We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with AZA, a network of more than 6,000 zoo and aquarium professionals and organizations world-wide, with members in all fifty states and in (among other countries) Hong Kong, Argentina, and the Bahamas.
Do you lie awake at night wondering about the differences between frogs and toads? We do. We're so excited about our new hands-on frog and toad activities from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums that we've become consumed with all things amphibian.
It’s no surprise that Jim Stofan knows rockets. He does, after all, work at NASA. But you might not predict that Stofan would wax eloquent about projectiles powered by everything from rubberbands to antacid tablets.
Let’s say you’re a fan of pickles. You like them on pastrami sandwiches or in tuna salad, and you love them in hands-on science. So of course you’ve field-tested the Make a Pickle Battery activity and are thrilled with the Kosher Dill Current stop action animation video that brings that activity to life.
Want to show the world how you do hands-on science?
Or maybe you have some modifications of a SMILE activity that you’d like to demonstrate, like the mods SMILE user Michael made to the Magnus Glider during the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) meeting in Hawaii.
Here's how to add your video to SMILE:
Sherry Hsi, SMILE Principal Investigator and Research Director at UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science, talks about why howtosmile.org decided to create its own digital videos of hands-on activities and also make it possible for users to upload their own videos.
Geography Awareness Week (November 14 – 20) is here! Launched in 1987 by presidential proclamation, the weeklong celebration promotes geoliteracy in the United States.
We should probably focus on the promoting and hold off on the celebrating.
With free tools like Google Earth and mapbuilder so widely available, these days it seems that everyone’s a mapmaker.
On November 5, 2008, a few days after Barack Obama was elected president, Daniel Edelson wrote an open letter to the man who would soon occupy the White House.
