By Michael Doig on Friday, September 25, 2009Filed Under: News, Professional Development
Earth Science Week 2009 Photography Contest Grab your digital camera and go shoot some pictures this weekend. The photography contest is titled “How Climate Shapes My World.”. Snap the winning picture and win $300. AGI is sponsoring a photography contest to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. The photography theme for this year is: “How Climate [...]
Starting your lesson with a Do Now is good practice. It sets the tone for the class, gets students settled in (because they have to do it now), and ideally makes them think. A Do Now is a question or quote that either reviews or introduces a topic to students. But what constitutes a good [...]
By Michael Doig on Tuesday, February 5, 2008Filed Under: Featured, Lesson Planning, Teaching Tips
Amazing photographs can take your presentation from good to great. Don’t make your students sit through another PowerPoint with bad images. There are loads of free high quality images available online. Here are 22 places to get great images for use in your scientific presentations: 1) Visible Earth – A catalog of NASA images and [...]