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The Belly and the Members
Give your class some food for thought after reading Aesop's "The Belly and the Members" by Aesop. Once pupils have listened to an audio version of the story, they answer four questions regarding the fable's theme, including a narrative...
Rock A Lingua
La Tierra, Lugares y Animales (Places and Wild Animals)
¡Esta tierra está enferma! Beginning Spanish learners learn more about the ways pollution affects rivers, forests, oceans, and the animals that live in these habitats with a catchy and informative song.
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The Bat and the Weasels
Teach your class about being as adaptable as a bat with Aesop's "The Bats and the Weasels." After listening to an audio retelling of the fable, learners fill out a KWL chart about the story, including what they learned about bats.
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Belling the Cat
It's easy to come up with ideas, but much harder to implement them! Learners read along to an audio recording of Aesop's "Belling the Cat" before coming up with a plan that will keep the fable's mice safe while placing a bell on a cat.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: High Tech Meets High Art in "Modernist Cuisine"
An interview with Nathan Myhrvold, author of the 6-volume cookbook, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. Myhrvold uses tools and materials normally confined to a science lab. Aired July 1, 2011 [20:26 min]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Watchmen
Science Friday talks with one of the co-creators of the graphic novel Watchmen, and with a physicist who was a consultant to the feature film.
Backstory Radio
Backstory Radio: In the Beginning: Science and Religion in America
BackStory Radio episode explores the debate over evolution being taught in schools and seeks answers to larger questions of the relationship between science and religion. Audio and transcript are provided.
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Fermilab: The Nature of Science Podcasts
A great resource for anyone thinking about becoming a scientist. Includes podcasts of eight scientists giving their opinions on what life is really like in the world of science. Fascinating to see the world through the eyes of a young...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Science, Intelligent Design and a 'Flock of Dodos'
A recent evolution trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, spurred the intelligent design-evolution debate. Author Edward Humes, former evolutionary biologist and filmmaker Randy Olsen, and Nicholas Matzke, from the National Center for Science...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Get Inked for Science
An interview with author Carl Zimmer about his book Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed, which looks at science tattoos. Aired Jan. 13, 2012 [11:53 min]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Gripping Science Tales Need Not Be Science Fiction
A discussion of how to tell a good story in science while being scientifically accurate as well. Aired Mar. 29, 2013 [36:35 min]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: If Science Takes a Wrong Turn, Who Rights It?
What happens when scientists make mistakes, as in bad science, scientific fraud, misrepresentation, and outright lying? Sometimes the results, despite being debunked or retracted, continue to circulate and be cited by others. Aired Aug....
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Rep. Rush Holt: Science and Congress
Retiring Representative Rush Holt, with a background in physics, is one of a handful of members of Congress who understand science. In this interview, he talks about how this has helped him in politics. Aired June 13, 2014 [12:07 min]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Beautiful Science
Chat with the curator of the exhibition entitled Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World, which spans centuries of scientific progress, and includes original books and drawings by scientific luminaries such as Galileo, Robert...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Importance of Strange Science
An interview with Marc Abrahams, author of This is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and other WTF Research. He is an expert in strange science, and talks about what we can learn from unusual and weird experiments....
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Why Science and the Humanities Are Better Together
An interview with acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson about why it is important to understand both arts and sciences, particularly in our digital age. He gives examples of exceptional, creative people who had a grasp of both, such as...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Science Advice for Future Presidents
A report from the Center for the Study of the Presidency examines the science and technology that are embedded in many issues that the President must confront. To do that, the President needs a basic understanding of the these, and...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: 4 H Science Project
The organization holds its third annual 4-H National Youth Science Day, in which kids around the country studied carbon dioxide.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Science Challenges for the Next Administration
A conversation about the challenges that newly elected President Obama faces that are related to science. These include energy policy and health care. Aired Nov. 7, 2008 [17:48]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Science and the Economy: Rush Holt
Ira talks with Rush Holt, plasma physicist and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, about how the troubled economic times may affect the outlook for science and technology in the US. [9:12]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Science Goes to the Movies: 'Transcendence'
SciFri's scientist-film critics weigh in on the science behind the Hollywood techno-thriller Transcendence.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Science Fairs 2.0
A report card on the state of science fairs today, and a look into the future.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Science Fiction Technology
How do filmmakers create the visions of technology that fill science fiction films?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Food Failures: Knead to Know Science Behind Bread
America's Test Kitchen editorial director Jack Bishop talks about the science behind a perfect loaf. [22 mins. 26 secs.]
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