{"id":3304,"date":"2016-11-11T21:32:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T03:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2016-11-11T21:47:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T03:47:55","slug":"an-interactive-periodic-table-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2016\/11\/11\/an-interactive-periodic-table-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interactive Periodic Table and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I returned from attending a very inspring <a href=\"http:\/\/stem.bnu.edu.cn\/\">STEM conference in Beijing, China<\/a>. The conference focused on STEM, but a big part of it was dedicated to the use of technology. As I stayed in BJ for a few more days, I was invited to visit a very interesting museum: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China_Science_and_Technology_Museum\">China Science and Technology Museum <\/a>in the BJ Olympic Park. As everything else in China, it is huge. As I visited a Science Museum in Shanghai a few years back, I thought I knew what to expect. However, this museum in Beijing was something absolutely different. It was very interactive and engaging ,and I saw many families doing science activities with their children. I also felt that the range of themes was interesting. I wish they showed a few women in science (they didn&#8217;t show even their own Madame Wu, who was a very notable physicist). However, they did try to make it engaging and I think they had succeeded in many ways.<\/p>\n<p>I also was able to ask a few questions of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dmitri_Mendeleev\">Dmitri Mendeleev<\/a> (although I have to admit, he only wanted to speak Mandarin, so I wasn&#8217;t able to understand him). I was amazed at how he was able to learn the language so fast. This was also interesting as he even turned towards me when I asked a question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2016\/11\/14940038_10155362706623362_1237623928316817069_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3307\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2016\/11\/14940038_10155362706623362_1237623928316817069_o-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"14940038_10155362706623362_1237623928316817069_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2016\/11\/14940038_10155362706623362_1237623928316817069_o-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2016\/11\/14940038_10155362706623362_1237623928316817069_o-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2016\/11\/14940038_10155362706623362_1237623928316817069_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2016\/11\/14940038_10155362706623362_1237623928316817069_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was thinking how the designers of this museum used technology to engage visitors of different ages. It was very interesting. Maybe I also enjoyed it because it wasn&#8217;t as crowded, as it was in November when the kids have to do their homework or go to school.<\/p>\n<p>Today I was introduced to this very exciting web site &#8211; it should you how each element of the periodic table impacts our lives. It is fun.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/elements.wlonk.com\/ElementsTable.htm<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UUvzq6OQWdk[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I returned from attending a very inspring STEM conference in Beijing, China. The conference focused on STEM, but a big part of it was dedicated to the use of technology. As I stayed in BJ for a few&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2016\/11\/11\/an-interactive-periodic-table-and-more\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Interactive Periodic Table and more&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[795,6989,6981,4899,31,236258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-general-teaching","category-interactivity-in-the-classroom","category-outreach","category-personal","category-science-and-society","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}