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Science Teaching Tips: Minilabs (Podcast)
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TI teacher coach Zeke Kossover explains how he uses short, focused lab activities to really get concepts across to his students.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: March 17, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: lab, mini, short, activities
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Date: March 17, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: lab, mini, short, activities
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Science Teaching Tips: 'Hey, neat!' The Importance of Provocacion (Podcast)
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Do your lessons sometimes fall flat? Staff educator Modesto Tamez explains how to be a good salesperson and get students engaged.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: March 10, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: lessons, teaching, engaged
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Date: March 10, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: lessons, teaching, engaged
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Science Teaching Tips: The Drama of the Immune System (Podcast)
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Staff educator Tory Brady performs a bit of theater, demonstrating the roles of the star players in the immune system.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: March 3, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: theater, immune, system
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Date: March 3, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: theater, immune, system
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Science Teaching Tips: Seeing the Light (Podcast)
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Newton wasn’t really ready to believe that light was a wave, and so he didn’t see what was in front of his eyes. Staff physicist Paul Doherty tells how to do the same experiment that Newton did back in the 1650s to see the wave nature of light.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: February 24, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: light, wave, newton
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: February 24, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: light, wave, newton
| Links: | Paul Doherty’s Web site |
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Science Teaching Tips: Then You Measure It (Podcast)
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Put kids’ skepticism to work! Children’s book author David Schwartz explains how a class disagreed with the numbers in one of his math books, and set out to prove him wrong!
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: February 17, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: math, david, schwartz
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Date: February 17, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: math, david, schwartz
| Links: | David Schwartz’s Web site |
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Science Teaching Tips: Whack a Stack (Podcast)
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Exploratorium staff educator Don Rathjen makes some noise with this activity about Newton’s laws.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: February 10, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: newton, noise
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: February 10, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: newton, noise
| Links: | Whack-a-Stack activity | The Old Tablecloth Trick (related) | More of Don Rathjen’s activities |
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Science Teaching Tips: Running Hot and Cold (Podcast)
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Exploratorium staff physicist Thomas Humphrey explains what temperature and color have to do with one another.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: February 3, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: temperature, color
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: February 3, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: temperature, color
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Science Teaching Tips: Huh? (Podcast)
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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.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: January 27, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Chemistry
Keywords: chemistry, teacher, west, africa
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: January 27, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Chemistry
Keywords: chemistry, teacher, west, africa
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Science Teaching Tips: Nobody's Ever Taught You Anything (Podcast)
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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
Subject(s):
Keywords: teaching, students, learn, ideas
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Date: January 20, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: teaching, students, learn, ideas
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Science Teaching Tips: Whirled Music (Podcast)
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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.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: January 13, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: whirly, sound, music
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: January 13, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: whirly, sound, music
| Links: | The science of whirlies | Sounds like fun |
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