Here's a site for people interested in improving science literacy and education, including but not limited to: Parents, science educators, home school teachers, science industries, botanical gardens, museums, and, zoological garden staff. Please feel free to post a comment with ideas or links. Use the search bar at the top left of the blog to find subjects (If you don't find something, please leave a comment.). The left hand column has reference links and the bottom has a survey.
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Some students learn best by drawing. It is amazing what can be done with crayons. Try letting students draw what they see. Many students will do better than I have done. Here are my examples.
Thank you to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for supporting this educational chemistry series.
Have students write what they think chemists do, what kinds of careers they have, and have them name a chemist or two, or, tell who (what kind of person) is likely to become a chemist. Then, watch the videos. Not all at once, but, over time. After the videos, ask the students to write about the same points that they did before seeing the videos. Bring out the first essays. Have the students compare and contrast their before and after essays. Feel free to post the essays here or to have the students write to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation or the Chemical Heritage Foundation or both.
A the idea of a color wheel was also presented in the above video. Let's look at another view of that concept:
Source: http://youtu.be/59QGexKdFUI, Accessed 22 October 2012.
See how geometry comes into play here?
Another video links the traditional color wheel to a scientist. Do you know which scientist? Watch and find out.
Source: http://youtu.be/UE2f44xMJQ0
Do you see ideas here that you can use to develop a lesson or group of lessons or provide tools for students to do their own exploration of science and color? You can bridge from these ideas to animation or electronics or painting or chemistry or interior decorating and you can engage students in science.
Here are some quotes and their translations on an exciting discovery. There's also a related video. Read them, watch the video, and think about these things:
1. Do you think that the body will reject kidneys grown from techniques like these? Why or why not? Can you support your answer? Give some references for the items you choose for support. 2. Is there a similarity among the work of scientists globally? 3. Dr. J thinks this news is exciting. Do you? Why or why not? 4. Was it interesting to hear a woman scientist speaking in her own language? Could you pick up some words? 5. Do you know someone with a kidney disease? 6. What are some ways you can protect your kidneys?
Please feel free to add comments below.
The technique in fact opens the way for technologies that
make it possible to produce human nephrons from patient's own cells and to
mimic human renal diseases by means of genetic manipulation in order to study
the complex mechanisms and a preliminary assessment of the activity of the
drugs, thereby reducing the experimentation animals."The generation of nephrons from
single cells - adds Ariela Benigni, head of the Department of Molecular
Medicine Center Astori - had never been described
Original text
La tecnica infatti apre la strada a tecnologie che
consentiranno di produrre nefroni umani da cellule del paziente stesso e di mimare mediante
manipolazione genetica malattie renali umane per studiarne i complessi
meccanismi e valutare in via preliminare l'attività dei farmaci, riducendo in
questo modo la sperimentazione sugli animali.
“La generazione di nefroni a partire da singole cellule – aggiunge
Ariela Benigni, capo del
dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare del Centro Astori – non era mai stata
descritta
Source: http://goodnews.ws/ Accessed 19 Oct 2012 (Translation—Google Translate)
The importance of the discovery is confirmed by the fact
that the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, a magazine that
publishes the work of Xinaris in its issue of October 18, 2012
Original text
L'importanza della scoperta è testimoniata dal fatto che il
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, rivista che pubblica il lavoro
di Xinaris nel suo numero del
18 ottobre 2012*, ha voluto dedicarle l'editoriale.
Source: http://goodnews.ws/ Accessed 19 Oct 2012 (Translation—Google Translate)
Can you find the original journal article? http://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/23/10.toc . Reading journal articles can be a slow process and the more you read them in a certain area, the faster the process is. I encourage you to follow new developments, like this one, as they happen, in the technical journals. You might not know all the words, but as Joan Beinetti says (personal communication, 1989), "No one knows all the words." You develop a bigger vocabulary by reading more and using the new words you find. Enjoy!
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Hi there!
Don't worry, this isn't really homework. I was checking out read-about-it.blogspot.com and I saw your page titled "Lab Exercise Link from Morrison Labs - Read about it." Here's the link in case you don't remember it: read-about-it.blogspot.com/2010/09/some-lab-exercises-from-morrison-labs.htmlA lot of teachers and students aren't aware of the free teaching resource videos and homework help tutorials that are available online. There is an awesome site called HippoCampus.org that covers all the subjects--and it's supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Check out some of our videos on algebra: Here's the link. I was hoping that if you liked it, you wouldn't mind sharing it with your readers by mentioning it on your site. If math isn't your subject, HippoCampus.org also offers free help for science, history, government and more so maybe you would just like to recommend HippoCampus.org.
Thanks!
Beth Pickett
Thanks so much, Beth. I am sure our readers will enjoy improving their algebra skills here. Math is critical to science literacy.
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