Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips
Teacher Institute Teaching Tips is a bite-sized podcast for science teachers, by science teachers. In each five-minute episode, we give you hands-on activities, science facts, science history, pedagogy tips for new teachers, or other ideas for your science classroom.
Want to ask a science question of our experts, or share a teaching tip of your own? Please e-mail us at teachingtips@exploratorium.edu.
Next Podcast: March 24, 2010
The Last Straw
Despite my better judgment, I invite TI staff educator Eric Muller to do one more set of activities—several things you can do with soda straws.
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Date: March 17, 2010
Running Time: 00:09:00
Audio: Mono
Mini Labs
TI teacher coach Zeke Kossover explains how he uses short, focused lab activities to really get concepts across to his students.
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Date: March 10, 2010
Running Time: 00:05:36
Audio: Mono
“Hey, neat!” The Importance of Provocación
Do your lessons sometimes fall flat? Staff educator Modesto Tamez explains how to be a good salesperson and get students engaged.
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Date: March 3, 2010
Running Time: 00:13:11
Audio: Mono
The Drama of the Immune System
Staff educator Tory Brady performs a bit of theater, demonstrating the roles of the star players in the immune system.
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Date: February 24, 2010
Running Time: 00:04:52
Audio: Mono
Seeing the Light
Newton wasn’t really ready to believe that light was a wave, and so he didn’t see what was in front of his eyes. Staff physicist Paul Doherty tells how to do the same experiment that Newton did back in the 1650s to see the wave nature of light.
Links: | Paul Doherty’s Web site |
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Date: February 17, 2010
Running Time: 00:10:10
Audio: Mono
Then You Measure It
Put kids’ skepticism to work! Children’s book author David Schwartz explains how a class disagreed with the numbers in one of his math books, and set out to prove him wrong!
Links: | David Schwartz’s Web site |
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NISE: SmallTalk
SmallTalk is a podcast series where we chat about nanotechnology with leading scientists, thinkers, artists, writers, and visionaries, and look at quirky nanoscience stories in the news.
Teacher Institute Summer Institute
Want to know more about the Teacher Institute’s Summer Institute for educators? Then listen to our podcasts! Whether you’re a teacher interested in applying to our Classic Summer Institute or you’ve already been accepted into it, you’ll find detailed descriptions of the summer experience in these audio programs.
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