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• How to Discuss Vaccines in a Classroom

  Feb 6, 2015 9:00 am654 views

  In light of the measles outbreak in California and the Southwest, are you wondering what role, if any, schools can play in teaching students about vaccines?  Here are a few resources including lesson plans about the science of vaccines, infectious diseases, and modeling an outbreak.

   

• Science Fairy Tales

  Jan 30, 2015 8:45 am44 views

  This post from the PBS NewsHour blog has great advice about the kind of stories to tell your children before bedtime.  Mixing up the nightly story routine with tales of scientists is a wonderful idea.

   

• The Sounds of Space

  Apr 18, 2014 4:30 pm65 views

  If you learned that sound does not travel in a vacuum, like space, then you have your Physics teacher to thank.  This doesn't, however, mean that space is silent.  Plasma makes a cacophany of creepy whistles that at once remind me of bad electronic-music and birds at dawn.