I received an email from the Union of Concerned Scientists today inviting me to get a free sticker "Got Science?" if I would take a pop quiz on global warming. The quiz asks you to decide whether a series of statements are "False: Not Science" or "True: Got Science!"...
I received an email from Minjae Ormes, of the National Geographic Channel announcing a programming event, Great Migrations, which began on November 7, and will continue with 6 additional programs. Following the migrations of many animals, the program also includes...
In the last post I reviewed the article "Tracking the Footprints Puzzle: The Problematic persistence of science-as-process in teaching the nature and culture of science by Charles Ault and Jeff Dodick which was published in the recent issue of the journal Science...
The dinosaur footprint puzzle is an interesting way to engage students in an investigation and discussion of dinosaurs. The footprint puzzle is an activity that has been used by science teachers for a long time. It was first used in the text Investigating the...
NASA scientists, of Project LCROSS, have reported that there is water in one of the moon's craters, and that there is more water in this crater than there is in the Sahara Desert. The water, in the form of ice crystals, makes up about 5 - 8% of the crater's mixture....
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 Scotia Plate and the South American Plate....
