Funky science displays for kids?
October 23, 2009 4:25 AM Subscribe
I have just started as a school science technician at an inner city school. Over the holiday I would like to spruce up the 5 science classrooms with displays covering the various disciplines. Does anyone know of any online resources, posters to download/print etc?
I have seen some great posters that would be entertaining and interesting for the kids (such as this) but ideally these displays need to be very cheap.
Any advice much appreciated!
I have seen some great posters that would be entertaining and interesting for the kids (such as this) but ideally these displays need to be very cheap.
Any advice much appreciated!
This may be obvious, but you can find some great science-related images on Flickr that you can print and display with attribution. For instance, I found this by searching for the word "microscopic" and this by searching for the word "pi" in Creative Commons-licensed content.
posted by sueinnyc at 7:22 AM on October 23, 2009
posted by sueinnyc at 7:22 AM on October 23, 2009
One of the best scientific posters (and certainly the most impressive) has to be the Biochemical Pathways wall chart from Roche. I doubt it would be useful to high-school students, but it sure gets the point across! Get your free copy here by scrolling down to the very bottom and selecting it under the "General" section. (I ordered mine as a college student and got it in the mail about a week later, but in hindsight, it certainly wasn't the best decoration for a dorm room; my dad ended up liking it enough to hang it in his lab).
posted by halogen at 7:49 AM on October 23, 2009
posted by halogen at 7:49 AM on October 23, 2009
The Exploratorium (only the coolest museum ever) has some neat stuff on their website. You could build some of the projects as displays.
One thing my high school physics teacher did was to get students to paint all over the walls (he had the liberty to do this, but you could accomplish the same thing on canvases)...there were portraits of famous scientists (Newton, Galileo, etc) as well as demonstrations of physics experiments and principals (I remember a tree with a monkey falling out). You could seek out talented students to do this for extra credit.
posted by radioamy at 9:24 AM on October 23, 2009
One thing my high school physics teacher did was to get students to paint all over the walls (he had the liberty to do this, but you could accomplish the same thing on canvases)...there were portraits of famous scientists (Newton, Galileo, etc) as well as demonstrations of physics experiments and principals (I remember a tree with a monkey falling out). You could seek out talented students to do this for extra credit.
posted by radioamy at 9:24 AM on October 23, 2009
There are many, many high resolution "sciency" images available on the internet. Wikipedia's featured images page is a good place to start.
posted by alby at 10:00 AM on October 23, 2009
posted by alby at 10:00 AM on October 23, 2009
have you seen this post? It has a few sources for printable science-y things.
posted by alight at 3:18 PM on October 23, 2009
posted by alight at 3:18 PM on October 23, 2009
Not free but The Planetary Society is having a sale and has some posters for $2 each.
posted by CarolynG at 5:41 PM on October 23, 2009
posted by CarolynG at 5:41 PM on October 23, 2009
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Alternatively, I wonder if you could pair up with an arts organization that works with kids (like Little Black Pearl in Chicago) and have your students generate some original artwork themselves.
posted by Meg_Murry at 6:36 AM on October 23, 2009