16 November 2018 was an important day for science. A meeting was held in Versailles to take a final decision on the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK). What is this all about? Click here to read a fascinating article about the history of the kilogram and other metric units and how standardisation will take place in future.
This is awesome material for teachers and learners. Three more articles are available here, here and here from The Washington Post and The New York Times.
Friday 16 November 2018
Tuesday 13 November 2018
The International Space Station (ISS)
How is life onboard the International Space Station (ISS) and what does it look like on the inside? Here is a pretty amazing and informative video of 28 minutes (60 MB) of what it is like. With this type of video, it is so easy to understand Newton's laws of motion for example. Just imagine how learners in a previous dispensation had to rely only on their imagination to understand aspects of the first law for example. Now they can "see" it happens. My thanks to the Facebook page of Boyden Observatory and the Naval Hill Planetarium for the video. Click here for the video and click here for more information about the ISS.
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