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Science Teaching Tips:  Nobody's Ever Taught You Anything (podcast)
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00:05:51
Nobody can really teach you anything—rather, you have to learn it for yourself. So how can you help your students understand science? TI staff educator Modesto Tamez shares some thoughts about helping students make ideas their own.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: January 20, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips:  A Tale of Adjustment (podcast)
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00:04:38
A veteran teacher describes his first year of teaching, and the myriad things he adjusted to while he learned the profession he loves.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: November 4, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips:  When Words Fail You (podcast)
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00:04:55
How do you give your students the words they need to understand an activity or a topic? TI Staff Educator Modesto Tamez explains his opinion that vocabulary is best given towards the end of a lesson, not at the beginning.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: October 14, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips:  The Teaching Box (podcast)
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00:07:59
Staff educator Tory Brady tells you how to make a teaching box—a valuable tool for getting yourself organized to teach a great science unit.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: September 23, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Science Teaching Tips:  Survival Guide (podcast)
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00:07:21
It’s tough for a new teacher to keep up with everything from labs to professional development. TI teacher coach Arlette Manders provides a potpourri of tips on how to make life a little easier.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: July 29, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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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:  What's Your Story? (podcast)
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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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SmallTalk:  Vroom! Nanocars and Nanofactories (podcast)
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00:28:20
Dr. Jim Tour, a chemist at Rice University, builds the world’s smallest vehicles. He calls them “nanocars,” and he thinks these tiny vehicles might lead to nano-sized factories. We’ll also hear from University of Florida graduate student Diane Hickey, who will tell us some of the interesting reactions she’s run into when explaining nanotechnology.

Project: NISE: SmallTalk | Browse All

Date: February 15, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Nanotechnology, Physics
Iron Science Teacher:  Potatoes (webcast)
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01:04:45
Watch as Exploratorium staff and local teachers compete for the title of Iron Science Teacher. Each contestant has ten minutes to make a science lesson out of a secret ingredient. Today's secret ingredient-potatoes!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 22, 2005
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics
Iron Science Teacher:  Valentine's Day Edition 2005 (webcast)
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1:00:11
Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week's "secret" ingredient - Valentine gifts!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: February 11, 2005
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
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