August 3, 2014 at 10:15 pm
Thursday was a busy day finishing our rockets. Everyone finished their Estes rockets and most people started their bottle rockets. Thursday afternoon Glynn Holt talked to us about his experiences at NASA and what it was like to go through the astronaut training program as a Mission Specialist and the details of his experiment which […]
August 2, 2014 at 10:42 pm
I began the day discussion air flow, air foils, and the phenomena of lift. Using some simulations from NASA we examined how air flowed over an air foil to create the lift which allows planes to fly. After my explanation using the computer simulation, we had a demonstration of the Wind Tunnel by Aaron Y. […]
July 29, 2014 at 11:21 am
As we were building our airplanes today our mood music was actually listening the Boston Logan Control Tower. You can listen to ATC streaming live here. In the morning, many of our students were busy finishing their Cadet Balsa planes. Others started building some more advanced White Wing Biplanes. We also visited the Boston University […]
July 28, 2014 at 11:22 am
Today we started out building White Wing airplanes. White Wings are specially designed paper airplanes, usually with a balsa wood fuselage. They have been engineered for amazing flight and when launched with a rubber band can stay aloft for over a minute! We built the White Wing Skycub which you can order online. The […]
April 6, 2014 at 10:43 pm
I spent the past several days at the National Science Teachers Convention at the Boston Convention Center. Thursday started out with a talk by some lady from Texas Instruments. I couldn’t figure out why she was so popular, but the next guy I am a big fan of since I started teaching! Bill Nye the […]
This time I won the Vernier Engineering Contest! Yes, the same company, but a different award, and for something completely different! Last month I won the NSTA Vernier Technology Award. For this contest I had to create a video showing how to use Vernier probes in an engineering class. You can view my winning entry here. […]
January 28, 2014 at 10:18 pm
I received the following note today! Congratulations! You have been selected by the NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) Awards and Recognitions Committee as a recipient for the 2014 Vernier Technology Award. They reviewed many applications and yours was chosen as it showcased your exemplary science teaching skills. The Vernier Technology Awards will recognize and reward […]
January 27, 2014 at 9:34 pm
Recently in physics class we just finished out unit on electrostatic. Many thanks to Eric for providing this nice vide After our introduction to sparks we played with the Van DeGraf Generator, which builds up a huge amount of charge, and makes you into an electroscope as we can see in these photos! […]
January 27, 2014 at 9:30 pm
I had to post this picture. One of the youngest people to buy my book sent me a picture of herself with the LEGO Mindstorm robot she made.
January 26, 2014 at 8:55 pm
When working at Tufts I was able to start playing around with 3D Printers. 3D Printing allows us as individuals to create physical objects that we can imagine! Boston University just opened a giant facility which we might call a “Makerspace.” But that is an understatement. EPIC is the new manufacturing training center for Boston […]
