IGSS 2013-14 Student Links

This could be a pretty cool ERJ project!

This is great, Lindsay!

50 years after the Civil Rights movement.

This just goes to show how badly we need to reform our prisons and how judges sentence people. It also makes me think of David Eagleman's Incognito, because so many of the people who are serving life sentences just got caught up in drugs, prison should be more of a rehabilitation set up.

For those of you that read "Young Men and Fire" last year. This article is about the Missoula fire science lab that was referenced in the book.

Later this year, each of you is going to be researching and working on a project you care about.  Here's an example of a student who is in an early stage of that sort of thing.  And its an issue that matters.

An article relevant to our Syria discussion on Friday. The questions I have after reading this are, with regard to Syria, what outcome do we want to achieve, and will military intervention achieve that end?

I've always said I wanted cars to be able to drive themselves because I always get so tired when I'm driving... Imagine the time we could save if while we drove we could actually be reading or napping or just enjoying the road instead of focusing on the stress of it. This would create less accidents- but what would happen if the computer crashed.. can we really put our lives in the hand of a machine? Is this showing how dependent on technology we've become; we think we cannot even drive our own cars? What would happen to traffic police?

I like how this article focuses on ways students and teachers can work together to improve student engagement in high schools. I'm also impressed by how much of what it suggests is already being done in IGSS! 

I know that not everyone is sold on our Mobile Learning program, and I find this article really does a nice job of illustrating how the iPads can be used effectively to improve the learning experience, and I suspect IGSS will be one place where we see some of these ideas come to light at NTHS.

This is an interesting article about the study of thought in animals. One hundred years after the gorilla was discovered by Du Chaillu people still didn't recognize intelligence in primates and focused primarily on language acquisition.