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Science 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.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: May 26, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: metric, system, teaching
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: May 26, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: metric, system, teaching
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Science 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.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: May 19, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: classroom, teaching, answer, question
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: May 19, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: classroom, teaching, answer, question
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Science 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.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: May 12, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: teaching, class, question, ask, answer
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
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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Science 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.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: May 5, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: teaching, guatamala, challenges
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: May 5, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: teaching, guatamala, challenges
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Science 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.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: April 28, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: rainbow, color, roygbiv, indigo
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
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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Science 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.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: April 21, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: moon, coin, size, astrophysics, brain
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: April 21, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: moon, coin, size, astrophysics, brain
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Science 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.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: April 14, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: sounds, brains
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
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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Science 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.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: April 7, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: mathematics, bouncing, ball, physics
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: April 7, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: mathematics, bouncing, ball, physics
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Science 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.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: March 24, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: activity, soda, straw, charge, holding
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
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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Polynesian Navigation: The Dolphins (Clip)
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Sea life can sometimes serve as a marker to help navigators stay on track. Shorty Bertelmann describes how one such living marker, a pod of dolphins, helped him see what navigation is really about.
Project: Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation | Browse All
Date: March 23, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, HIstory
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Project: Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation | Browse All
Date: March 23, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, HIstory
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