Posts Tagged ‘Science’
Naming of Parts, by Henry Reed
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 6, 2011
One poem that I particularly like (and have hanging outside the door of my lab) is “Naming of Parts” by Henry Reed; it contrasts a lesson in military weaoons with a flowering plant. My classroom looks out on a flower garden and I often think of this poem as I spot another student gazing wistfully [...]
The Two Cultures – why our schools are to blame
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 6, 2011
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer By Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, [...]
Teachersource.com – for all your Science toys/Xmas pressies
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: November 23, 2011
If you haven’t yet bought your Christmas pressies, you could do a lot worse than consider teachersource.com as your one-stop shop. I have been using it for years; it’s a fantastic source for science ‘toys’ for your lab, but there’s no reason why you couldn’t use it to stock up on presents for the little [...]
Military sponsoring Science: let’s just keep that out of our textbooks shall we?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: June 12, 2011
I like to use the following cartoon as an introduction to discussing what science is about. As for the answer to how science really works – I simply tell students I don’t know, and I’m not sure anybody does. I’m not even sure we could agree on on a definition of what Science is. However [...]
Did you know that you won the lottery?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 17, 2011
We have always assumed that ‘we’ will be around forever; not only that but we wonder how long it will be before we can colonise other planets and solar systems. We conveniently ignore the fact that our being here in the first place may be nothing more that the fortutitous result of an incredible set of [...]
Harry Chapin – Flowers are red
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: October 31, 2010
- In: songs | wonder | Wonder in Science
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Criticising our education system is not new – why would it be when it’s like shooting fish in a barrel? One of the better known recent commentaries came from Sir Ken Robinson at a TED conference a few years back who made a very convincing argument for changing our focus away from the academic subjects and instead develop a greater emphasis [...]
Please put SPACE on our Science syllabus
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: October 11, 2010
- In: big bang | cosmology | Education | syllabus
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science.ie is currently hosting a survey of readers to find out what they consider to be the greatest mystery in Science. The leader by quite some way is “How did the universe begin?” The theme for this year’s Science Week is “Our place in space“, and no doubt thousands of students will spend an hour [...]
Science and Religion with Mr. Diety
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: August 15, 2010
Pretty much self-explanatory. This one is about the somewhat tricky concept of how to create both matter and time. Mind you I’m not sure Science is doing much better at an explanation, but we tend to hide that little fact behind a barrage of highly technical and long-winded sentences so it’s not so obvious. And [...]
A science-teacher’s apology
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 11, 2010
We educators take this incredibly exotic jungle of knowledge called science and distil it until all the wonder has been removed and we are left with nothing but a heap of dry shavings. We then pour this into our syllabus and textbooks and make our students learn it off by heart so that it can [...]
Passion and Inspiration
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 25, 2010
Rule no. 1: Passion I had only been teaching for about three years (mostly junior cert science and leaving cert maths) and was getting fed up with it. I would have liked to have been teaching Physics but there were already two physics teachers in the school so it wasn’t looking like that was going [...]
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