Science for the classroom and beyond
http://traffic.libsyn.com/wsst/LOL67.mp3 Our guest this week is Jamie Loizzo, project manager for Purdue zipTrips™. A zipTrip is an electronic, interactive field trip that connects students across the country to scientists at Purdue University. Through the experience, students are able to observe real-life science laboratories, research and science careers. Listen to the interview and take your kids on a zipTrip! Links Purdue […]
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/wsst/LOL66.mp3 This week we discuss teaching techniques with Frank Noschese. Frank is a high school physics teacher at John Jay High School in Cross River, N.Y. and an active blogger. We talk with Frank about blogging, active student engagement, flipped classrooms, psuedoteaching, and the Khan Academy. Join the conversation and leave your comments. Preview from the Show: There’s a lot of […]
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/wsst/LOL65.mp3 Join us to kick off our 2011-2012 season by talking science standards with Jonathan Osborne from Stanford University. As a committee member who helped draft the Conceptual Framework for New Science Education Standards released this summer, Osborne talks to us about science practices, crosscutting concepts and core ideas found within the framework. Preview from the Show: The intention of […]
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/wsst/LOL56.mp3 To kick off the International Year of Chemistry, we talk with Dr. Martyn Poliakoff and Dr. Samantha Tang from The Periodic Table of Videos. Having completed all videos for all 118 elements, the team is working on updating every element video, while adding other videos such as molecular videos and chemical definition videos. Drs. Poliakoff and Tang talk […]
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/wsst/LOL54.mp3 Originally imagined by Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson as “…an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth…”, The Encyclopedia of Life is a free, online, collaborative encyclopedia intended to document every living species known to science. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world. This week we talk with […]
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/wsst/LOL53.mp3 This week we talk with Daniel M. Carchidi (Publication Director) and Dr. Natalie Kuldell (instructor) about MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW). OCW is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content, open and available to the world. How do you learn science? Join the conversation at www.laboutloud.com to share your favorite classes, media sources, or other ways to learn […]
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/wsst/LOL51.mp3 This week we discuss our favorite science blogs and talk to Rhett Allain – an Associate Professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana University. Rhett discusses science teaching and his popular blog Dot Physics, at www.wired.com/wiredscience/dotphysics. What science blogs do you follow? Join the conversation at laboutloud.com to share your favorite science blogs and websites. Want to setup an […]
Read morehttp://media.libsyn.com/media/wsst/LOL31.mp3 Our guest this week is Jim Brey, Director of the Education Program at the American Meteorological Society. Jim talks to us about the AMS Education Program, which promotes the teaching of atmospheric, oceanographic, and hydrologic sciences through pre-college teacher training and instructional resource material development. Links: AMS Education Program DataStreme Atmosphere – Links to weather maps and other items […]
Read morehttp://media.libsyn.com/media/wsst/LOL23.mp3 Our second international podcast brings us to the University of Nottingham, where The Periodic Table of Videos is hosted. An online periodic table that includes short videos about each element, the PTOV has been watched over 3.9 million times. Dr. Martyn Poliakoff, CBE – a research professor at the University of Nottingham – tells us about The Periodic […]
Read morehttp://media.libsyn.com/media/wsst/LOL17.mp3 To open our second season, we talked with Sir Harold Kroto. Kroto won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 (along with Curl and Smalley) for the discovery of fullerenes. He talks to us about a loss of hands-on experiences in our world, how to reform science education, and offers a new resource for science (and other) educators. Links: […]
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