A different physics class

The life of light

PIE ! A playful approach to invention

PIE is “Playful Invention and Exploration” - or integrating engineering with artistic expression. Their web page is a treasure chest for any maker.

Lightplay at PIE
Lightplay. This is one of their awesome art projects. Also try “marble machines”, the animations on the page are a joy to watch.

Exploratorium Baseball in SF Chronicle


The Light Traces I did together with Amy Snyder are featured in the San Francisco Chronicle today (06/09/07)! The front page article talks about the science of pitching and has a few cool and definitely funny light traces pictures in it! Here is the link: A neophyte takes on the science of pitching

Have a look at our Light Traces of Baseball featuring Dave Barker (he is my coach).Baseball gallery

Read more: How to make Light Traces

ExNet Tinkering Workshop



That was an awesome workshop with our ExNet partners, I had a lot of fun meeting other museum educators and exhibit developers and learning from their experience. Thanks everyone for taking part and helping to prototype a marble track exhibit!

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Exploratorium Quarterly - Baseball

Baseball is the focus of the next Exploratorium Quarterly (July 2007)! Have a look at Light Traces of Baseball featuring Dave Barker (he is the explOratorium’s baseball expert).
Curveball

Read more: How to make Light Traces

Simple Science Tools

A web page with Curt Gabrielson’s latest and greatest “Simple Science Tools” fresh from the Teacher Institute Workshop:
3 wheeler

Ecobay

Save the Bay! A workshop that combined hands-on activities on mapping, data collection and water sheds. A lot of fun, just like the other outdoors workshops, …Click to see more.
Water pollution

Wave upon Wave


Making waves and making waves disappear, using only paper and coffee stirs. An elegant paper model showing constructive and destructive interference, my first invention at the Exploratorium. DocFile

Discovery Voyage

Pictures of the Discovery Voyage Workshop.
We spent a half-day discovering the Estuary’s ecosystem aboard the research vessel, Robert G. Brownlee. Amazing!
Leopard Shark