Breakout Challenge - In-class or Online

Challenge your students to solve clues to bring the Event Horizon Explorer (EHE) spacecraft back to Earth. Our new Search for EHE: Breakout Activity includes full instructions for in-class and online versions, and connects to Newton’s law of universal gravitation, Kepler’s laws, and the Doppler effect.

New Online Workshop

Want to take your synchronous sessions to the next level? Need creative ways to modify asynchronous activities? The ideas we’ll explore in this session are applicable for grade 5 to 12 in the classroom AND online. Participants are encouraged to download the free Tools for Teaching Science resource before the session.

This workshop will run Thursday, November 19 at 4 pm ET.

Making Nobel Connections

Image Credit: Nobel Media/Niklas Elmehed

Congratulations to the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients! Use our Black Holes resource to connect their research to your classroom:

• Activity 2 – General Relativity and Black Holes - through hands-on activities, students explore what black holes are using general relativity and connecting to some of the ideas developed by Roger Penrose
• Activity 5 – What is at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy?- students use data from Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez to determine the mass of the supermassive black hole Sgr A*

Public Lecture Webcast

A Physicist's Adventures in Virology
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 at 7 pm ET

In recent years, there has been a rise in cynicism about many traditionally well-respected institutions – science, academia, news reporting, and even the concepts of experts and expertise more generally. Many people’s primary – or only – exposure to science is through biological or health science, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In her lecture webcast, physicist Catherine Beauchemin will explore the erosion of trust in health research, presenting examples from influenza and COVID-19. She will show why she believes many of these issues have their root in the fact that hypotheses in health research are formulated as words rather than mathematical expressions – and why a dose of physics may be just the prescription we need. Tune in here on Nov. 4 at 7 pm ET.