Archive for October, 2005
Kids Voting
We’re having our municipal elections tomorrow and the kids are being encouraged to participate through a program sponsored by the school district and Kids Voting. I had the experience today of helping the fourth graders learn how to vote online. I knew this was going to be a stretch for a lot of them because [...]
Celebrate Relativity
This is the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s theory of relativity, which described the equivalency of matter and energy in the well known E = mc² equation. Einstein explained that the equation E = mc², in which energy is equal to mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that small amounts of [...]
Cookbook Education
Inquire Within, by Douglas Llewellyn is an introduction to inquiry-based science education. I’m reading it for a course I’m taking with the Alaska Science Consortium. The book provides background information on what inquiry is - and isn’t, and what it might look like in a science classroom. Llewellyn used the term cookbook science as a [...]
