Month: April 2009

Episode 31 – The AMS Education Program

https://archive.org/download/lab-out-loud/LOL031.mp3   Our guest this week is Jim Brey, Director of the Education Program at the American Meteorological Society.  Jim talks to us about the AMS Education Program, which promotes the teaching of atmospheric, oceanographic, and hydrologic sciences through pre-college teacher training and instructional resource material development. Links: AMS Education Program DataStreme Atmosphere – Links to weather maps and other items […]

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Gilligan's Cell

It was early spring of 1998 and I was student teaching in a 7th grade Life Science class. Now, I’m not a biology person – not certified to teacher it at all – but here I was trying to teach kids about the parts of the cell to the tune of Gilligan’s Island. Desperate times called for desperate measures. The […]

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Episode 30 – Lights, Camera, Sea Turtles!

https://archive.org/download/lab-out-loud/LOL030.mp3   Our guest this week is Dr. Mike Heithaus.  Dr. Heithaus is the director of the Marine Sciences Program at Florida International University in Miami.  He has also worked with National Geographic’s Crittercam, and you might recognize his name as the author of Holt Biology (the cheetah book). Dr. Heithaus talks to us about his research, his interest in […]

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