Archive for July 2008
Science, evolution and creationism (again)
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: July 21, 2008
- In: Education | evolution | Science | survey
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I have written before about creationism and science education, and how it is not mentioned in Junior Cert Science. Every so often these surveys appear in the papers; this one was in the New Scientist last May. Researchers polled a random sample of nearly 2000 high-school science teachers across the US in 2007: [ ] asked [...]
Fun with magnets
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: July 17, 2008
- In: Education | youtube
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I have a couple of old CRT televisions at the back of the lab, and bring them out to show what happens when you put a rare-earth magnet in front of them. However I obviously lack the imagination to come up with a show like this. I’ll be more adventurous next time; turn off the [...]
Templates from chutedesign and googledocs
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: July 17, 2008
So your whole lesson plan revolves around your students drawing graphs, but just at the last minute you realise you haven’t any graphpaper left. Never fear – chutedesign to the rescue! You can even choose the blank paper option: Blank Paper – for those who cant open that damned printer to get a blank page [...]
Some cool science resources
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: July 15, 2008
Just got back from wonderful New Zealand yesterday and came across some of these impressive deals. Digital calipers from aldi for €10, available from Sunday 13th (checkout blowtorch available also for €10). Why would anyone use the old-fashioned vernier calipers when you these cut out all the confusion. Ideal for ‘measuring the resistivity of wire’ experiment. [...]
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