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Hutchinson Travel Bloggers Fam
I am writing this from the fair city of Hutchinson Kansas. Progressive leadership in the community is responsible for organizing a tour for travel bloggers to visit and write about the exciting things...
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Federal Aid to Education
This spring I have been researching about the origins of federal aid to education—the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958 in the Eisenhower Presidential Library. If you care about No Child...
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Austin Bat Colony
I arrived in Austin, Texas this week for the American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE) conference. It is interesting that an unintended consequence of engineering design, the Congress Street...
View ArticleApollo Astronaut Describes Earth From Space
Emily and I had the amazing opportunity last week to meet Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 astronaut at the Kansas Cosmosphere. Charlie describes the experience of viewing the entire Earth at 16,000 miles from...
View ArticleApollo Documents Digitized
Anyone who does any kind of research knows how far we have to go towards digitizing printed collections of documents. Last spring I did a research project at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and was...
View ArticleFun With Science Day
I awoke early this morning because today is the 2nd Annual Fun With Science Day in Clyde, KS. Last year, on the Saturday before the kids started back to school, we held the first science fun day in...
View ArticleScience and Religion
Well, it’s been too long since I last posted to this blog. Things get a little hectic at the end of a semester, especially when I am both teaching and a student in a class. Actually, my Christmas break...
View ArticleDo Teachers Destroy Artists?
The problem with schools is that they are designed and operated by people who liked school. It is a sad thing, but schools tend to value certain talents and abilities over others. I am amazed that some...
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The Authentic Learning of Significance
Deborah using a microscope © 2011 Rebecca Skloot – used with permission In this photo we see Deborah, a middle aged woman, peering into a microscope at a cell culture in a university laboratory with...
View ArticleCombining Science & Art in “Evolution”
This animation about evolution is the best combination of science and art that I’ve seen in a very long time. Creator Tyler Rhodes has captured the essence of good science education by tapping in to...
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