Posts by Roger Grant:
How Science Really Works
A simulated fossil dig, a video about a 4 winged dinosaur, a search for more information about the process of science and where does it get you? Well maybe a little bit closer to how science really works.
Scientific investigation isn’t like the lab experiments you do in school. Those help you to better understand how controlled experiments are used to test a hypothesis, but not how science really works. To get a better understanding click on the image below.
Fossil Find
How strange is this? I was checking my email tonight and found this from Nova. I linked the picture to the Nova site (click on the picture) where you can watch the program online. See how these real paleontologists debate their findings and reach very different conclusions on what this animal looked like. Sound familiar?
Getting Ready for Students
I’ve been making some last minute fixes to the website because once again I changed the design, something I seem to do almost every year. And then I looked back at posts from the start of previous years. This will be my 7th year greeting new students, but just my second year at Windy Ridge. I wonder what the [...]