Archive for the ‘Early Childhood’ Category

Latest Virtual Field Trip: Look Up at the Skies!

Friday, April 8th, 2011

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This month, we invite you to look up!

milky way

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Join us on a virtual tour of planetariums to see what the sky brings, together with a new activity  on Sky and Weather from the latest edition of our Early Science Explorations module.

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Click here to download the Sky & Weather Field Trip!

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Science Companion Virtual Field Trips are a “Science in Real Life” series from Science Companion, paring a hyperlinked PDF lesson from one of our modules with a place or current event.

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File this under cool…

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

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We thought this image of the precise moment that a bubble pops was marvelous!

For more about bubbles, check out our early childhood module, Rainbows, Color and Light!

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Science Future – “Eyeballs in the Fridge”

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

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Here’s some food for thought about a federally funded study looking at the early science experiences of scientists and graduate students.  Click here for the Education Week blog entry.

Check out Jacqueline Kelly’s The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate for a (fictional) look a young scientist in the making in 1899 Texas.