Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips
Teacher Institute Teaching Tips is a bite-sized podcast for science teachers, by science teachers. In each five-minute episode, we give you hands-on activities, science facts, science history, pedagogy tips for new teachers, or other ideas for your science classroom.
Want to ask a science question of our experts, or share a teaching tip of your own? Please e-mail us at teachingtips@exploratorium.edu.
Next Podcast: February 10, 2010
Whack a Stack
Exploratorium staff educator Don Rathjen makes some noise with this activity about Newton’s laws.
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Date: February 3, 2010
Running Time: 00:05:20
Audio: Mono
Running Hot and Cold
Exploratorium staff physicist Thomas Humphrey explains what temperature and color have to do with one another.
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Date: January 27, 2010
Running Time: 00:04:40
Audio: Mono
Huh?
When this chemistry teacher entered her portable classroom as a new teacher, she was fresh from West Africa—and there was a lot she didn’t know.
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Date: January 20, 2010
Running Time: 00:05:51
Audio: Mono
Nobody's Ever Taught You Anything
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.
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Date: January 13, 2010
Running Time: 00:08:39
Audio: Mono
Whirled Music
Geeks have strange hobbies. Staff physicist Paul Doherty plays the corrugated plastic tube, also known as a “whirly,” and explains the surprising science behind the sound.
Links: | The science of whirlies | Sounds like fun |
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Date: January 6, 2010
Running Time: 00:08:42
Audio: Stereo
Hey Batter, Batter!
Exploratorium graphic artist David Barker describes the physics of baseball bats, and makes some sweet music in the process!
Links: | Exploratorium’s science of baseball |
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NISE: SmallTalk
SmallTalk is a podcast series where we chat about nanotechnology with leading scientists, thinkers, artists, writers, and visionaries, and look at quirky nanoscience stories in the news.
Teacher Institute Summer Institute
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