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Tanya Baker

Content in Museums: Objects? People? Questions? | Open Book Librarian - 0 views

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    blog post that raises questions about what is content in museums. probably a great read for intersections teams as a way to think/talk/write about their work together. (thanks Kim Douillard)
Tanya Baker

Building Electronics is Getting Easier with the Open Hardware Revolution | Business on ... - 0 views

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    a description of a company "littlebits" that makes electronics modules and kits for building electronics
Tanya Baker

ConvergeDiverge - 0 views

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    nice occassional blog by physics professor
Tanya Baker

What Would You Share if You Found a Diary Tied to a Park Bench? | Atlanta on GOOD - 0 views

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    "Bench Diaries" is a project in which a woman ties diaries to local park benches, tweets and instagrams their locations, and then waits to see what happens. I wonder what would happen if we tried this in science museums?
Tanya Baker

Education Week: STEAM: Experts Make Case for Adding Arts to STEM - 0 views

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    Making a case for including art in science and technology work
Tanya Baker

Discovery Street Tours - 0 views

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    a local San Francisco community/citizen science project that might inspire project ideas, especially for those interested in place based, local projects (MT? AZ?)
Tanya Baker

The Educational Value of Field Trips : Education Next - 0 views

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    Just transferring this article about the value of fieldtrips to a place that I can find it.
Tanya Baker

5 Online Games That Teach Kids the Art of Persuasion | MindShift - 0 views

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    wondering if anyone on this list has played Citizen Science
Tanya Baker

The Mammoth Cometh - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    an article on de-extinction. what?!? its a brave (and exciting) new world
Tanya Baker

The DuPont Challenge Science Essay Competition - 0 views

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    for 7th to 12th grade students, perhaps some of your projects would like to incorporate opportunities for students to write for the public, such as in this challenge, or for other audiences
Tanya Baker

Darwin Online: Introduction to Darwin's Beagle field notebooks (1831-1836) - 0 views

  • [A naturalist] ought to acquire the habit of writing very copious notes, not all for publication, but as a guide for himself. He ought to remember Bacon's aphorism, that Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man; and no follower of science has greater need of taking precautions to attain accuracy; for the imagination is apt to run riot when dealing with masses of vast dimensions and with time during almost infinity. (p.163)
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    science learning and writing, discussion of darwin's field notebooks. 
Tanya Baker

Losing Our Way in the World - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Acquiring these skills wasn’t a matter of armchair learning. It was a process of getting outside, observing and creating a kind of mental scaffolding to organize my observations. I’m a physicist by training, and the process also reminded me that science was about more than laboratories and calculations.
  • the way I viewed the world had palpably changed. The sun looked different, as did the stars. While the ocean didn’t accommodate my “human” need for meaning, a different sense emerged from the wave patterns that conveyed the presence of winds, shoals, coastlines and distant storms.
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    This is a beautiful opinion piece from the NY Times that makes an interesting argument about how/why we learn science and science-y things.
Elyse Eidman-Aadahl

MagLab - Science in Literature - 0 views

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    Lists of recommended literature for children and adults with quality science content from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
Tanya Baker

This Is The Nerdiest, Most Swaggalicious Science Experiment Ever - 1 views

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    description of Science Genius' Science Rap competition.
Lacy Manship

STEAM and Maker Education: Inclusive, Engaging, Self-Differentiating | User Generated E... - 0 views

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    Some useful language in here connecting STEAM and making.
Tanya Baker

Category Archives: Experiences and Museums - 0 views

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    this alchemystudio blog captured my attention. many of the posts i was interested in were about curating and/or presenting things in the world in interesting or unique ways.
Tanya Baker

Sonnet-To Science- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - 0 views

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    This sonnet to science by Edgar Allan Poe made me think of my Intersections community -- How else might we personifiy science?
Lacy Manship

Science Strikes Again. Best American Science Writing - 1 views

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    Most of the links seem to work, but the first one didn't.  I found a pdf version of it here:http://www.skrpartners.com/pdfs/The_truth_about_grit.pdf
Tanya Baker

Why Nothing Is Truly Alive - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    What is life? This is a lovely piece from the NYT about the biological question "what is alive?"
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