The second draft of the Next Generation Science Standards have come and gone (comment period was in January 2013). The January 2013 draft version has been removed from the official website, but you can still find it here.
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NCNAAPT member Dan Burns has collected a great set of clips from The Simpsons TV series. Each clip includes a brief description of the physics involved in the clip. You can see them here: www.lghs.net/teachers/science/burns/scienceonsimpsons/Clips.html
Here’s a video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVYKjR1sJY4 a mid-infrared (MIR) image showing the flash of the Centaur impact: www.universetoday.com/2009/10/09/moon-impact-data-and-images-from-lcross-first-glance/mir-flash-detection/ and an image of an even larger impact we performed about 40 years ago: the Apollo 14 booster stage for calibrating Apollo 12’s seismometers: www.universetoday.com/2009/10/09/lro-spots-apollo-14-booster-crash-site-on-moon/ And NASA’s LCROSS page: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/
In their Season Premiere the Mythbusters will take on the infamous projectile problem of a dropped vs shot bullet. While teaching projectiles, many teachers use an example of shooting a bullet horizontally and dropping one next to it at the same time. While students agree that this may hold true for slow projectiles, they often don’t believe that that gravity would act on something moving really fast, like a bullet. On their season premiere tonight, 9pm PST, the Mythbusters will be testing this out in “Knock Your Socks Off.”
WASHINGTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA released Thursday newly restored video from the July 20, 1969, live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The release commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first mission to land astronauts on the moon. The initial video release, part of a larger Apollo 11 moonwalk restoration project, features 15 key moments from the historic lunar excursion of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. A team of Apollo-era engineers who helped produce the 1969 live broadcast of the moonwalk acquired the best of the broadcast-format video from a variety of sources for the restoration effort. These…