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Science Teaching Tips: Take It Outside (podcast)

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00:05:28

Sometimes kids don’t have much experience with nature. TI teacher coach Kim Marie Hansen recounts how she got her inner city students outside and observing the world by using nature journals.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: June 17, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips: Think Positive (podcast)

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00:03:53

Got a tough kid in your class? TI Staff Educator Modesto Tamez tells a story from his teaching career—explaining a powerful technique that has helped him win over the stubborn, negative students.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: June 10, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips: Marshmallow Puff Tube (podcast)

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00:09:29

Newton’s laws were never so tasty. Exploratorium staff educator Don Rathjen demonstrates concepts about force using a file folder and a marshmallow.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: June 3, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics

MAKE at the Exploratorium: Maker Faire Chain Reaction (webcast)

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00:13:23

The Exploratorium's Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) department is inviting the public to create components of a multi-step chain reaction at Bay Area Maker Faire, 2009. Watch live as each maker's machine sets off the next, culminating in a grand finale!

Project: MAKE at the Exploratorium | Browse All

Date: May 30, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art, Physics

MAKE at the Exploratorium: Maker Faire Chain Reaction 2 (webcast)

Running Time:
00:16:50

For the second time, the Exploratorium's Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) department is inviting the public to create components of a multi-step chain reaction at Bay Area Maker Faire, 2009. Watch live as each maker's machine sets off the next, culminating in a grand finale!

Project: MAKE at the Exploratorium | Browse All

Date: May 30, 2009
Format: Event
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art, Physics

Science Teaching Tips: Lucky Break (podcast)

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00:05:36

A lucky veteran teacher tells how she got started teaching in a supportive school and with help from her predecessor. This episode is one of several “first-year” stories from people in a difficult profession.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: May 27, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips: Through the Looking Glass (podcast)

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00:07:42

How big does a mirror have to be for you to see yourself in it? Exploratorium staff physicist Thomas Humphrey describes an activity you can use in your classroom to investigate simple optics.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: May 20, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics

Science Teaching Tips: The Hairs on My Head (podcast)

Running Time:
00:07:33

Children’s book author David Schwartz tells how big numbers got him excited about math when he was a kid.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: May 13, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips: To Coin a Phrase (podcast)

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00:05:59

TI staff educator Eric Muller hits me up for change, and then demonstrates a neat science activity using dry ice.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: May 6, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
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Reflections: Snow Mirror by Daniel Rozin (clip)

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00:01:59

Snow Mirror is the first in a series of pieces that celebrate slowness and black and white, in this piece the image of the viewer is created by the congregation and accumulation of white snow flakes in areas of the image that are brighter. The result is projected on a transparent silk fabric which creates a feeling of the flakes being suspended in space. Artist Daniel Rozin will be featured in the Exploratorium's 2009 exhibition, Reflections.

Project: Reflections | Browse All

Date: May 1, 2009
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Cognitive Science/Psychology, Art