Hands on Science Learning

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday September 8, 2002 @09:00PM from the userful-ways-to-learn dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Now that school is starting up, the perpetual challenge of making learning interesting and fun is back. The YesICan! Science project at York University has tried to help by creating activities for students which involve real-time (or recent) science experiments. For example, the current activity involves measuring the size of the moon using measurements of the solar position from a Russian nuclear icebreaker on its trek to the North Pole. Another had a webcast from the International Space Station. Are there other such resources out there to help bring real science into the classroom?"

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Measuring the size of the moon, eh? by tRoll+with+Butter · 2002-09-08 21:16 · Score: 1, Funny

For example, the current activity involves measuring the size of the moon

I know this one website that's got a FULL moon your can measure... Darnest thing is, the firewall at the school won't let it rise.

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Dr Evil was: Re:Should school be fun? by Bazzargh · 2002-09-08 23:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Quite right. The true purpose of science is as a tool for evil overlords, not as kids entertainment.

Anyway, every kid knows that the guys in white coats have a reduced life expectancy due to explosions in undersea bases. What kind of career choice is that?