Nov

13

Scholarpedia: The Free Peer Reviewed Encyclopedia

November 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Scholarpedia: The free peer reviewed encyclopedia – written by scholars from all around the world. Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program – MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to review and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article [...]

Oct

6

BioEd Online Teacher Resources

October 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment

BioEd Online Teacher Resources – Biology Lesson Plans. ‘A series of educational units for grades 4-8 highlighting each of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s (NSBRI) research areas. Subsequent units, developed by Baylor College of Medicine, will give students the opportunity to investigate each NSBRI research area. Established in 1997 through a NASA competition, the [...]

Oct

4

Stephen Hawking Lectures at CERN

October 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Stephen Hawking Tours the Future of Particle Physics at CERN. ‘Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Cambridge University and best-selling author of A Brief History of Time, has paid a week long visit to CERN1 in Geneva – the world’s largest centre for particle physics. Prof. Hawking was visiting the Theory Unit of the Physics Department [...]

Sep

24

Report: Major Improvements Needed in K-8 Science Education

September 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8. ‘What is science for a child? How do children learn about science and how to do science? Drawing on a vast array of work from neuroscience to classroom observation, Taking Science to School provides a comprehensive picture of what we know about teaching and [...]

Sep

21

Electromagnetism Animations at MIT

September 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Visualizing Electricity and Magnetism at MIT. ‘We are using visualizations in teaching physics interactively in freshman courses at MIT (classes of 500 students). We combine desktop experiments with visualizations of those experiments to “make the unseen seen”. Our visualizations are organized into five categories: Vector Fields, Electrostatics, Magnetostatics, Faraday’s Law, and Light. Here we present [...]

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