Last week, astronomers in Europe announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside of our Solar System. It was discovered this month, and it orbits the star Gliese 581, which is a red dwarf star located a little more than 20 light years from Earth. As a star system, Gliese became interesting to the astronomers in that they found a planet, Gliese 581c, to be located in the “habitable zone” of that stars solar system.… Read more
Monthly Archives: April 2007
The Value of Student-to-Student Exchanges
April 24, 2007
For nearly 20 years, I was involved with a project that started in the 1980′s with people to people exchanges between educators and psychologists in North America with colleagues in the Soviet Union. We made annual visits and conducted seminar-type sessions with schools, universities and research institutes. After several visits, we started an exchange program with educators from schools and research institutes in Moscow and St.… Read more
Silent Springs of Past
April 22, 2007
Today is Earthday, 2007. On today’s CBS News Sunday Morning Program, one of the feature stories was The Legacy of “Silent Spring.” We all now know that Rachel Carson, the author of the 1962 book, Silent Spring wrote the book (with fierce opposition from the pesticide industry) to inform the public the fact (according to Carson) that pesticides were destroying wildlife and endangering the environment.… Read more
The Green Year?
April 21, 2007
Tomorrow is the year 2007 Earth Day, which started in 1970. Could the year 2007 be the Green Year, the tipping year in which government and industry embraced the importance of environmental sustainability just as the public is beginning to accept, and as the environmental movement has represented. Whether or not the environmental movement began in 1962 with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, this year has been marked by profound reports and a Supreme Court Ruling.… Read more
How to teach science education courses real good?
April 15, 2007
Science methods courses ought to be just as interesting and exciting as the best high school geology or physics class. How to teach science education courses to achieve this goal is the subject of this weblog entry.
We’ve often talked about “how to teach science?” with assumption being that we are teaching K-12 students in either an elementary, middle or high school science course.… Read more
Goldilocks Climates: Do You Live in One?
April 3, 2007
In today’s NYTimes, Andrew C. Revkin, the outstanding science reporter and writer, published an article entitled Wealth and Poverty, Drought and Flood: Reports from 4 Fronts in the War on Warming. In it he compares and contrasts four locations: Blantre, Malawi and Perth, Australia, each prone to drought, one in big trouble, the other moving ahead with desalination technology; Dhanaur, India and Maasbommel, the Netherlands, each prone to flooding, one seemingly defenseless, and the other experimenting with floating houses.… Read more
US Supreme Court to EPA: Regulate Emissions
April 2, 2007
The US Supreme Court ruled (5 – 4) that the EPA must regulate emissions from cars, and also took the EPA to task for giving lame reasons why it should NOT regulate emissions. The decision rendered in the case MASSACHUSETTS ET AL. v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ET AL. is an important decision in the ongoing denial by the US Government that humans are impacting global warming, and that CO2 emissions ought to be reduced by 50 – 80% by 2050.… Read more
The Art of Teaching Science is the personal blog of Jack Hassard. I am a writer, a former high school science teacher and Professor Emeritus of Science Education, Georgia State University. The blog reflects my opinions on science education and issues related to educational reform from a progressive science and education philosophy.
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