Teaching Ideas
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 [...]
Engineering comes to High School
UT at Austin has announced that the National Science Foundation, NSF, has joined an impressive array of sponsors, including Exxon Mobil and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with a $12.5 million grant to fund the popular UTeach program to prepare High School Engineering Educators. But, I think individual teachers can do it for a [...]
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