Science Tricks and Experiments

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Last week while our class was on a visit to the Middle School, one of the science teachers (Mr. Goretski) took a few minutes to show our group some amazing science tricks.  The students were extremely engaged and impressed.
  
Then I had a thought, science shouldn't only be exciting for students when they visit an 8th grade teacher's classroom!  So I searched and found a web site called The Surfing Scientist. The minute I started looking around this site I was impressed!  The Surfing Scientist, which is really a guy named Ruben Meerman,  shows all sorts of amazing science tricks and conundrums.  

 After seeing how impressed the students were with Mr. Goretski's science tricks, I have decided to show our students that there are plenty of amazing things to learn on the Internet about science.  And The Surfing Scientist is a great place to start!  Of course, nothing can replace the atmosphere and learning environment that Mr. Goretski provides in his classroom!

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Anonymous said…
WOW! These are great resources!! We need to save these links for the Science Fair. :)
May 16, 2011 at 11:41 AM
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