http://www.stevespangler.com Making Science Education Fun Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:00:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en © alyssa@stevespangler.com () alyssa@stevespangler.com() 1440 Making Science Education Fun alyssa@stevespangler.com No no http://www.stevespangler.com/stevespangler/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://www.stevespangler.com 144 144 http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2007/04/08/500-soda-geysers-at-nsta-convention/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2007/04/08/500-soda-geysers-at-nsta-convention/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:28:33 +0000 Steve http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2007/04/01/500-soda-geysers-at-nsta-convention/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2007/04/08/500-soda-geysers-at-nsta-convention/feed/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2005/08/28/teaching-teachers-to-do-magic/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2005/08/28/teaching-teachers-to-do-magic/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:05:13 +0000 Steve http://www.stevespangler.com/?p=112 http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2005/08/28/teaching-teachers-to-do-magic/feed/ 00:01:01 A teacher can be an amazing teacher. In science workshops and seminars, I teach teachers how to do magic. I grew up in a family of ... A teacher can be an amazing teacher. In science workshops and seminars, I teach teachers how to do magic. I grew up in a family of professional magicians, but my 13 years in the classroom didn't involve a lot of magic other than science magic, like water floating upside down in a glass, or a ping pong ball floating on a stream of air. Teachers are aware of how important it is to teach content. Sometimes they need to stop for a moment and learn how to be a presenter of science. I teach you how to put the coin in your hand and make it disappear. It's a technique used by magicians to grab our attention. It excites us. Makes us want to know how it works. And it can be worked into the Five E's: it excites the kids, makes them want to explore, engages them in learning and experiment in the process and, finally, evaluates their learning. And it can be as simple as a little experiment with the vanishing coin. Listen to my podcast to hear how teachers can do magic in the classroom (File size is 0.8 MB) (Show length 3 minutes 20 seconds) Educating,,Podcasts alyssa@stevespangler.com no No