science concepts

discrepant events

1) the assignment / readings

2) weighing a car with a ruler ?

3) what's the value of studying discrepant events ?

4) coke float: how do they make a pop can ?

5) fork in the cork: human balancing activities

6) getting the egg into the bottle

7) eggs: where does the 'push' come from ?

8) eggs: more than you every wanted to know about them

9) santa claus - a real discrepancy

10) coat hanger chimes

11) emotional disequilibirum - nags of the day

12) the silo problem

13) the cereal box problem

14) surface area-volume applications

15) how hard do you blow to lift someone ?

16) who invented Polaroid filters ?

17) ripping paper: going against the grain

18) dr. leyden's coke-float article ( K8 magazine: mar '96 )

19) egg in bottle: concepts and misconceptions abound

pendulums

1) big ben chimes

2) the pendulum law

3) pendulums and ess

4) pass the squeeze

5) the dinosaur poem

6) the fizzicks of crashes

7) a pendulum lesson plan

8) a synectic look at seatbelts

9) seatbelts would have never saved this guy !

10) airbags are filled with nitrogen: where does it come from ?

11) airbag information center

what is science

1) sound waves, light waves & earthquake waves: some analogies

2) three circles - locating an earthquake

3) overlay: three circles - locating an earthquake

4) richter scale - power in numbers

5) the myth and science of the full moon

6) scientists are skeptics

7) skepticism & pseudoscience

8) the person in the street in not a skeptic

9) television's image of science and scientists

10) why is science so 'slow' ?

11) what are the rules of the Universe ?

12) nature of science: reasoning -- a priori to empericism

acid rain

1) billy joel sings

2) water recycled poem

3) acid rain: solvent of the world

4) acid rain: an illinois perspective

5) acid rain basics from UKy chemistry lecture

s-t-s: science-technology-society

1) the scope of s-t-s curricula

2) s-t-s: definition and goals

3) do energy savings light bulbs - save energy ?

4) norplant: men controlling womens' bodies ?

5) oregon health care: a little bit for everyone

6) most oil spills are on purpose

7) cleaning your bilge - $$ - more intentional oil spills

population

1) the world's population dilemma

2) women: "taped" to be an engineer or to make babies ?

3) the arithmetic of abortion

4) population: i read about it in the daily news

5) populations: yipee - we've cured cancer and ____

6) what is the usa population right this minute ?

7) how much do babies cost ?

8) when will the population double - and - etc. ?

9) world population & resources

10) people who have children are crazy ? take this test - you may qualify !

11) parenthood: it's just so much FUN

12) what if there were only 100 people on earth?

13) population: every second of every day . . .

14) population: how many people in each age group ?

brain

1) critical thinking: comma, but

2) creative thinking: the OM elementary project

3) creative thinking: career education + economics + language arts

4) critical thinking: a simple square ?

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