July 2007

What’s your Story?

July 30, 2007

I’ve just posted a new episode of my podcast, Science Teaching Tips geared at secondary schoool science teachers. In this episode, What’s Your Story? veteran science teacher Carol Murphy talks about how she uses storytelling in her science classes. Enjoy! These are produced through the Exploratorium’s Teacher Institute.

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Simpsonized!

July 30, 2007

I’ve been Simpsonized! Just wanted to add this for fun!

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Wikimedia commons

July 27, 2007

I just have to add a plug for an amazing resource, the Wikimedia Commons. I try to use open-source images on this blog, and this is where I get them. They’ve also been really valuable to us at the Exploratorium in terms of getting images that we don’t have to pay to use — it [...]

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Love letter to the Exploratorium

July 20, 2007

I want to point out a neat-o blog, Cocktail Party Physics by Jennifer Ouellette. This blog has a lot of prolific material about physics, and is very popular. She recently visited San Francisco and here is her post about the Exploratorium. That post concludes, “where everyone was encouraged to discover more about the topic at [...]

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Science of baseball

July 14, 2007

Hey baseball fans — the all-star game was just last week in San Francisco, so the Exploratorium did a whole bunch on the science of baseball. Fun stuff. How does a curveball work, and what makes a sinker? Here are some links: KQED Quest show on baseball (about 20 minutes) including our Teacher Institute director [...]

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Interview on Podcast for Teachers

July 10, 2007

My podcast Science Teaching Tips won an award a week or so ago, for Best Professional Development podcast, through the Podcast for Teachers. They just posted a very nice interview with me, which I included in a new post on Science Teaching Tips. I talk about why I started the podcast, and why I think [...]

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Make your own phonograph

July 6, 2007

I love this little activity… Have an old record but no record player? Here’s how you can listen to it. Take a record and stick a pencil through the hole in the middle so it’s pretty close to the point of the pencil. That’s your turntable. Now take a piece of paper and roll it [...]

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