by msander | Oct 26, 2018 | Gr. 11-12 Physics
When Ryan spins a bike wheel, nothing crazy happens. But something weird happens when he flips it over – watch and learn as he shows and explains...
by msander | Oct 19, 2018 | Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Physics
What’s Going On? When a magnet is moved by a coil of wires, you can induce an electric current. This is the principle behind how most of the electricity is produced in the world; it’s just a question of where you get the energy to move the magnets. Every time a magnet...
by msander | Oct 11, 2018 | Gr. 11-12 Physics
Basketball is a fast-moving game of improvisation, contact and, ahem, spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Rajiv Maheswaran and his colleagues are analyzing the movements behind the key plays of the game, to help coaches and players combine intuition with new data....
by msander | Oct 11, 2018 | Gr. 11-12 Physics
Dr. Massa and the great Orbax solve a projectile motion problem. Joanne is a member of the STAO secondary committee. Please share your cool teaching ideas. Email them to staoblog@stao.org ...
by msander | Oct 7, 2018 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Physics
We’re always learning more about far away galaxies and exoplanets, but we still have some pretty big mysteries hanging out here in the solar system, like why Venus spins the way it does. Hosted by: Reid...
by msander | Oct 5, 2018 | Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Physics
Teacher’s guide This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize Lesson about a 2018 Nobel Prize. This lesson package consists of four parts: a slide show with a speaker’s manuscript for the teacher, a student worksheet, two short videos and this teacher’s guide....
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