{"id":1117,"date":"2012-05-13T19:43:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T07:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/05\/symphony_of_science_the_world\/"},"modified":"2012-05-13T19:43:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T07:43:19","slug":"symphony-of-science-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/05\/symphony-of-science-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"symphony of science: the world of the dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;I occasionally (very occasionally, right now, with my workload the way it is) watch the Symphony of Science series on youtube. Today I took a few minutes &amp; watched &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ige2YBBJeh4\">The world of the dinosaurs<\/a>&quot;, which is quite good** in a techno- sort of way.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I mentioning this? Because when I was taking part in Primary Science Week, dinosaurs did get a mention. Most children seem fascinated by dinos (partly, I suspect, b<a href=\"http:\/\/dinosaurs.about.com\/od\/dinosaursinpopculture\/a\/Why-Do-Kids-Like-Dinosaurs.htm\">ecause they are big, dangerous, &amp; safely <i>extinct<\/i><\/a>, as Stephen Jay Gould once remarked), and that fascination can lead them into all sorts of science-based questions. Perhaps we should make more use of dinosaurs, in primary education. (Plenty of opportunities there for building dino-science into literacy and numeracy work, after all!)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>** although the pedant in me insists on noting that pterosaurs, pliosaurs, &amp; their ilk <a href=\"http:\/\/teenskepchick.org\/2012\/01\/01\/sciencesunday-what-makes-a-dinosaur\/\">were most definitely <i>not <\/i>dinosaurs<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;I occasionally (very occasionally, right now, with my workload the way it is) watch the Symphony of Science series on youtube. 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