Tag Archives: Earth science

Flatten the Classroom with the iGo Microscope

By Martin Horejsi | Published: May 3, 2013

Although many handheld technologies of Star Trek seem antiquated, or perhaps even steam punkish in todays world, there are still a few pieces of Treknata that we dream of. But that list just got one item shorter with the iGo wireless microscope. While not quite a Medical Tricorder, the iGo does capture the essence of [...]

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What science happens in your sandbox?

By Peggy Ashbrook | Published: April 19, 2013

A pile of sand, a sandbox or a sensory table full of sand are tools for imaginative play, sensory exploration and science investigations.  In the April 2013 issue of Science and Children, the Early Years column, I wrote about how children wondered what made a series of cone-shaped pits in a line in the sandbox. [...]

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The history of our planet

By Mary Bigelow | Published: April 18, 2013

One of the themes in several articles and blogs I’ve read makes the case that the study of earth science should not stop at the end of middle school! Illustrating this, the final version of the Next Generation Science Standards were released last week, and the NSTA journals continue a discussion with The NGSS and [...]

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Russian Meteor Fertile Ground for High Tech Exploration…On Your Classroom Computer

By Martin Horejsi | Published: February 17, 2013

The fall of what is unofficially named the Chelyabinsk Meteor (soon to be meteorite) has produced a staggering number of videos. Whether police dashboard camera, cell phone, ATM camera, traffic camera, parking lot, or just one of hundreds of security cameras, clear video of the event from multiple perspectives, angles, and capture methods has packed YouTube [...]

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iPad Simple Harmonic Motion with Household Parts

By Martin Horejsi | Published: February 12, 2013

Simple harmonic motion is not only a foundational topic in physical science, but also a major player in many different fields from music to engineering to architecture, to sports. The iPad can be used to generate a real-time visual presentation of harmonic motion, both simple and complex, with just a few household parts and your [...]

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Earth and space

By Mary Bigelow | Published: February 9, 2013

As the editor notes this month, for many students, their experiences in elementary and middle school are the end of any formal classes in the earth sciences. In high schools, earth science is often an elective (if it’s in the schedule at all). But it’s interesting how the earth sciences seem to bring out the [...]

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A Taste of Augmented Reality

By Martin Horejsi | Published: February 5, 2013

Using the iPad app called StarWalk for augmented reality.

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EarthViewer app from HHMI

By Mary Bigelow | Published: February 1, 2013

My dad was a map-reader. We could spend hours browsing through an atlas or USGS topographic maps. Whenever a conversation centered on a particular location, his response was “Let’s get out the map!” One of the chief roles in family outings was that of navigator with a road map (this was before the age of [...]

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Travel as PD

By Mary Bigelow | Published: January 29, 2013

My school provides some professional development money every two years for summer travel. This summer I would like to take an educational trip to Italy to visit Pompeii, Herculaneum, Vesuvius, some Galileo astronomy sights, or others that would fit into my discipline areas (Earth science and physics). Can you help me find anyone in the [...]

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Identifying rocks

By Mary Bigelow | Published: December 28, 2012

I attended an event where we cleaned out the science warehouse for our school system. I got a lot of great stuff for my elementary science classes, including a box of rock and mineral samples that have little stickers with letters or numbers. I’m sure at some point there was a key that told what [...]

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