by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 17, 2011 | Blog, Brain Makeover, Science Education
Check this out. The full report, Science and the Educated American: A Core Component of Liberal Education, may be downloaded free of charge at http://www.amacad.org/publications/scienceSLAC.aspx Chapter 7 features the insights of SciCheer collaborator and friend,...
by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 4, 2009 | Blog, Brain Makeover, Citizen Science, In the News, Science Education, Science Policy, Sticky
Very exciting day here spurred by an article about Science Cheerleader’s efforts to increase adult science literacy in the Chronicle of Higher Education and today’s FOX News “headline news story” about our Brain Makeover! The traffic brought...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 29, 2009 | Blog, Brain Makeover, Science Education
18. All life is connected. Ecosystem is a term that refers to all of the living things in a specific area, together with the material surroundings. Plants and animals within as ecosystem often depend on each other in complex ways, so that it is not usually possible to...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 8, 2009 | Blog, Brain Makeover, Science Education
Lesson #13 of 18 in the Brain Makeover collaboration with Professor James Trefil/GMU, the 76ers Cheerleaders and the Science Cheerleader. See Brain Makeover Series. The surface of the earth is constantly changing. The Earth can be thought of as being separated into...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 5, 2009 | Blog, Brain Makeover, Science Education
All matter is made from quarks and leptons The primary parts of the nucleus of the atom are the positively charged proton and the electrically neutral neutron. During the twentieth century it was discovered that there are literally hundreds of other particles—all...