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Science Teaching Tips: It’s All in Good Taste (Podcast)
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TI staff biologist Karen Kalumuck busts some of the myths about taste, and presents a few fun activities for the classroom.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: November 18, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science, Biology
Keywords: taste
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: November 18, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science, Biology
Keywords: taste
| Links: | This activity is from the Exploratorium’s Human Body Explorations | The Nose Knows activity | More activities by Karen Kalumuck |
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Science Teaching Tips: Take It from the Top (Podcast)
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00:06:28
00:06:28
A stack of blocks seems to defy gravity in this activity by Exploratorium staff educator Don Rathjen.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: November 11, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: blocks, gravity
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: November 11, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: blocks, gravity
| Links: | Take It from the Top activity | More of Don Rathjen’s activities |
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Science Teaching Tips: A Tale of Adjustment (Podcast)
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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
Subject(s):
Keywords: teaching
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: November 4, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: teaching
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Science Teaching Tips: Going to the Dogs (Podcast)
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What do polarized sunglasses have to do with dog urine? Listen to this curious story from staff physicist Paul Doherty.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: October 28, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: polarized, sunglasses, dog, urine
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: October 28, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: polarized, sunglasses, dog, urine
| Links: | Paul Doherty’s Web site |
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Science Teaching Tips: Stringing Us Along (Podcast)
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00:09:30
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TI program participant Mark Hespenheide presents an elegant illustration of free fall using string and paper clips.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: October 21, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: free, fall, string, paper, clips
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: October 21, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: free, fall, string, paper, clips
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Science Teaching Tips: When Words Fail You (Podcast)
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00:04:55
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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
Subject(s):
Keywords: vocabulary, lesson, teaching
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: October 14, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: vocabulary, lesson, teaching
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Science Teaching Tips: Sound Bytes (Part 2) (Podcast)
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Our host, Stephanie Chasteen, shares some more fun facts and activities having to do with the science of sound.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: October 7, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: sound, science, activities
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: October 7, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: sound, science, activities
| Links: | Stephanie Chasteen’s Web site |
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Science Teaching Tips: I Don't Think So (Podcast)
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00:06:45
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Kids can be pretty skeptical, which can help them to learn more. Children’s book author David Schwartz shares some of the letters from classes who thought they should double-check the numbers in some of his books.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: September 30, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: schwartz, david, skeptical, numbers
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: September 30, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: schwartz, david, skeptical, numbers
| Links: | David Schwartz’s Web site |
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Science Teaching Tips: The Teaching Box (Podcast)
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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
Subject(s):
Keywords: teaching, tool, box
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: September 23, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: teaching, tool, box
| Links: | My Science Box (Web site from TI alumna) |
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Science Teaching Tips: Carbon Dioxide-It's a Gas! (Podcast)
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00:04:08
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TI staff educator Eric Muller shows me how to carbonate my tongue. Blech!
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: September 16, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: carbonate, carbon, dioxide
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: September 16, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: carbonate, carbon, dioxide
| Links: | More of Eric Muller’s activities |
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