RE: LMAC #38: Giraffe Calls a Meeting, and a Brief History of Balloon Travel
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I really enjoyed the reading, actually even more than the picture you made! I guess I shouls apology about that. I truly hope you will nevertheless manage to get far in the competition :)
PS: Those old pictures you managed to resurrect are also great!
Hello @lemouth,
Thank you for enjoying my trip to the past. Perhaps it's safe to confess to a particle physicist that at my high school graduation I was given an award for interest in history :))
As for my flying giraffe and friends: as Peter Pan would say, "I won't grow up" 😅
I really do appreciate your stopping by and commenting. Means a lot.
Regards,
AG
I love history too (science history + "normal" history), to be honest. When I have time (this rarely happens those days), I like getting straight into the past with a nice book. My big boy also love history, by the way. I will give hi his first particle physics lecture today (he is 9 ;) ).
Lucky boy :)
I may actually share this here. If anyone is interested. The lesson one was "What is physics?", which is a not trivial question for a 9 y.o. kid :)
I think it's a great idea. And it's been 'laboratory tested'--the laboratory of your home, with your son as a test subject :))
When I was raising my children I was always looking for ways to present sophisticated material in language they could understand but that didn't infantilize the information. There were a lot of "Field Guides" in my bookcase.: colordul pictures with short, descriptive captions.
We should call the different things by their names. That is the most important part. Then we can further explain with terms easier to grasp, but using the right names is crucial, IMO.