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How To Get High-Schoolers Involved In Real Science?
Wellington Grey writes "I'm a physics teacher and have been wondering what ways it's possible to get students to participate in or donate to real science projects. I encourage my students to help out with things like Galaxy Zoo (which has just released a new version) and to get them to install BOINC on their personal computers. Do Slashdotters out there have any other suggestions that would be appropriate for the 11-18 age range? Extra credit if you can think of a way that I can track their progress so that I can give them extra credit."
First how do you know I'm a Christian, I just hate how some people also turn a discussion in that direction (either way). Second how was he on topic, he said "explain science behind "miracles"" Then basically said state that biblical miracles are impossible. Science Teachers need to focus on subjects that are actually provable (evolution, gravity, ...) , you can't prove/disprove something that can't be tested/observed.
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Completely unrelated and off-topic gripe:
The "facility" for this in Seattle is called the Seattle Science Center. It's *not* called the Seattle Museum of Science. Why is that important? Because if you name something a "museum", people expect there to be an actual museum there.
A few years ago, a buddy and I went to the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation, expecting to see, gee I dunno, a museum of the history of the development of computers or something interesting at least. Turns out it was actually a Science Center, and *not* a museum, and a total waste of our money and time. Huge disappointment, there was virtually nothing in it interesting for adults.
Anyway, if it's not a museum, if it's just a place for class field trips to go ride a Segway, then please don't call it a museum. I don't know what you call that type of facility (although Science Center works), but it's not a museum! That is all.
Also, San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation: You suck.
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