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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities

Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.

Science and a Sense of Place:
Learning Where We are Located in the World

(July 24-August 4, 2006)

Summary of/Reactions to Day 2:

"THE COSMOLOGY OF SPACE" and
"EXPERIMENTS WITH MICROWAVES"

with Liz ("heavy sister") McCormack



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Key (Philosophical) Points that emerged from talking w/ Liz: Key Points that emerged from your reflecting afterwards
  • on the connections between the "universal" and the "local,"
  • between Liz's presentations and possible applications in your classrooms,
  • on the advantages of having your students go exploring,
    to gather data on a "real" (i.e. as-yet-unanswered) question,
    vs. having them search out multiple ways of finding a "right" answer:
How much, indeed?
"Computing, Networking and Space"--
J.D. Doughtery, Haverford College Computer Science
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