Living in Berlin, Germany means having regular encounters with ghosts of the past. Take a walk through Berlin’s vast urban landscape and you will pass by monuments, plaques, and street signs named after many famous literary, artistic and scientific figures. Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn and Max Planck are just some of the scientistsContinue reading “Close Encounters of a Scientific Kind”
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Why I Did It: Or How I Taught Myself How to Teach
Many years ago, too many to count, I started a YouTube channel, Step by Step Science. More than 550 videos and 200K plus subscribers later, I still remember the impulse for starting the whole thing…. Although at some point I had probably learned about the workings of concave and convex lenses and mirrors, it wasContinue reading “Why I Did It: Or How I Taught Myself How to Teach”
Step by Step Science YouTube Channel: How It Began
Every story has a beginning. My YouTube story begins in 2008 when I was teaching science at Bozeman High School in Bozeman, Montana. Too many textbooks had complicated or unclear explanations of the topics I needed to teach. I wanted to break down the concepts into simpler steps, not just for my students but forContinue reading “Step by Step Science YouTube Channel: How It Began”
Step by Step Science 