The last two weeks I’ve been busy preparing my chemistry and astronomy curricula for school this fall and writing a Preliminary Proposal for the National Science Foundation’s Informal Science Education grant. That was submitted last Thursday, and then I’ve been gone to a family reunion over this last weekend at Bear Lake in northern Utah. [...]
Archive for July, 2010
The Small Museum Enhancement Program
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged informal science education, National Science Foundation, preliminary proposal, small museum, mining museum, rural museum, iPad in museums, museum blogs, video tours, virtual tours on July 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Geology of the Tintic Mining District
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged apex mine, argent, bullion beck mine, burgin mine, centennial eureka mine, chief consolidated mine, dragon mine, eagle and bluebell mine, eureka hill mine, eureka utah, eurekadumpite, fissure vein, galena, gemini mine, godiva mine, humbug mine, iron blossom mine, mammoth utah, replacement ore body, silver mine, silver mining, silver ore, stope, swansea mine, tintic, tintic mining district, tintic standard mine, trixie mine on July 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
For the last week, I’ve been busy preparing for my classes at Walden School, including inventorying the science lab room (which is also my classroom) and planning out my course schedules. I’ll be teaching two sections of Chemistry, one of Astronomy, one of Computer Technology (a basic computer literacy course required in Utah), a section [...]
