Andrew Fire, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology…
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Hydrogen car of the future
“Hy-wire” is the name of the General Motors car of the future: entirely powered by hydrogen energy. Amazing! Too bad they are not yet available for ordering. In a few years….. Thanks to Clara Ward for this link! 🙂
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Podcast84: Inertia, Teaching and Change
Physics professor Lou Bloomfield defines mass as how hard something is to shake, and observes that human beings generally go through life trying to avoid momentum transfers. This podcast includes several reflections on these ideas as they relate to the contexts of school reform and educational change. Program Length: 20 min, 01 sec File size:…
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Check out new podcasting opportunities!
I am enthused to have learned yesterday and today about two new podcasting collaborative project and contest opportunities for students. The first came from Maria Henderson, who told me about Dan Schmidt’s new “Where in the World? A global geography podcasting quiz!” project. According to the announcement flyer, the shows are: created by students from…
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Lots of Orca Videos!
One of the favorite bedtime books of my daughters and I is “O Is for Orca”, which is an alphabet book about animals in the Pacific Northwest that I bought in Seattle several years ago when I was there for NECC. This evening my youngest and I were reading a related book she recently got…
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Curing Nature Deficit Disorder
Milton Chen has a great article in the latest EduTopia titled, “Curing Nature Deficit Disorder.” Like Milton, my wife read the book “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder†by Richard Louv, the same book that inspired him to write this new article. I have written on this topic myself several…
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Great planet image
According to astronomers at MIT, Pluto is a planet (there has been some debate about this of late in the scientific community)– and there are even more planets beyond Pluto! Although this image is not scaled for the distance between planets in our solar system, it does appear to be reasonably scaled for planetary size,…
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Working toward oil independence
“Set America Free” is an organization with diverse membership focused on reducing and eventually eliminating U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. I cannot think of another scientific and technological innovation that could have more impact on geopolitics as well as economics around the globe than this initiative. One of the reasons I am trying to help…
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Tune in to the Shuttle launch!
NASA is planning to launch the space shuttle Discovery this Saturday, July 1st, and lots of live coverage is being provided via the web. A full schedule of coverage, which includes NASA TV broadcasts via the Internet, is available as a PDF file. Thanks to Dr. Gerald Knezek for this tip!