From: Gigi Kruse-Silva (gigi@bstreetstudio.com)
Date: Fri Dec 03 2004 - 08:26:20 PST
Message-ID: <20041203162620.10875.qmail@web61206.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:26:20 -0800 (PST) From: Gigi Kruse-Silva <gigi@bstreetstudio.com> Subject: Re: Pinhole Digest #1639 - 12/03/04
I use Karen's activities for my sensory unit in Human
Biology! The kids love the activities especially the
"Your Nose Knows" and the "Merry-Go-Round" Illusion.
They are easy to prep and fun to do. I had a student
come in yesterday excited for the day's activities
because he has been enjoying them so much--and he is
the student who tends to dose off in class.
Hope this helps!
--Gigi Kruse-Silva
Carlmont High School
--- Pinhole Listserv <pinhole@exploratorium.edu>
wrote:
> Pinhole Digest #1639 - Friday, December 3, 2004
>
> mini-lesson plan help
> by "Hugh" <hugh@apocalypse.org>
> Creative writing ideas in science
> by "Treena Joi" <tjoi@pvsd.net>
> Re: pinhole mini-lesson plan help
> by "Paul Doherty"
> <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
> Re: pinhole mini-lesson plan help
> by "Karen Kalumuck"
> <karenk@exploratorium.edu>
> unclear color name
> by "Paul Doherty"
> <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
> light antenna
> by "Paul Doherty"
> <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
>
>
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> Subject: mini-lesson plan help
> From: "Hugh" <hugh@apocalypse.org>
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:52:39 -0800 (PST)
>
> Hi all,
> I need some help here. I need to come up with an
> interesting, interactive
> 5 minute (max) mini-lesson for a teaching credential
> class. I am
> particularly uninspired at the moment and can't
> think of anything. It
> needs to be highly interactive, so a game of some
> sort would work. What
> have you done that works well? The audience for this
> can be any grade
> level. Think of warm up activities and ice-breakers
> that you've tried.
>
> Thank you for any suggestions,
> Hugh Lovette
>
>
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>
> Subject: Creative writing ideas in science
> From: "Treena Joi" <tjoi@pvsd.net>
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:08:03 -0800
>
> I just went to a writing workshop and loved some of
> the creative
> writing ideas I heard about.
>
> One was called RAFT ... with the acronym standing
> for:
> Role Audience Format and Topic
>
> A sample assignment for 6th grade geology would be:
>
> Role - Seismic body waves, P & S-waves
>
> Audience - the crust, mantle, inner core, and outer
> core (in series),
> and maybe the seismograph station
>
> Format - Travel postcards
>
> Topic - Earth Structure/ Earthquakes; Evidence for
> our current theories
>
> Enjoi
>
> Treena Joi
> Corte Madera School
> Portola Valley School District
>
> treenajoi@gmail.com
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: pinhole mini-lesson plan help
> From: "Paul Doherty" <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:54:50 -0800
>
> Karen K has a great activity on proprioception.
> It's in her Human Body Book.
>
> Touch your fingers together without looking, then do
> variations, touch a
> wiggling finger versus a still one.
>
> Paul D
>
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: pinhole mini-lesson plan help
> From: "Karen Kalumuck" <karenk@exploratorium.edu>
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:09:00 -0800
>
> Thanks for the plug, Paul! Another one from the
> book is "The Nose
> Knows" where different flavors of life savers are
> the material. Have
> the experimenter hold their nose and close their
> eyes. Give them a
> life saver, but don't tell them the color/flavor.
> Have them put it
> in their mouth -- they may now open their eyes, but
> not their noses!
> They focus on what they experience in their
> mouths.....and after
> awhile open their noses and describe what they
> experience. Always a
> dramatic difference, and a good lesson on
> taste/smell connection, and
> even some chemistry!
>
> The whole text of this one is on the web, as sample
> pages from the book:
>
> http://www.exploratorium.edu/ti/human_body/
>
> Good Luck!
>
> ---Karen
> --
> Karen E. Kalumuck, Ph.D.
> Biologist/Educator
> Exploratorium Teacher Institute
> 3601 Lyon St.
> San Francisco, CA 94123
> 415-561-0388
> FAX 415-561-0307
>
>
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>
> Subject: unclear color name
> From: "Paul Doherty" <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:18:41 -0800
>
> I have a friend who bought a white van. The car
> manufacturer's official name
> of the color was "Monochromatic White".
>
>
>
>
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>
> Subject: light antenna
> From: "Paul Doherty" <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:24:45 -0800
>
> You've seen radio antennas on cars, and transmitting
> antennas too.
>
> In the November Physics Today scientists at Boston
> College have made
> antennas for vivble light.
>
> They grew the antennas as carbon nanotubes. 50 nm
> wide and a few hundred nm
> long.
>
> The antennas do not detect light polarized
> perpendicular to the nanotube.
>
> Paul D
>
>
>
>
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