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My new mug!
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The other side of my new mug!
So I went to an interview for the HQ of the National Science Teachers Association and I really dig these people. They want to use their new space as a teaching tool for faculty, and through dissemination, for the students whose lives their members impact. I may be biased, but I think their sustainable design goals (LEED Platinum) and ability to use the space as a teaching tool are some of the primary design drivers on this project. Cool cats!
In addition, they have a great sense of humor. One of the attendees at our meeting today was holding a coffee mug that looks like a beaker with the molecule for caffeine etched on the side. No joke. I was in raptures and I was giving a mug of my own. So I was checking out their website to see if there was a way to purchase additional mugs (I know others will cover this mug as soon as they see it) and I found this tremendous website with a great deal of resources for science educators, but also available to the general public. You will need to create a user ID, but you can download really cool information on climate change, plate tectonics, cell structure and function cells, the solar system…pretty much anything you ever wanted to know more about. These lessons are designed to help first-time science teachers as well as long-time science teachers brush up on their science basics so that they can be better teachers. I realized that I actually might want to learn more about these topics and as a non-scientist, can appreciate the clear and straigtforward manner in which the information is presented. Check out Science Objects for some free science food to feed your inner science-nerd. I am keeping my fingers crossed that we get to work with these clients – I wish they were all this cool Image may be NSFW.
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