PBS Teachers Featured Innovator: Michael Lampert
Watching an airbag deploy with a loud noise in their classroom, students learn not only about Newton’s laws of physics but also how physics are applied to save lives. While traditional physics lessons ask students to drop an egg and watch it crash, Michael Lampert’s airbag activity enables students to imagine themselves in a car crash and understand how restraints act during a collision. Watch Lampert’s classroom demonstration at http://www.pbs.org/teachers/innovators/gallery/entries/88/.
Lampert conducts this and many other engaging, loud, and messy experiments with his students at West Salem High School in Salem, Oregon, where he teaches microelectronics, physics, and astronomy. His students have won awards in national science and robotics competitions. He has also traveled to Antarctica to study ozone and to Africa to study infrasound. His contributions to PBS’ Wired Science--an exploration of the next generation of science and technology--are featured at http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/education/mlampert.html.
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Arthur: Go Green Challenge
Offline Activity
Grade Range: PreK, K-2
Find new ways to be ecologically smart and keep track of your accomplishments with Arthur’s seven go green challenges.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/6984/preview/
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Mathline: In a Heartbeat
Lesson Plan
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Use scatter plots to determine the relationship between heartbeats per minute and aerobic exercise.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/mathline/lessonplans/msmp/heartbeat/heartbeat_procedure.shtm
Cyberchase: The Fractionator
Video
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Super math hero The Fractionator explains how to divide a banana into different fractions to eat with his cereal.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7684/preview/
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The National Parks: America’s Best Idea: Ask a Ranger
Offline Activity
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Interview a park ranger and create a story about a National Park using video or other media.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7684/preview/
The Electric Company: Shock’s Beatbox
Interactive
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Engineer your own hip-hop music while learning the sounds of different letters and parts of words to create new sound combinations.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/6967/preview/
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History Detectives: Hot Town Poster, Face Jug, Lost City of Gold
On-Air | Monday, August 16, 9pm
Grade Range: 9-12
Learn how a political poster influenced public behavior, discover the connection between a piece of ceramic art and the underground railroad, and investigate what a rock inscription in Phoenix may tell us about the first European visitors to that area.
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/index.html
Faces of America: Ma Family History
Video
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Discover how some old books that no one seemed to want contained invaluable records of the family history of cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7629/preview/
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