In this weblog post, I am continuing the discussion started yesterday when I invoked Carl Sagan’s signature phrase, “Billions and Billions.” Today I want to look at the budget that the U.S. Department of...
Read MoreIn this weblog post, I am continuing the discussion started yesterday when I invoked Carl Sagan’s signature phrase, “Billions and Billions.” Today I want to look at the budget that the U.S. Department of...
Read MoreIn the widely popular PBS program Cosmos, Carl Sagan approximated the numbers of planets, stars and galaxies in the Universe as “billions and billions”—his famous catch phrase. Over the past several months,...
Read MoreThere were two opinion pieces in the editorial section of Sunday’s Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper to shed light on an issue that surfaced as the result of a report released by the Governor’s Office of Student...
Read MoreScienceDebate2008 has been carefully monitoring, and indeed, encouraging participants in supporting the passage of the stimulus bill, which will be signed into law by President Obama in Colorado, on Tuesday. There are two broad...
Read MoreToday is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Yes, these two important people were born on the same day in the same year, February 12, 1809. One would go on to explain how humans evolved as...
Read MoreToday is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Yes, these two important people were born on the same day in the same year, February 12, 1809. One would go on to explain how humans evolved as...
Read MoreI was invited by one of our grandsons’ teachers to visit her 7th grade life science class at Greenbrier Middle School, Evans, Georgia (about 15 miles west of Augusta). I had not taught a lesson for a group of 7th graders...
Read MoreThe US Senate is working on the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment bill, and as of today, it appears that it will be approved in the Senate, perhaps on Tuesday. However, Shawn Otto has been in contact with citizens that are...
Read MoreScience teachers have their students keep science notebooks and journals as a way to help them keep a record of their work, and as a place to reflect on their ideas. For many teachers, the journal is one way to help students use...
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