For those of you new to this blog, I am devoting Fridays during the holiday season to recommending “Gifts for the Gifted”. You can see the three posts that I have done so far here, here and here. You can also visit my Pinterest board on Games for Gifted Students. A lot of these are not just for gifted … Read more
This isn’t, technically, an educational site. But I definitely think that it could be integrated into math classes everywhere, and even high school physics. Remember the movie, Up? Well, Movato Real Estate decided to find out how many balloons it would really take to lift a house. On this site, David Cross explains the logic … Read more
The blog “Science is Beauty” recently posted this great infographic poster created by Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham. I like how some of the numbers are given comparisons, such as how the 100 thousand miles of axons in our brain would be equivalent to 4 trips around the Earth. I think it might be fun … Read more
This week’s Fun Friday post is a link to the “Technabob Blog“, where Hazel Chua posted an image gallery of the many unique billboards Science World is using in its new advertising campaign. How can this be used in an educational setting? Well, you could have students research and expound upon the facts cited in … Read more
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious—it is the source of all true art and science.” ~ Albert Einstein The 2012 Photomicrography Competition is a perfect combination of art and science, a delightful example of the awe-inspiring beauty that even the smallest pieces of the natural world possess. Browse through the winners … Read more
These minimalistic posters, from Hydrogene Portfolio, could be good “hooks” for your students. They could: research the women on the posters, try to find more women to add to the set and develop similar posters, discuss why there is not a set of six men who changed science (or, is there?), create sets of posters … Read more