Joanne Jacobs
Teaching the eclipse — safely
When I was in elementary school in Illinois in the early ’60s, there was a total eclipse. I remember being terrified of going blind. I...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 19, 2017
- 1 min
83% of science aces are immigrants’ kids
Indrani Das, 17, won the Regeneron Science Talent Search this year for her study of a possible approach to treating the death of neurons...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 10, 2017
- 1 min
Why Grover is the STEM monster
Sesame Street’s STEM monster is mistake-prone Grover, reinvented as Super Grover 2.0, writes Kate Stringer on The 74. Whenever the furry...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 9, 2017
- 2 min
Julio pets the stegosaurus
Virtual-reality technology is helping students understand science, writes Carolyn Jones on EdSource. The technology is “extraordinarily...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 26, 2017
- 2 min
Kid-friendly ‘Martian’ teaches science
An astronaut is stranded on Mars, nobody knows he’s alive and rescue is four years away, far longer than his food supply will hold out....
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