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One of the things we like to do to make us feel better about the fact that good teachers aren’t paid what they’re worth and they have a crappy work environment is call them heroes.
Such platitudes make us feel a lot less guilty and more than a little relieved that we don’t have to do […]
Sean Carroll’s Cosmology Course from The Teaching Company
As many of you know, I’m homeschooling my son is 8th grade science this year and so far we’ve been having lots of fun discussing science topics and this week we’re beginning to do some projects.
Lately there has been a split among the students about where they want […]
I’m so used to this being in the Spring that I almost forgot:
Many of us have grown accustomed to having Astronomy Day fall in late April or early May, which is when this stargazing celebration has been observed since its inception. And in fact this past April 21st amateur astronomers around the world did host […]
Yesterday in my homeschool science class, we had a discussion of how dark energy is thought to drive the expansion of the universe.
“If you had a bottle one cubic centimeter in volume and sucked out everything in it: every atom, molecule, dark matter particle… everything… how much energy do you think would remain in the […]
In a few weeks, I’ll be starting a unit on galaxies formation and evolution in my homeschool science class and while thinking about what activities I could have the students do, the first thing that popped in my mind was GalaxyZoo.org.
I plan to have a few discussions on how galaxies form and the various types, […]
Google’s latest version of Google Earth now lets you explore the night sky:
They’ve incorporated several datasets from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute, and Digital Sky Survey Consortium (which is a collaboration of many datasets, including Palomar’s sky survey). I was playing with it today and really thought it was cool.
I […]
It turns out that homeschooling science this year for my son is going to be pretty fun. I’ve spend the last few weeks developing my curriculum and I now have a rough outline of what I’m going to do.
I began by looking at the science standards set forth by the Boulder Valley School District […]
I’ve written before about my disappointment with the science class my seventh grade son had last year. I was so disappointed that I decided I would teach him science my self this year. I have found Boulder Valley School District science education to be amazingly sub-standard considering the number of scientists and engineers […]
I just found out that there is an effort to digitize over 500,000 astronomical image plates spanning over 100 years.
“Besides being 25 percent of the world’s total of astronomical photographic plates, this is the only collection that covers both hemispheres,” said Alison Doane, curator of a glass database occupying three floors, two of them subterranean, […]
Prospective students looking to start their astronomy careers are often confused as to whether they should major in physics or astronomy.
This is an excellent question and one that does require a little forethought before getting started; although one could easily start one program and transfer to the other with relatively little impact if you do […]
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