Name: Claire Johns Hometown: Right here in San Diego, CA! Hobbies: Running, yoga, reading What do you study? There are special cells in your body that can turn into any other type of cell. They can become brain cells, heart cells, skin cells, any type of cell! These special cells are called stem cells. Stem cells […]
Archives for February 2014
Alan Alda’s challenge to scientists: let students be the judges. (Slate article)
“Alda was about to go speak at the annual conference for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I asked what he would be saying to all the scientists gathered there. He says it’s not about shortcuts or tricks for talking to regular people. “The thing is, scientists really want to do better at […]
Scientist Profile: Adam Stocker
Name: Adam Stocker Hometown: Orrville, Ohio Hobbies: Brazilian jiu-jitsu and playing with my daughter What do you study? I study how the brain develops. But that’s a really big problem, so I just study how the different sense areas of the brain are made. For an example, the area of your brain that figures […]
First SciChat tomorrow!
I will be doing our first SciChat tomorrow. After a test run, we decided that Skype is far superior to Google Hangouts for the combination of video chatting and showing a presentation via screen sharing. I will post a follow up after the Chat tomorrow, so stay tuned!
Wondering what elementary school students are taught about your field?
Wondering what elementary school students are required to learn about your field? There are two good resources for this: the National Science Education Standards, and Benchmarks for Science Literacy. I came upon this informative article (Tanner and Allen, 2002) in the journal Cell Biology Education that outlines the core concepts that students in various age […]