Better teaching: Wonder in Science (and why we hide it)
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious". Einstein |
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Teachers who make physics boring are criminals - Walter Lewin |
Link | YouTube. 4 mins. |
| "If you want to communicate the beauty of a subject, you have to do it in person, and you have to remember that what you are really communicating is passion.” | Link | Italian theoretical physicist, Carlo Rovelli being interviewed by the Telegraph. Teaching in my opinion is not an intellectual thing, it’s an emotional thing. |
| Poem: Naming of parts. | One of my old blogposts on this poem which contrasts a lesson on military ordanance to the beauty of a flower | |
| Storify: Make Science tell a story | Unfortunately you won't find this approach in textbooks. From danielwillingham.com |
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| "The best science teachers, seen as part of this survey, set out to ‘first maintain curiosity’ in their pupils. " | Pleasantly surprising publication from British Inspectorate entitled Ofsted Maintaining curiosity: a survey into science education in schools | |
| Pioneering Scientist Rachel Carson on Wonder, Parenting, and Why It’s More Vital to Feel than to Know | Beautiful post from brainpickings.org " If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder . . . he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in." |
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| " . . . the enjoyment of science is as important as anything else. " | Essay on Feynman from brainpickings.org | |
| "The concept of electron has been stripped to words devoid of stories." | Beautiful post from http://doyle-scienceteach.blogspot.ie | |
| The magic of science - magnetism | YouTube clip from 2veritasium. It's all about passion. | |
| Ten Most Popular Educational YouTube Videos in 2013 | Almost all Science-related | |
| Richard Dawkins - Appetite for Wonder |
Science imagery with voiceover from Dawkins on the importance of the sense of mystery in our world. | |
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