This Digital Universe video from the American Museum of Natural History is a gorgeous 6 and 1/2 minute remider of where we earthlings sit on the big stage!!

Tom Barrett is a very creative teacher – he crowdsources ideas from other creative teachers and collates them for the rest of us at his Interesting Ways blog.
As a lover of Wordle, my favourite has got to be 43 Interesting Ways to use Wordle in the Classroom…

Just finished re-reading one of my all time favourite books – Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything. It is like a comfort blanket, and reminds me of where I belong in space and time. I bought it as soon as it was published because I am a Science Educator (!), but would recommend it to all humans to read. I love the way he writes, I love the way he explains and makes sense of things, and especially the way he tells the stories of the scientists. Of course I forget most of the facts as soon as I finish it, but the Big Picture stays…