Check out this beautiful visualisation by facebook with explanation here There used to be a great app called Friend Wheel which showes all of your facebook friends and draws lines to show who they are also friends with, at the time of writing the app is not working on Facebook but we’ll keep an eye Full Article…
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Podcast some patterns
You can use podcasting or slidecasting as a way to create and share patterns. Use random.org or similar to generate a list of at least 20 random numbers, use one number per slide and create a presentation, be creative! Add music and upload the results to youtube or vimeo or slideshare. You can do the Full Article…
The Human Race
Age: 12+ yrs Overview: By investigating the most current scientific material regarding human evolution, learners are asked to use their researching, predictive and reporting skills to create a simple web-based thesis on the ‘likely’ future stages of human evolution. Description: The teacher must decide how much initial information to provide, but it’s probably a good Full Article…
Science Comics
We all know how much children like doing hands-on science and finding out for themselves how things work. Sadly, we also know that writing up their experiments according to very rigid criteria is guaranteed to dampen their natural curiosity and turn science into a chore. Nic has come up with a novel way of recording Full Article…
How big is it? (Line and path maths)
Estimating is an essential skill in maths and science and one that is actually threatened by the continued use of calculators and digital measuring instruments. Turn the tables and use the Line and Path measurement tools on Google Earth (click on the ruler on the top bar) to estimate distances and areas. Find a regular Full Article…
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