Science Pages
I'm slowly moving all my web pages into my WordPress blog formatted style pages (they'll all be indexed for my search box). Below is a list of my web pages related to science education.
Pages generally of interest to students
- A video clip of ice skating to analyze conservation of angular momentum.
- Optics
- Sunset observations lab
- Waves
Pages generally of interest to teachers
Curriculum Mapping in the High School Physics Class (as presented at the National AAPT meeting on July 28, 2009).- Using TI graphing calculators in a science classroom (as presented at the NorCal/Nevada AAPT meeting on November 9, 2008).
- "Penny Diffusion" lab
- Environmental Science (includes AP ES textbook recommendations)
- Levers and the Human Body worksheets
- www.EmbracingChallenge.net has great teacher resources, in addition to a great archive of several NSTA email lists.
- "Physics on the Subway"
- Speed of Sound Labs
- Tools for science and science teaching
- Fisheye camera in a globe, a way of seeing solar movement. This project is under developmenet, feel free to watch the development.
General interest science pages
- Earth Science pages and links
- Climate Change (aka Global Warming) positions of science organizations
- A great site on Daylight Saving Time
- NASA J-Track 3D satellite simulator, includes over 500 satellites showing their real-time position, or you can speed it up.
- Satellite image stitching using Google Earth.
- Solar Calendar, Berkeley Marina. Set up a planetarium program on your computer using the Solar Calendar as the background for the stars.
- Clear Sky Chart for Berkeley, CA for the next two days.