Bob & George
DragonSmoke - Issue 1
A quasiperiodical about past, present, and future adventures of Bob Albrecht & George Firedrake. Also a half-bakery of ideas about games, activities, investigations, and projects to help learners learn, and teachers teach, math and science.
Investigation Backpack is a column by Bob Albrecht and Brian Hanna in The Oregon Mathematics Teacher (TOMT), the journal of the Oregon Council of Teachers of Mathematics (OCTM). For information about Investigation Backpack, contact InvestigationBP@aol.com.
Spacecraft are orbiting Mars and rovers are roving on the Red Planet. We began our virtual exploration of Mars in 1993, inspired by Eric Burgess's Return to the Red Planet, Ben Bova's Mars, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars. In Mars Backpack, we will share our adventures in learning and teaching about Mars, the exploration of Mars, and plans for the first human communities on Mars. All aboard!
Math games, word games, and other games. Classic games, variations of classic games, new games by Bob & George, systems of games for learning and teaching math and other stuff.
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We are denizens of Gaia, a planet orbiting a star called Sol, also known as Helios. Gaia's neighborhood is a solar system consisting of Sol, nine planets, many moons of planets, and zillions of asteroids and comets. Teachers and students can use information in Solar System Backpack to model the motions of the planets as they go around Sol. The image shows the planets on 2005-11-07 when Mars is in opposition to Earth. Orbits are not to scale. The image is from
Solar System Live (http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html)
L&L is Learning and Leading with Technology, the magazine of the International Society for Technology in Education (http://www.iste.org/). From September 1999 through Summer 2003, Bob and Paul Davis wrote 13 Starship Gaia columns about exploring and building communities on Mars, modeling the Solar System, and Metric Backpack