How about a “platy-lope” – an animal that is half platypus and half antelope? This week, have your students create a new species, and write about and draw a picture of their animal. Have them examine the qualities of different species, and combine them into what they think would be the most adaptable survivable animal. […]
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The Furry Lobster
After 10-year effort that included icy waters diving, visual detecting robots into deep-black ocean depths, elaborate spy networks of microphones, scientists unveiled the results of finding 6,000 new ocean species. The 2010 Census of Marine Life, designed to catalog what lives in the ocean, where
Continue readingEarth May have a Shorter Day
The 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake released so much energy that it may have slightly shortened the length of the Earth’s day, a NASA scientist says… …The JPL computer model suggests that the length of the Earth day may have been shortened by 1.26 millionths of a second. The change in the length of the day came […]
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Did you know that playing alpha-wave music in a classroom such as Baroque, Eastern Asian, or hemi-sync combinations enhances the ability of a student to learn, study, absorb and assimilate information? It is noted by many brain scientists today say that literally anyone can have a Genius Brain if they have the proper nutrition and […]
Continue readingTeaching Space and the Solar System
Here is a new post today: What are some fun, exciting ways to teach space to first graders? make them all create the solar system, for instance. one kid´s the sun, and give everyone a role, using all the elements in the system, and tell them what they are made of and their characteristics… and […]
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New post at The Ideas in Teaching Solar System. Solar system may be interesting for some students but it can also be a boring subject for the others. It is the problems of every teacher who wants to teach solar system. To make the students get the enthusiasm in the space and solar … continue […]
Continue reading10 Tips for teaching Elementary Science
Everyone knows that teaching clouds and the weather is not difficult, just boring. However, you can make it interesting by showing your students how clouds are formed. What you will need is a jar, a match, tape, black paper, a flash light, and a small bag of ice. What you will do is fill the […]
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