Recreating Galileo's Thought Experiments

Humanities teachers have great books, and science teachers have groundbreaking experiments. In this episode, physics teacher Beth Lewis talks with Winston Brady about how science and STEM teachers can help teachers recreate some of the experiments described in Galileo's "Two New Sciences," including Galileo's "Leaning Tower of Pisa" experiment and calculating the acceleration due to gravity. Check out the Thales Press reader here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S39rEFRHlVgV1ET_sQB_lZ2uD5ak7e3q/view?usp=share_link Want to Readers with selections from Galileo's Two New Sciences and detailed instructions on how to set up the experiments will be made available digitally to workshop participants.