How Are We Preparing Students to Be Tomorrow's Innovators? | Suzie Boss. Follow the discussion on Empowering Education Leaders to Innovate on Wednesday Jan. 30 at 3pm PST. According to the just-released Gallup-HOPE index for 2012, developing a world-changing invention is an aspiration shared by 42 percent of youth in grades 5-12. That's good news. Given the scale of challenges facing us--in our own backyards and around the globe--it's easy to see that we're going to need every good idea the next generation has to offer. What are schools doing to prepare today's students to be tomorrow's innovators?
I recently went on a hunt for schools that are serious about teaching students to innovate. I found many promising examples (described in Bringing Innovation to School). There's plenty we can learn from these "skunk works" for a new kind of teaching and learning. Given the right conditions, students eagerly step up to the challenge of becoming not only better thinkers, but also makers, doers, and problem solvers. Are you willing to take risks? National Fossil Day - Kids Stuff. HHMI's BioInteractive. Science Friday. Feb. 12, 2015 Is Pedigree What It's Cracked Up To Be? Data distilled 80,000 individual dog profiles revealed that outside of the show ring, there's a lot of behavioral variation within any given breed. dog breed behavior myths stereotypes aggression serpell dogs canine aggressive behavior Jan. 29, 2015 Face Time We can make split-second judgments about someone's personality and character without even consciously seeing their face. face judgement facial perception social cues neurology psychology faces jon freeman NYU mouse-tracking Jan. 22, 2015 Behind-the-Scenes at the Explorers Club Tour the unique artifacts, including a yeti scalp and 4-tusked elephant, collected by Explorers Club members during research expeditions over the last century. explorers club book club exploration museum flag Jan. 08, 2015 SciArts: Exoplanet Art Artist Helena Kauppila imagines and paints her vision of what it would be like stand on the surface of another planet and look up at the stars. exoplanet art sciarts Dr.
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The Earth's atmosphere is mostly composed of nitrogen. Oxygen makes up just 21 percent of the air we breathe. Carbon dioxide, argon, ozone, water vapor and other gasses make up a tiny portion of it, as little as 1 percent. These gasses probably came from several processes as the Earth evolved and grew as a planet. But some scientists believe that the Earth's atmosphere would never have contained the oxygen we need without plants.
Plants (and some bacteria) release oxygen during photosynthesis, the process they use to change water and carbon dioxide into sugar they can use for food. Photosynthesis is a complex reaction. 6CO2 + 12H2O + Light -> C6H12O6 + 6O2+ 6H2O In other words, while we inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, plants inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. Without the sun to feed plants (and the plants to release oxygen), we might not have breathable air. Obviously, plants are important, but not just because they give us food to eat and oxygen to breathe. Science.