Web Watch

Carl Mungan, United States Naval Academy
mungan@usna.edu

An elegant online edition of “The Elements of Euclid” can be browsed starting at https://www.c82.net/euclid/.

I have heard good things about the free open-source vector graphics editor Inkscape. Check it out at https://inkscape.org/.

A repository of free textbooks can be accessed at https://libretexts.org/.

A quarter of a million items are said to be explorable from the Science Museum Group search page at https://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/.

I recently ran across Springer’s open access journal on STEM Education at https://stemeducationjournal.springeropen.com/.

A Quebec-based Science Education Project to support high school teachers is described at https://www.mcgill.ca/sciedchantier7/.

The Royal Society of Chemistry has an extensive education site at https://eic.rsc.org/.

Browse and learn how to create instructional story maps (which are especially helpful in science education) at https://collections.storymaps.esri.com/how-to-stories/. Also see http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/app-list/map-tour/.

Read about Karen Uhlenbeck’s winning of the Abel Prize in Mathematics at https://www.quantamagazine.org/karen-uhlenbeck-uniter-of-geometry-and-analysis-wins-abel-prize-20190319/.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has a report titled “Perceptions of Science in America” at https://www.amacad.org/publication/perceptions-science-america and the follow-up report “Encountering Science in America” at https://www.amacad.org/publication/encountering-science. Also see the Pew Research Center report “What Americans Know About Science” starting at https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/03/28/what-americans-know-about-science/.

Rhett Alain compares nuclear versus ion rocket engines at https://www.wired.com/2015/10/whatd-make-better-rocket-nuclear-ion-engines/.

If you run a science article journaling seminar, you may wish to give the students a copy of the tips about reading scientific papers collected at https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/03/how-seriously-read-scientific-paper.

Videos and notes for flipped physics are being developed at https://www.flippingphysics.com/.

Resources from the television program “Our Planet” are online at https://www.ourplanet.com/en/. Also browse National Geographic’s animal species photo repository at https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/ as well as the educational aspects of deep-sea habitats at https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1903/background/edu/edu.html.

Maths in a Minute explores various interesting mathematical puzzles and concepts in bite-sized pieces at https://plus.maths.org/content/maths-in-a-minute.

A discussion of the 1919 eclipse expedition to confirm general relativity can be read at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/science/solar-eclipse-einstein-physics.html.

It appears that an organic laser diode (as opposed to merely an OLED) has been finally realized, as described at https://phys.org/news/2019-05-laser-diodes-reality.html.

Disclaimer – The articles and opinion pieces found in this issue of the APS Forum on Education Newsletter are not peer refereed and represent solely the views of the authors and not necessarily the views of the APS.