Recent Teacher Institute Podcasts from the Exploratorium

Size and scale can be difficult concepts to teach. TI staff educator Lori Lambertson talks us through one of her favorit... Read more

Students really struggle with the metric system. TI staff educator Lori Lambertson tells us how she helps students get a... Read more

Teaching isn't just work, it's a lot of fun. Staff physicist Thomas Humphrey quickly figured out that he didn't have the... Read more

TI staff biologist Karen Kalumuck describes how she tries not to answer every question that's asked during a class. Inst... Read more

A veteran teacher describes her first year of teaching-in Guatamala. She faced many, many challenges, but she stuck it o... Read more

What is indigo anyway? Staff physicist Paul Doherty tells the story behind ROYGBIV, and how he'd like to change that sta... Read more

What coin would just barely cover the full moon? You may be surprised. TI director (and recovering astrophysicist) Linda... Read more

Take a little sound quiz with our host, Stephanie Chasteen, and learn something about how our brains locate sounds.

Have you ever really listened to a ball bounce? Exploratorium staff physicist Thomas Humphrey describes the elegant math... Read more

Despite my better judgment, I invite TI staff educator Eric Muller to do one more set of activities�several things you... Read more