science

The Ruben’s Tube: Dancing Fire

Click for an UPDATED version of this experiment and with a great new video. It’s always great when a student…

15 years ago

Science and technology heroes

It was Dean Kamen -  the inventor of the Segway and a version of the artificial heart - who established…

15 years ago

Butterfly Waystation

The sixth grade began planning this in science class in the fall when the monarchs stop by PDS on their…

15 years ago

Science Symposium 2009

The sixth annual Science Symposium meant  7th and 8th graders ready to share their work with the school community. As…

15 years ago

Thicker than water

I was sorry to miss this event but Lynn sent me pictures.This was a lesson in viscosity. They started with…

16 years ago

Brain Surgery

Can you tell the anterior cortex, amygdala, and  parietal lobe from  the optic chiasma and  the corpus collosum? If not…

16 years ago

Electricity Trade Show

The American Flashlight, Game Boards, Quiz Shows, a Climbing Tree, Cop Car, Electric Robot and more. All at the Electricity…

16 years ago

New semester in motion

It's day one of the second semester in the high school. That means the  start of new high school courses. …

16 years ago

Saving the Children from Science

There's another of those scary science stories in today's NYTimes: Split Outcome in Texas Battle in Teaching Evolution. The real…

16 years ago

In the microscope

PDS has new science laboratories. Time for a poem from the Czech poet-scientist Miroslav Holub. In the Microscope Here too…

16 years ago

An Amazing New Periodic Table

Take a look at this fantastic tool. How many of these skills do you have at your mousetip? Since 1996…

16 years ago

Construction Begins: June Progress Report

Out with the old hoops, in with the new floor. The gym is looking good. Checking the plans in the…

16 years ago

The pH rises … Science Symposium 08

The pH rises and the bubbles stream out; pop, From the misty stream. The water running and the fish swimming…

16 years ago

A World Lit by Shooting Stars

The exhalations whizzing in the air Give so much light that I may read by them. Julius Caesar Act 2…

17 years ago

Those Apocryphal Flying Cats of Borneo: The Real Story

The flying cats of Borneo - apocryphal? Hyperbole? Fantasy? Jungle legend? Imaginary animals? In response to a request from a…

18 years ago