Teach For Nepal: Critical Thinking
Why in Nepal we must teach our children to THINK and how we can do that in Science.
One Small Step for a Science Teacher, One Giant Leap for Science Teaching in Nepal?
We are making gains, we are making progress...albeit small and slowly, but some day will amount to something substantial...that's what I am hoping anyway!
Little Changes…Could be Big Victories
On the road to changing science teaching and learning...at Jana Uddhar School.
Nepal Earthquake: Himalayan Megaquake Video
PBS Nova production about the April 25 megaquake that struck Nepal.
Teaching…To Learn and To Change
Volunteering at Shanti Nikunj school to work with the 6th grade science teacher to teach, to learn and...to change.
Gunpowder flare. A screenshot of a video of some of my students at TISA testing their gunpowder mixtures. Check out my Science blog for more.
Explosives?! What Explosives?!
Part of the fun with teaching and studying secondary Chemistry is in the experiments, especially the dramatic variety--the explosive variety!
Fig. 5. Fishing for dinner.
Project Update: Fishery as an SBE
Sustainability of development projects is always an issue. In our efforts to ensure that our projects are sustainable, and addresses a number of related issues faced by struggling communities, we establish Social Business for Education (SBE) projects. The blog post describes in details what SBE is.
Jeremy Rifkin - The Empathic Civilisation
The Science of Empathy And Buddhism
All about compassion and why I believe in it and have been a proponent of all my life!