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Massimo Boscherini

L'avventura delle due Lune così si spiega la faccia "ruvida" - Repubblica.it - 0 views

  • Un giorno molto lontano la Terra aveva due lune. Poi una impattò sull'altra molto dolcemente, quasi planando su di essa e plasmò metà della sua superficie. Questo quadro della storia del nostro satellite ha il pregio di spiegare perché la Luna, quella che oggi splende nei nostri cieli, ha due facce così diverse. Quella che è rivolta a noi infatti, è molto più ricca di pianure rispetto a quella che non si mostra mai e che è molto più ricca di altopiani.
  • Spiega Francis Nimmo della University of California di Santa Cruz che ha pubblicato la sua ricerca su Nature: "Quando i due corpi arrivarono a una distanza di circa un terzo di quella che oggi possiede la Luna, cioè circa 10 milioni di anni dopo la loro formazione, iniziò a farsi sentire su di loro la gravità del Sole che agì su i due oggetti in modo diverso, in quanto differenti erano le loro masse. Questo ebbe come risultato lo scontro tra i due oggetti. L'impatto però avvenne molto dolcemente perché in due corpi si trovavano sulla medesima orbita".
  • Una spiegazione "interessante e provocatoria", l'ha definita Peter Schultz, planetologo alla Brown University di Providence (Rhode Island), perché potrebbe spiegare l'anomalia della struttura lunare, ma al momento essa va presa come un'ipotesi e solo quando avremo dati più sicuri e certi potremo avere una conferma o meno di questa tesi.
Massimo Boscherini

Kablam! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine - 0 views

  • The three panels show a 1986 test of a Tomahawk cruise missile. The missile traveled 640 km (400 mile) low over the terrain to detonate above the target, a decommissioned fighter plane. It’s pretty clear the test was a success.
  • When the missile exploded, the expanding debris cloud from the vaporized weapon was probably moving faster than the speed of sound. Even so, in this second picture you can see none of it had touched the plane yet when the shot was snapped. Yet look at the plane: it’s on fire. How can that be? It’s because of something that moves much faster even than supersonic debris: light. When the warhead exploded, it sent out a huge pulse of heat in the form of infrared photons, light that travels about a million times faster than sound. As far as that flash of heat was concerned, the expanding debris was standing perfectly still! There was plenty of time for that heat to get to the plane and set it aflame before the explosion itself could reach that far.
Massimo Boscherini

schoolscience.co.uk - 0 views

  • To find over 700 science learning resources, click on an age range tab or Teacher Zone on the left, then follow the instructions at the top of each page.
Massimo Boscherini

The History of the Space Shuttle - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • From its first launch 30 years ago to its final launch scheduled for next Friday, NASA's Space Shuttle program has seen moments of dizzying inspiration and of crushing disappointment.
  • When next week's launch is complete, the program will have sent up 135 missions, ferrying more than 350 humans and thousands of tons of material and equipment into low Earth orbit. Fourteen astronauts have lost their lives along the way -- the missions have always been risky, the engineering complex, the hazards extreme.
Massimo Boscherini

One small step - NYPOST.com - 0 views

  • So, will we ever be sending humans to space again?
Massimo Boscherini

Improving outcomes for EAL learners in science - 0 views

  • We chose this case study because it is an example of a teacher who noticed a group of pupils were falling behind in a particular subject and how she went about closing the attainment gap.
  • The teacher, an ethnic minorities achievement grant (EMA) co-ordinator, set out to investigate why the students of Pakistani origin could achieve Level 5 in English in the KS3 SATs, but not in Science.
  • She found that the EAL learners felt they needed:specific teaching of key wordsa scaffolding for writing up practical work.
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  • Many of the students identified new vocabulary as a problem.
  • The students suggested they would like dictionaries that gave specific scientific definitions of words.
  • The students also found writing in science difficult because they were unsure how to write up practical work.
  • The EMA teacher together with the science teachers developed a range of teaching and learning materials for two Year 7 groups based on the students' comments.
  • The EMA teacher evaluated the impact of these strategies through student comment, end of module tests and classroom observations.
  • Staff noticed that teaching the students specific keywords helped the students improve their oral contributions, and that the students were more likely to use the correct vocabulary in their group discussions.
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