PASSIONATELY CURIOUS - Sebastian Martin, PhD » Workshops for Teachers

A different physics class

Sebastian Martin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:24:21 +0000

Bree Barnett just shared her amazing pictures of a class of “Light Traces” with us. Her photos are a stunning combination of art and physics experiments. The beautiful lines of light carry a full description of the physical motion (translation and rotation) of the object as it moved through space in one single image. Click on the photo to see more.

She and her students used LED lights to visualize experiments on kinetics. By taking long-exposure pictures of moving objects with lights they manage to visualize the path of motion.

“Light Traces” is a hands-on teaching activity that was developed by Sebastian Martin, inspired by Light Painting from the PIE group.

Read detailed instructions or look at a picture gallery .

The life of light

Sebastian Martin — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:17:58 +0000

SFMOMA and the Exploratorium teamed up to explore the intersection of science and art in the exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson. Visitors experienced the phenomena in Eliasson’s work first hand with the Exploratorium’s science activities during SF MoMA’s “Life of light” family day.

Echoing the artist’s work, we brought lights, colors, mirrors and waves to play with for the special event. Click below to see the picture gallery.Find out how to create “Colored Shadows” yourself, or read more about the exhibition Take your time:Olafur Eliasson at SF MoMA.

PIE ! A playful approach to invention

Sebastian Martin — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:28:55 +0000

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

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

Sebastian Martin — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:42:00 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:09:00 +0000

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!

Exploratorium Quarterly – Baseball

admin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:42:00 +0000

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).

Read more: How to make Light Traces

Simple Science Tools

admin — Sun, 06 May 2007 03:41:00 +0000

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

Ecobay

admin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:51:00 +0000

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.

Wave upon Wave

admin — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:59:00 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:31:00 +0000

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