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Teacher Institute Teaching Tips: Scaling Up Barbie (Podcast)
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Size and scale can be difficult concepts to teach. TI staff educator Lori Lambertson talks us through one of her favorite activities, using one of her favorite dolls-Barbie.
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Date: June 2, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: size, scale, barbie
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Date: June 2, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: size, scale, barbie
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Teacher Institute Teaching Tips: Body Metrics (Podcast)
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Students really struggle with the metric system. TI staff educator Lori Lambertson tells us how she helps students get a handle on what the units really mean.
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Date: May 26, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: metric, system, teaching
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Date: May 26, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: metric, system, teaching
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Teacher Institute Teaching Tips: Let's Find Out! (Podcast)
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Teaching isn't just work, it's a lot of fun. Staff physicist Thomas Humphrey quickly figured out that he didn't have the answer to every question in the classroom-and that's the fun of it.
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Date: May 19, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: classroom, teaching, answer, question
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Date: May 19, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: classroom, teaching, answer, question
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Teacher Institute Teaching Tips: That's a Good Question (Podcast)
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TI staff biologist Karen Kalumuck describes how she tries not to answer every question that's asked during a class. Instead, she guides her students to discover ideas for themselves.
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Date: May 12, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: teaching, class, question, ask, answer
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Date: May 12, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: teaching, class, question, ask, answer
| Links: | Karen Kalumuck's Web site |
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Teacher Institute Teaching Tips: Teaching Abroad (Podcast)
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A veteran teacher describes her first year of teaching-in Guatamala. She faced many, many challenges, but she stuck it out and has been teaching for 20 years.
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Date: May 5, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: teaching, guatamala, challenges
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Date: May 5, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: teaching, guatamala, challenges
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Teacher Institute Teaching Tips: Revising the Rainbow (Podcast)
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What is indigo anyway? Staff physicist Paul Doherty tells the story behind ROYGBIV, and how he'd like to change that standard palette.
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Date: April 28, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: rainbow, color, roygbiv, indigo
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Date: April 28, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: rainbow, color, roygbiv, indigo
| Links: | Paul Doherty's Web site |
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Teacher Institute Teaching Tips: When the Moon Hits Your Eye (Podcast)
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What coin would just barely cover the full moon? You may be surprised. TI director (and recovering astrophysicist) Linda Shore explains how our brains distort the actual size of the moon.
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Date: April 21, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: moon, coin, size, astrophysics, brain
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Date: April 21, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: moon, coin, size, astrophysics, brain
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Teacher Institute Teaching Tips: Find That Sound (Podcast)
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Take a little sound quiz with our host, Stephanie Chasteen, and learn something about how our brains locate sounds.
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Date: April 14, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: sounds, brains
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Date: April 14, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: sounds, brains
| Links: | Stephanie Chasteen’s Web site | Find That Sound activity |
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Teacher Institute Teaching Tips: Follow the Bouncing Ball (Podcast)
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Have you ever really listened to a ball bounce? Exploratorium staff physicist Thomas Humphrey describes the elegant mathematics of a bouncing ball.
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Date: April 7, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: mathematics, bouncing, ball, physics
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Date: April 7, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: mathematics, bouncing, ball, physics
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Teacher Institute Teaching Tips: The Last Straw (Podcast)
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Despite my better judgment, I invite TI staff educator Eric Muller to do one more set of activities—several things you can do with soda straws.
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Date: March 24, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: activity, soda, straw, charge, holding
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Date: March 24, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: activity, soda, straw, charge, holding
| Links: | Holding Charge activity | More of Eric Muller’s activities |
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