Chile is a very long but narrow country located in one of the most active tectonic regions of the earth. As seen in the map below, Chile is close to or part of four tectonic plates: the Antarctic Plate, the Nazca Plate, the...
Read MoreOn August 5, 2010, the San Jose Copper and Gold mine near Copiapó, Chile collapsed trapping 33 miners 2200 feet beneath the surface. The San Jose mine has been operating for nearly 100 years, and the mining for copper and...
Read MoreAll of the 33 Chilean miners, trapped for more than two months 2,200 feet below the surface, have been brought up to the surface using the ingenious capsule, designed by NASA and built by the Chilean navy. The capsule traveled...
Read MoreI received an email from the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation announcing that they are now accepting applications for its prestigious KSTF Teaching Fellowships. Renewable for up to five years and valued at up to $150,000, the...
Read MoreWho travels faster than a speeding bullet? Who jumps buildings in a single bound? No, its not superman, its probably your 7th grade science teacher! I’ve written about a movie which was just released titled Waiting for...
Read MoreThere was an article published today in the New York Times entitled STEM Education has little to do with flowers written by Natalie Angier. She started her article this way: If you want to talk about bolstering science and math...
Read MoreLast week I was asked to contribute to the Room for Debate discussion site on The Opinion Pages of the New York Times. On a nearly daily basis, Room for Debate posses a questions, and solicits contributions from four or five...
Read MoreIn the early 1970s, while at Georgia State University, a team of science educators (professors, science education graduate students, and classroom teachers) spent two years developing a comprehensive set of objectives and test...
Read MoreThere was a government report on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education released over the past few days. The report, combined with the National Research Council’s project which has developed a...
Read MoreIn today’s culture of reform, it is governors, corporate leaders, politicians, and a few organizations founded and funded by the previous mentioned groups–people who know little of teaching and learning–that...
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