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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: What's Your Story? (podcast)

Running Time:
00:08:53

A story can help make a subject come alive for your students. TI teacher coach Carol Murphy talks about the myriad ways she’s used storytelling in her science classes.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: April 29, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips: Tough Times (podcast)

Running Time:
00:07:13

A veteran teacher describes his first year teaching in a tough school district. This episode is one of several “first-year” stories from people in a difficult profession.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: April 22, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Ice Stories: Smashcast Interviews Polar Scientists (clip)

Running Time:
00:06:37

Smashcast visited the Exploratorium on Saturday, April 18th, to work on the Ice Stories project and meet four Antarctic scientists.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: April 22, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,

Science Teaching Tips: We Won Best Professional Development Podcast! (podcast)

Running Time:
00:13:10

Hear an interview with our host, Stephanie Chasteen, about why podcasts can be great professional development tools for teachers. The interview is excerpted from an episode of the Podcast for Teachers, which gave us the award for Best Professional Development Podcast.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: April 15, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips: Classroom Management (podcast)

Running Time:
00:04:57

TI teacher coach Sandra Robbins talks about better classroom management styles.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: April 1, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips: Student Misconceptions (podcast)

Running Time:
00:04:35

TI staff educator Sandra Robbins touts the merits of a book that examines how to address student misconceptions in the science classroom. The book is Targeting Students’ Science Misconceptions: Physical Science Concepts Using the Conceptual Change Model by Joseph Stepans, published by the Idea Factory in 2003.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: March 25, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips: Name That Book (podcast)

Running Time:
00:04:01

TI staff educator Don Rathjen describes how making up joke book titles, such as Marine Biology by C. Star, is a useful teaching tool—and also one of his personal addictions.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: March 18, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips: Stem Cells (podcast)

Running Time:
00:03:28

TI postdoctoral fellow Julie Yu explains what a stem cell is and why they’re important.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: March 18, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): General Science

Science Teaching Tips: Sing a Song of Science (podcast)

Running Time:
00:08:43

TI teacher coach Rilla Chaney says she’s no singer, but she’s successfully used songs to teach science concepts in her classroom.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: March 18, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Art