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Johnson’s 8th graders are gathering for art class. They collect their pastels and charcoals, their graphite sticks and Strathmore sketchpads. But today, instead of the fake-fruit basket that’s been collecting dust since summertime, Ms. Johnson pulls out a biology textbook. This scenario may sound far-flung, but it’s just what American school kids need, if you ask the scientists, artists, educators, business leaders, and policy makers gathering this week in Washington DC for The Art of Science Learning. At Seed, we’ve long been devoted to integrating the arts and the sciences, to probing where the soft edges of craft meet the hard lines of computation.
On Meaningful Observation John Maeda Adding art and design to science education would put a bit of humanity back into the innovation engine and lead to the most meaningful kind of progress. Newspaper Seedling Packs. Thank you for visiting Little House in the Suburbs.
Please subscribe and you'll get great simple living tips and how-to articles delivered to your inbox, for free! You know those cute little six-packs of veggies you pick up at the garden center? By wrapping TL’s mini-pots around a SQUARE spice container instead of a round one, you can make your own. 1. A Brilliant List of Science Books for People Who Want Their Minds Blown. Wow, I Can Compost That? 33 Stunning Photos Of Our Amazing Planet Earth Taken By A Guy In Space. Live Green - Historic Cookbooks Shed Light On Sustainable Past. As we study the ways past generations lived, farmed and ate, one thing is for sure...
American has been blessed with clever and thoughtful cooks. And many beautiful, wonderful, educational cookbooks, too. Where would we be without the cookbook? From The Virginia Housewife, first published in 1838, to Julia Child’s recently rediscovered Mastering The Art Of French Cooking to Top Chef: The Quickfire Cookbook, our love of food and all things food related consumes us. But there is also much to be learned from studying the food prejudices and opinions of the past. Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project is a marvelous treasure trove of practical information, interesting recipes and an enlightening look at how America’s attitude toward food and agriculture has changed - and stayed the same - over the last 234 years. The cookbooks date back as far as 1798, and include descriptions and measurements that today’s reader probably wouldn’t even recognize. Share this with Your Friends.
Black Solar Cell Absorbs 99.7% of All Light. © Natcore Technology Scientists over at Natcore Tech have created what is now the "blackest" solar cell to date.
While that might sound as trivial as creating a white iPhone, this is a fairly huge advancement in the world of solar technology. With an average reflectance of 0.3%, these black silicon wafers absorb more light than any other out there, which means more of the sun's energy is actually converted into energy. By the way, reflectance is the ratio of reflected light to that of which actually hits the surface. So a reflectance of 0.3% means that only 0.3% of all light is reflected from the solar cell's surface and that the remaining 99.7% is absorbed.
This breakthrough makes industry standards such as anti-reflective coatings now obsolete. Did you know? Technology. Maathai's Story of Humming Bird. She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite... Hurting... Worth Dying for. Story of Stuff. The Story of Stuff, originally released in December 2007, is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the Stuff in your life forever. Building a Two-Can Bioreactor.
Purpose Two-can bioreactors are designed to be used as small-scall indoor composting units for families, and for composting as an educational tool in the classroom.
Materials. SproutRobot! - StumbleUpon. Elementary Science Education Journals, Articles &Books - NSTAs Science &Children. Guidelines for Classroom Safety This document should be given to students at the beginning of the school year to help them understand their role in ensuring a safe and productive science experience.
Download Elementary Science Safety Acknowledgment Form A Year of Inquiry All issues of Science and Children include inquiry, but we took it a step further with this volume—an entire year devoted to inquiry! Follow along as we explore what scientists do and then progress through process skills, notebooking, posing questions, collecting data, choosing investigations, and sharing and assessing the results of inquiry. Take me there Reward Yourself! You could win a trip to the NSTA National Conference on Science Education. Take me there Early Years Blog The Early Years Blog offers resources and conversation on PreK to 2 science. Take me there Award-winning Lesson Plans. Hands-on Science : Grade Seven - Jennifer Lawson. Epic driftwood: Monster tree washes ashore.