| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 | ||||
I cannot miss pointing attention to this free lecture by Professor Stephen Ressler. If you ever wondered about amazing architectural structures such as you can find in Sydney, Madrid, London or other international cities, you will enjoy this free lecture. It is only 32 minutes long and it is great! Click on the picture to […]
As a school year begins many of us are thinking once again how to engage our students. A colleague of mine on the BCAPT (www.bcapt.ca) list shared with me this excellent online free resource. I think it will be of use to many science teachers. On this note I would like to wish everybody a […]
Google First Global Science Fair Prizes have been announced and the winners are… click here to find out. I am very proud to report that many of the top winners are girls. I happened to look through their projects (published online) and was amazed at their level. North American students dominated the list of the […]
In the past 8 months, new reports on high school physics and other disciplines on bachelor degrees can be found on the web site of the American Institute of Physics: http://www.aip.org/statistics/catalog.html These reports will be of interest to science educators at high schools and universities and to the students of science.
I would like to share with you a report by Rachel Ivie (Assistant Director of AIP Statistical Research Center). It is an important read for any science or mathematics educator.I am fortunate to know Rachel personally and I know how much effort has been put into collecting and analyzing this data. Rachel’s team has done […]
Check this link for the Conference keynote presentations: http://physics.yale.edu/4th-international-conference-women-physics
Many years ago, I lived in the Ukraine… In 1986 (April 26) Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened and even though we lived 500 km East from the disaster, we were able to detect increased levels of radiation… I was 16 then and I remember how my grandfather brought Geiger Counter home to show me how it […]
Dedushka L’ova (that is how we called him, however his full name was Lev Iosifovich Bolotin or L.I.) was a real experimental physicist. He was my maternal grandfather and he worked in a very exciting place – Laboratory number 1 in the Ukrainian Physical-Technical Institute (UFTI) in Kharkov, Ukraine. My grandmother (who was an engineer […]
Being a physics teachers changes you. I think even when you are not teaching, somewhere in the back of your mind, you keep thinking about it. It became apparent to me when I entered a dollar store (a place frequently visited by teachers) and noticed very cool beads. They are sold as handmade 4D Crystal […]
This term I teach a Science Methods course for elementary teachers. My students will be teaching 5-7 grades when they graduate and I was asked to teach them science or to be more accurate, to teach them about HOW to teach science. Although I have been a science teacher for many years (scary to think […]