…as the primary material for learner design, exploration, and inquiry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXq4zFjGSbM Watch how to create your own devices from cardboard – machines, robots, toys, automata, kinetic artwork – that move!…
Lights, camera, action: A video that introduces the NGSS practice of scientific argumentation Blog Post
…to scientific arguments in a fun and relatable way and to make the terminology and process of scientific argumentation less daunting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J63hWQw2hU We’re piloting the video in our Will there…
…a single bound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ya3k_WbwgQ&feature=youtu.be The San Joaquin County Office of Education FabLab. Part engineering classroom, part makerspace, the FabLab is a 100% designated student design zone. The idea behind the…
…no easy feat. But working in these harsh conditions is the only way that scientists might be able to understand what Earth’s climate was like 1.5 million years ago. http://www.npr.org/2011/03/04/134229249/its-bottoms-up-for-antarctic-ice-sheets…
…ice sheet dynamics and their relationship with the global climate system.” Explore the relationship between temperature and ice-melting in our activity, “What will Earth’s climate be in the future?“ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110126131538.htm…
…about the stars to fully describe the planets. Just as in all scientific fields, the latest breakthrough discoveries are always built on a strong foundation of basic research. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110110151155.htm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110110-nasa-kepler-10b-new-planet-found-rocky-science-space/…
…100 to be considered significant. http://www.xkcd.com/882 Scientists test their hypotheses multiple times to be sure of the significance of their results. Even though one test may reach a significant p-value,…
From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/164/ Science is about facts and evidence. There is a lot of evidence that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. You can explore with our models how carbon…
From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/402/ The permafrost line is shifting. It may be slow by tornado-chasing standards, but it’s shifting. A study earlier this year from Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada…
…Formaldehyde is relatively abundant throughout the galaxy, making it possible that life could form in other solar systems in the same way that it formed in this solar system. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110404151351.htm…