In case you missed it, fellow physics teacher John Burk blogged a post-mortem of our collaborative lesson in which our students brought Eratosthenes’s famous experiment into the 21st Century: Measuring the Earth with Skype and a Stick. The feedback from his students were overwhelmingly positive! Check it out! (And be sure to subscribe to his blog while you’re there!)
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What!?
I was just skimming through your blog, and I saw I was going to do this next year! Totally independent inspiration!
*and I saw this. I was….