On May 20th I had the opportunity to sit in on SciChats #7 at our partner classroom at Del Mar Hills Academy. I got to meet Shane (that handsome guy up there)- the classroom’s pet bearded lizard. I also got to see how SciChats works from the other side. It was inspiring and fun to see […]
Scientist Profile: April Goebl
Name: April Goebl Hometown: Salt Spring Island. A small island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Hobbies: Rock climbing, hiking mountains, cooking dinner with friends, reading, learning languages, travelling by bicycle. What do you study? I study how changes in DNA (molecules that make up genes and are found in the nucleus of cells) can lead to disease. […]
Scientist Profile: Avani Gadani
Name: Avani Gadani Hometown: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, right next to Amish country. Hobbies: Telescope making, kayaking, video games, and cooking What do you study? I study how the light that comes into our eyes turns into pictures, and ultimately ideas in our brains. Neurons, the cells in your brain, react to a pictures of the natural world by […]
SciChats on the Salk home page
http://www.salk.edu/news/pressrelease_details.php?press_id=657
Scientist Profile: Eran Mukamel
Name: Eran Mukamel Hometown: Born in Rehovot, Israel / grew up in Rochester, NY. Hobbies: I love music, and I play the clarinet. I also like to read, hike and jog. What do you study? I study how our brains allow us to see, feel, think, walk, run, and sleep. All of these are (to […]
Scientist Profile: Claire Johns
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 […]
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 […]