http://www.netvouz.com/tag/activity?feed=rss Bookmarks tagged with "activity" on Netvouz http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/01/04/keri-smith-wreck-this-box/ Activity Books for Grown-Ups | Brain Pickings mono_loi Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:18:01 GMT http://undsci.berkeley.edu/lessons/scaling_solar_system.html Understanding science lessons. Modified version of a typical solar system scale model activity (often called Solar System on a String) in order to emphasize one of the ways that scientists use models. See this example of such an activity. pdboyer Sun, 15 May 2011 17:28:01 GMT http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/content/kingdom-of-the-blue-whale-3302/tagging-tracking-interactive/ Tracking the Blue Whale. Interactive activity where you try to tag the blue whale with sonic dart tags. Get 3 tries and then have to go elsewhere. Pretty realistic interface and frustration! ;) pdboyer Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:52:46 GMT http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-stuff-cleaner.html?contactID=159101579&gwkey=FSSF8P1RHI Can innovations in materials science help clean up our world? In "Making Stuff: Cleaner," David Pogue explores the rapidly developing science and business of clean energy and examines alternative ways to generate it, store it, and distribute it. Is hydrogen the way to go? What about lithium batteries? Does this solve an energy problem or create a new dependency? Pogue investigates the latest developments in bio-based fuels and in harnessing solar energy for our cars, homes, and industry in a program full of the stuff of a sustainable future. pdboyer Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:32:51 GMT http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/mys.box.html Students manipulate sealed "mystery" boxes and attempt to determine the inner structure of the boxes which contain a moving ball and a fixed barrier or two. The nature and sources of uncertainty inherent in the process of problem-solving are experienced. The uncertainty of the conclusions is reduced by student collaboration. PRINCIPAL CONCEPT Scientific knowledge is fundamentally uncertain. pdboyer Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:58:38 GMT http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/falsasum.html Little deceptive problem stories are presented to the class, and students are challenged to solve each problem by asking only yes/no questions. The key is for students to recognize what the False Assumption is that makes the solution tricky, and that many common problems are difficult to solve because we tend to assume a particular paradigm. Things are not always what they seem! Science is a way to work around or through those false assumptions. PRINCIPAL CONCEPT Scientific knowledge is contingent and subject to modification. ASSOCIATED CONCEPTS Science contains an element of uncertainty. ASSESSABLE OBJECTIVES Students will.... 1. related insights from this activity to their personal lives. 2. be unable to solve thought problems because of false a pdboyer Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:51:12 GMT http://www.angelfire.com/biz/WLAW/anagram.html Create anagrams to unscramble in class. Good vocabulary refresher if a meaning activity is added pdboyer Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:29:26 GMT http://edmall.gsfc.nasa.gov/inv99Project.Site/Pages/trl/inv5-3.html Earth System Science activity pdboyer Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:18:00 GMT http://maximum-maximorum.com/2009/01/21/nootropics-smart-drugs-for-training-and-recovery/ Nootropics are low toxicity ‘smart drugs’ that boost brain activity and memory without having deleterious effects on the nervous system. Nootropics are substances that increase the effectiveness of the brain ...whether by healing the brain of whatever may be causing problems....or by augmenting or making the brain more effective. They can improve learning and memory both short and long term. Brain Eddie Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:12:46 GMT http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/rosie/skill_pre.html Literacy interactive in which topic is selected and then the topic sentence (or idea) is clicked. If you're right, you get to uncover tiles that lead to solution of a riddle. Get to uncover number of tiles relative to tries it took to get it. Lots of science topics. Interactive from Harcourt School Publishers Interactive Whiteboard pdboyer Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:00:24 GMT