jueves, 6 de marzo de 2014

Topics of science


These are the pictures of sixth graders before and after visiting the Fermilab, a laboratory for high energy physics in Chicago



If you ask a child to draw a scientist he/she will surely make a man with glasses and white coat. But this is another of the many topics in the world.

The results of a study that was done with primary and secondary school children about their opinion about science was:

-Students agree that it is important to study science at school but only a few of them want to become a scientist or to be taught as much science as possible at school.
-Results show that opinions toward science declined as they progressed through schooling.
-Many students believe that science is boring  and nonsense.
-A large majority see their science classes as difficult and out of their own reality.

But it isn’t true everyone can learn science and it can be funny!





Science, series and books

You can learn scince in a more enjoyable way through series and books such as...


                          
                          THE BIG BANG THEORY (SERIE)



Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Caltech in Pasadena, California. They are colleagues, best friends, and roommates, although in all capacities their relationship is always tested primarily by Sheldon's regimented, deeply eccentric, and non-conventional ways. They are also friends with their Caltech colleagues mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali. The foursome spend their time working on their individual work projects, playing video games, watching science-fiction movies, or reading comic books. As they are self-professed nerds, all have little or no luck with popular women. When Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress originally from Omaha, moves into the apartment across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon's, Leonard has another aspiration in life, namely to get Penny to be his girlfriend.



                              BREAKING BAD (SERIE)



  To provide for his family's future after he is diagnosed with lung cancer, a    chemistry genius turned high school teacher teams up with an ex-student to     cook and sell the world's purest crystal meth.



                       QUANTIC LOVE (BOOK)


Quantic Love is the novel that solves the equation of love. At CERN , the center of the world 's most advanced research , including experiments in time travel and teleportation between particles exceeding the speed of light and others that reveal the origin of the universe , the young Laila faces the greatest mystery there is: how to decide between two loves . On the one hand , Alessio , an attractive journalist, and, second , Brian, a brain scientist hiding a big secret. Laila is a young Sevillian with one goal , to work during the summer to pay for his first year in college. Once there he meets Angie, her roommate , who makes a sacrifice and hard unforgettable summer , a summer will know new people that will open new frontiers and make you feel at home. Friends and coworkers who try to solve the equation of love. Quantic Love is , in short, an entertaining and original story in which the characters are well defined and provoke sincere empathy with the reader


                     BREAKFAST WITH PARTICLES (BOOK)



Sonia Fernández-Vidal, writer and PhD in Quantum Physics, and Francesc Miralles, writer and journalist, invite us to a fun breakfast to which they will attend invitadostambién Newton, Einstein, Heisenberg and other famous physicists in history. Among muffins, donuts, coffee and orange juice, will undertake a fascinating and revealing journey to the origins of the universe. Learn what is a particle accelerator, which is the God particle, how things can be in two places at once ... and try to understand the mysteries of existence.












Experiments at home