Integrating Eyjafjallajökull
Second fissure, viewed from the north, on 2 April 2010 (from Wikipedia) Current events often generate the teachable moments we’re always seeking in order to strike students’ imagination. The eruption...
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Poetry Speaks Mrs. Z. donated two small books of poetry, The Best Poems Ever and Poetry Speaks (much thanks). The second comes with an audio cd, where many of the poems are read by the authors. Since...
View ArticleRadiolab: The Extinction of the Dinosaurs
RadioLab has an excellent podcast featuring Jay Melosh, a geophysicist who specializes in impact craters, and who advocates the hypothesis that the entire extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs...
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