Portable Planetarium

In a gymnasium in a school in Long Island City, a bouncy-house planetarium! The idea is brilliant and the show was excellent. (Narrated by Galaxy Quest actor Tim Allen).

Students asked questions.
The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas
Milky Way
Tim Allen talks impact crater on the moon
Tim on exploring on the moon
Getting nauseous.

Sketching Science at AMNH: Art

I spent two days at the American Museum of Natural History, learning how to incorporate sketching into science. Here are some sketches.

Art

Sketching Science at AMNH: Animals

I spent two days at the American Museum of Natural History, learning how to incorporate sketching into science. Here are some sketches.

Animals

Squid in a long shell

Sketching Science at AMNH: Plants

I spent two days at the American Museum of Natural History, learning how to incorporate sketching into science. Here are some sketches.

Plants

Model of Big Dried Leaf, NY State
Back of Dried Leaf

Sketching Science at AMNH: Bugs

I spent two days at the American Museum of Natural History, learning how to incorporate sketching into science. Here are some sketches.

Bugs

Citrus weevil
Butterfly

Sketching Science at AMNH: Rocks

I spent two days at the American Museum of Natural History, learning how to incorporate sketching into science. Here are some sketches.

Day One

Fluorapophyllite

Sketching Science at AMNH, part 2

I spent two full days at the American Museum of Natural History, learning how to incorporate sketching into STEM (STEAM?)

Here are some thoughtful slides. I like the “Learning Agreements” slide, which reminds me of our own meetings norms slide.

Sketching Science at AMNH, part 1

Not the science of sketching (although I did learn some useful techniques) but sketching scientific stuff, like rocks and bugs, at the American Museum of Natural History, for two full days!

They provided each participant with

Strathmore Drawing pad (to keep);

 

Staedtler Mars Lumograph black pencil set (six pencils) (to keep);

Prismacolor Premier colored pencils (12 pencils) (to use)

Pentel Arts oil pastels (50 sticks) (to use).

We learned about sketching and then went to different areas of the museum to sketch.

Subway Stalactites and Stalagmites!

Yes it is true. On the F train at Bergen Street. The ones dripping down from the top are stalactites (quick trick: the “c” is for “ceiling”) and the ones growing up from the bottom are stalagmites (the “g” is for “ground”). Whether they are actually limestone, or even calcium-based, is anyone’s guess.

Sidewalk Science

Everything I learned about vaccines I learned from the street. (The street outside Stuyvesant high school, that is).

 

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