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Feb 6, 2013 11 min

Hey science teachers -- make it fun

from TED Education Hosted by TED: Ideas worth spreading

High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt was ecstatic about a lesson plan on bacteria (how cool!) -- and devastated when his students hated it. The problem was the textbook: it was impossible to understand. He delivers a rousing call for science teachers to ditch the jargon and extreme precision, and instead make science sing through stories and demonstrations. A video of this talk

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