Science for the classroom and beyond
Our guest this week is Matt Brady. Along with his wife Shari, these two high school science teachers have been working to bring pop culture into the classroom to increase student engagement and understanding of science. Their website The Science Of helps broadcast these ideas and strategies with the goal of providing a place for popular culture to act as a springboard to […]
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This week we talk with Shane Peterman, PR Manager at ThinkGeek.com. In March, ThinkGeek introduced “Take These Broken Things“, a program where they were thinking* about sending boxes of broken stuff to deserving groups (like a school technology lab or a FIRST Robotics team). http://traffic.libsyn.com/wsst/LOL63.mp3 We talk with Shane about the program, re-purposing electronics, and about the products available […]
Read moreLooking for Earth Day resources to use in the classroom? We thought it might be nice to remind you about a few LOL Podcasts that can be used to help save the earth: Episode 30 with Mike Heithaus (protecting ocean life) Episode 22 – EPA’s SC3 Program Episode 20 with Ed Begley Jr. Episode 14 with Bill Nye
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