Can Comics Improve Pre-College Science Education?
As more learning occurs online and at home with the global pandemic, keeping students engaged in learning about science is a challenge. In this post, undergraduate student Simon Rodriguez explores recent research on how comics might be helpful in increasing student...
You Should be Watching: Cells at Work
Okay - we're totally behind the curve here, but we should talk about Cells at Work. It showed up on Netflix last September and probably flew under the radar of a lot of the adult Netflix audience, but probably not its otaku fanbase. Apologies to said fanbase who are...
COVID Curriculum: Resources and Ideas for Teaching STEM in Pandemic World
One way or another, school will start again this fall. But I’m not here to talk about that this time. As a public school STEM teacher (chemistry and physics), I’ve seen the plans for schools to re-start in fall, from the most magical and optimistic to the more...
Using Comics and Superheroes to Teach Math
Teaching math is an art. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. I did it for 32 years (I recently retired) and I’m here to tell you that if you’re in front of a classroom in the old-fashioned way, the “sage on the stage” as it were, you’d better have a rhythm like a...
EVENT: Picture a Scientist Discussion with TSO & a/perture Cinema
We here at The Science Of are thrilled to announce we’ve teamed with our local independent theater, a/perture cinema for a live discussion about Picture a Scientist with three local scientists. An Official Selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, the synopsis of...
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