Tag Archives: physics

Off to the races with physics!

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I enjoyed watching auto races as a child, so I decided to check out Norm Barstow’s session, Elastic Power: Wind Up Your Engines and Explore (a.k.a. “NASCAR in New Orleans”).

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Picture-perfect elementary STEM

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This morning in New Orleans, as part of the Urban Science Education Leadership (USEL) session, presenters from the Baltimore City Public Schools described their district’s Elementary STEM Teacher Clinic and how it transformed the teachers who participated in it.

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Science lessons from history

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Find out how and why science educators around the country are integrating history in their science lessons to help students make connections to their world.

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Are your high school students WORTHY?

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Know a freshman or sophomore majoring in physics, engineering, computer science, or math who has a solid 3.0 GPA? Northrop Grumman’s WORTHY program has much to offer him or her.

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Force and motion and humor

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NSTA Press author Bill Robertson has extended his popular Stop Faking It! series with the new teacher resource Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion (Grades 5–9). Teachers have responded enthusiastically to the lively mix of clear explanations and irreverent humor that are the hallmarks of Robertson’s original series. In the new [...]

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Physics filtered through a three-year-old

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“Whether we like it or not,” Christoph Niemann writes at the New York Times website, “human life is subject to the universal laws of physics.” He goes on to illustrate: My day, for example, starts with a demonstration of Newton’s First Law of Motion. It states, “Every body continues in its state of rest, or [...]

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Science and creativity

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Recently, the ISTE Connects blog had a discussion How do you teach creativity? in response to the recent Newsweek article The Creativity Crisis. We often think of creativity in terms of the arts, but I had a great conversation with a colleague on what creativity would look like in science. I’m not sure we can [...]

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Cotton candy, roller coasters, and STEM

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Have you ever taken your students to STEM education events at an amusement park?

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So how was the conference?

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Read what your colleagues had to say.

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Spend a little, gain a lot

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I revisited a popular session held last year in New Orleans to see who showed up this year.

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