Badass K-12 Science

Concrete Operational Kids Need Concrete Science Activities.

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We have moved to south L.A., at this spot.

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Lab equipment loans for small schools who don’t have any yet!

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Our Brushbots Station at the Zimmer Children’s Museum!

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Our booth at the Zimmer Children’s Museum!

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What is a Tweetup?

A Tweetup is a physical meeting of Twitter followers.  The host of the Tweetup would be the Twitter user who is central or important to the shared interest of the Twitter followers.  Those Twitter followers do not just follow the host; they are all likely to be following each other.  Any of those Twitter users could host a Tweetup; it is just likely that a central user would do so, because there is incentive:  a central figure is likely to be using Twitter to market a brand which is related to the shared interests of the followers, and a Tweetup can serve to increase brand recognition and loyalty.  The Tweetup also serves to increase the sharing of ideas along the vein of interest, of course.

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#scienceteachers Tweetup!

#scienceteachers Tweetup!

(fictitious) Science teachers who follow @badassingen, let’s have a Tweetup!  Bring your telescope if you can, and let’s meet at BadassK-12 headquarters in south L.A.  We’ll roll out our deep space telescope and point it at the Andromeda galaxy M31.  How about that?  T-day weekend Sunday night, 7:30p to 10:30p, just come and go anytime in between.  Cocoa and light snacks are served to get the sharing of ideas flowing.  Assume cancellation if it rains.  If cloudy, we’ll pull out the inflatable planetarium (which you can borrow from us for your class, by the way).  Bring your student work or whatever to show off, you can pin stuff up on our homasote board for the night!

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Event!  Family science night, at Badass K-12 headquarters, 11/11 5p-8p.

https://www.facebook.com/events/424772867719824/

* this is not a real event.  this is a college assignment. *

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Water drop shows off some physics of microgravity.

Video on our FB tab:

https://www.facebook.com/badassk12/app_137541772984354

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I’ve just finished the online training necessary to use this radio telescope for education.  Kids control the whole thing via the internet, and they can collect data on any astronomical event that emits radio waves.

How about that.  Better photo on our FB tab:

https://www.facebook.com/badassk12/app_195646697137509

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We have a deep space telescope now!

Found it on the street.  A neighbor tossed it out.  He was kind enough to tape the user’s manual to it.  I know the guy.  His son is a physics PhD guy, now living on the east coast.  Telescope must have been his, way way back before grad school.  Anyways, see a photo of our find at our Facebook tab:

https://www.facebook.com/badassk12/app_208195102528120

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There’s a tab on our Facebook page where you can get started.

We hope it helps.  Let us know, eh?

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Foot-operated bellows.  Perfect for a team of kindergarten students to use to push around small objects (like empty Similac 2-ouncers).  This hands-on work fits neatly into the Next Generation Science Standards about Forces and Interactions for kindergarten.  Boom, baby.  How you like dem apples?  Hmmm?

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Shared with Dropbox

See this file?  It is some lesson planning notes for kindergarten teachers.  I gave this to some customers of Learning Equipment Supply Service, my nonprofit organization.  If you teach K, please check this out.  It is completely badass.

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You know what to do with these bad boys when your offspring is done with the milk inside?  Toss?  Never.  You rinse and have kindergarten students (armed with aforementioned foot-operated bellows pump) use for learning how forces affect the motion of objects.  See, the cap and the base act as a pair of wheels.  The lightweight empty bottle is the perfect size and shape for use with the bellows in an Next-Generation Science Standards compliant kindergarten science lesson.  Why am I the first to think of and to deploy fun stuff like this?  We need more people in K-12 thinking like this, right now.