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Fantastic Links
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Free Tools
Time saving tools, templates and ideas that I have written, trialled and tested, that work. Send in your best templates and ideas for teaching and I'll put them here to share.
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Webquests
So the question is - "How do you use all the information on the web to develop meaningful lessons?"
The answer is
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Creativity & Inspiration
Videos Cleese, Jobs, Mitra, IB
Video2 Chomsky, Gilbert &
What if Money didn't matter ?
Video3 SHOCKING! The real purpose of your life!
FLOW, The SECRET to Happiness, How I fell in love with a FISH.
Video4 How a boy became an ARTIST
DESIGN Thinking
Infinite Thinking MACHINE
Video5 Shane Koyczan: "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful.
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
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Mind Candy
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Newsletters
Ignite The Revolution
What is the Purpose of Education?
3 Elephants in the Room
The Discovery of Planet Krypton
InLove with Fish
Ultimate Classroom
Toxic Workplace
Pi Day - March 14th
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Articles & Seminars
Curriculum What the Indians said
Classroom Magazine Articles
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Product Reviews
ASTROPHYSICS
The Known Universe by AMNH
This is an amazing video, so fabulous for inspiration. Showing light traveling form earth in minutes, years and billlions of years and back again.
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Finding Krypton
As a native of Metropolis, I was delighted to help Superman, who has done so much for my city over all these years. And it's clear that if he weren't a superhero he would have made quite an astrophysicist. Tyson
The red dwarf star designated for having the ability to support a Krypton-like planet is located in the constellation Corvus 27.1 light years from Earth. The star, designated LHS 2520, possesses a red, highly turbulent surface, somewhat cooler and smaller than the Sun. To find it in the night's sky, amateur astronomers and Superman fans can follow these coordinates:
J2000
Right Ascension: 12 hours 10 minutes 5.77 seconds
Declination: -15 degrees 4 minutes 17.9 seconds
Proper Motion: 0.76 arcseconds per year, along 172.94 degrees from due north
After viewing the video, I found myself asking a lot of questions.
How did you do that?
What is the LHS Catalogue?
What is the Hayden Planetarium about, do they have any other cool things there?
Can I look at the night sky with my own telescope?
How do telescopes work?
What is an Interferometer?
If I was Superwoman could I find a home planet for myself?
And here are some of the websites I researched.
Hayden Planetarium
The Hayden Planetarium is excellent images and resource which can be downloaded, educators guides, new discoveries. Take a look at the Digital Universe
LHS Catalogue
LHS Catalogue Find a Star
Dobsonian Telescope
Build your Own Dobsonian Telescope from the Original Sidewalk Astronomers and John Dobson. Join the group. See the videos grind the glass.
How Telecopes Work
From How Stuff Works - great explanation - great info to explore
The Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI) is a long-baseline optical interferometer located approximately 20km west of the town of Narrabri in northern New South Wales, Australia.
NASA VOYAGER 1 ENCOUNTERS NEW REGION IN DEEP SPACE
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar space.
Follow the mission and get new updates and images from Voyager. When I looked Voyager 2 was 15,178,424,125 KM from Earth.
This is an amazing site with great images and video. It also gives details of the contents of the "Golden Record. What is that? Go here and find out.
