Great episode of This Week in Science and Education this week. The panel talks to Dennis McCormac from the Ontario Genomics Institute about the intersection of science and art and how to use one to inspire the other.
T-WiSE #77
Higgs Boson. Now You Know.
Confused by just what all the fuss is over the Large Hadron Collider and the attempt to find the Higgs Boson? You’re not alone! But this cool video will help!
Steps to Inquiry
Here’s a short video where Rick explains how to use the Steps to Inquiry posters from the Smarter Science framework to get students developing their own experiments. It’s a good starter or refresher for teachers learning to implement an inquiry based approach in their class.
TWISE at SCCAO
Several of the members of the SCCAO executive had the opportunity to be on a panel discussion about safety in the science classroom that was recorded for the weekly podcast, This Week in Science and Education. Colin, Rick, Sean and Christine had a discussion that ranged from teacher responsibilities to Ministry of Education supports for safety in the science classroom. Check out the recording below, or visit the VROC site for info about TWiSE. you can also subscribe to the weekly TWiSE podcast via iTunes.
This also marks the beginning of a partnership between SCCAO and VROC as all future episodes of TWiSE will be presented in association with SCCAO, and will have some wrapper activities that go along with the episodes.
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Mini Conference November 8 – Livestream
Here’s the embedded Livestream player for viewing what we can stream during the day from our mini-conference. Check the Twitter stream for updates.
sccao on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
Access to the Royal Society Achives
Ever wanted to dig into old science? I mean, really old science. How about the first scientific paper ever published by Newton? Or the writing of a young man named Charles Darwin? Well, now you can. The Royal Society has announced that it will now allow free access on the web to all of its historical articles. There are over 60,000 science articles there waiting to be explored. What a great resource to dive into!
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Mini Conference Agenda Posted
Agenda for the SCCAO Mini-Conference has been posted on the Mini-Conference registration page. Please click the link above on the menu to access it to register. You can also click SCCAO Mini – conf agenda to access the agenda directly.
See you in November!
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Mentors
Here is a fascinating video about how Carl Sagan acted as a mentor to Neil deGrasse Tyson. Yes, THAT Neil deGrasse Tyson. Do we model this with our students? Do we have that lasting impact?
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18 Things You Should Know About Genetics
This short video is a good introduction to many of the concepts that Ontario science students need to understand to grasp the study of genetics. It would make a good intro or review for the subject.
18 Things You Should Know About Genetics from David Murawsky on Vimeo.
Particle faster than light?
A team of physicists working at CERN in Europe has announced a possibly revolutionary discovery. It’s being reported that they’ve found evidence that neutrino’s can travel faster than light. When you look at the data, they found that when sending a beam of neutrino’s from one site to another, they arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than they should have. While 60 nanoseconds many not seem like a lot, it’s enough to make the science community ask some pretty big questions.
The best part is that this experiement, while incredibly complex, is also wonderfully simple, and you can discuss this a science class in high school, and with a quick math example look at their data, and see for yourself what the discovery means. It’s basically a v=d/t problem.
While we don’t have faster than light starships yet, this new result may open up a whole new era in physics. Or it may be explained with some other, simpler reason. Science will help to puzzle it out. That’s why science rules. 
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