Water - An Inquiry Approach

People often ask us what we mean when we talk about an "inquiry approach" to science learning, and we recently came across this teacher developed video from Australia that does a wonderful job at demonstrating how such a project could be done. That she manages to incorporate some cool technology like Skype to talk to other schools around the world, makes it even cooler.

To download the video, entittled "Water Crossing", click here.

Google Sky

One of the nice things about being here at Exploding Beakers is that when new technology gets released (or even old ones dusted off), it's part of our "job" to play around with it. It's not just kindergarten teachers that subscribe to the "Learn Through Play" philosophy -we do too, and it's something we encourage all science teachers to explore.

So over the next few days we will be playing around with Google Sky, the latest addition to Google Earth, a free download we've been a fan of for some time. Now, users can turn the power Google program into the night sky and use it to view images of interstellar objects. Currently, we've been using Stellarium for our astronomy focused units in grades six, seven, and nine, as well as high school physics.

You can check out both of these programs through the sidebar download link.

Setting up the podcasts

As we are still in the early stages of collecting resources, we have tentatively begun posting links to various science podcasts. In a few weeks we hope to edit this down into something more manageable.

Please let us know about resources you'd like to see here.

Let the Photons Fly!

As we enter the final week of August, teachers and students are preparing themselves for the beginning of a new school, we here at Exploding Beakers can feel the hum and electricty, like ozone at a power plant. We are excited to bring science teachers the latest in news about science education, as well as spotlighting new technology and classroom activities!

So, hello and best wishes to you all!

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This site is meant to be an online repository for assorted links and resources for Jr. High and High School Science teachers.