Curriculum
Telling Tales
I’ve been thinking about ways to make Science real. If we want students to be STEM literate, then we need to find ways for science to fit into our daily lives. Not an easy task, for it to happen, Science must come down out of it’s ivory tower. C.P. Snow wrote of the divided cultures [...]
Measurement, the Key to Science
In a recent class, we were asked to develop a lesson on measurement. A discussion erupted over the definition of precision and accuracy. It seems we all have it slightly wrong.
The Chinese Space Program Serves Notice
Space stories like this are a prime source of information for cross-disciplinary curriculum units; Politics, Technology, Science, History, Economics, Mathematics, and nothing engages young people like humans in space. This is the stuff that literacy is made of.
A Chinese astronaut, Zhai Zhigang, walked in space today and not as a tourist on the International Space [...]
