Learning Science
How should we teach and learn about science? From chemistry sets and comics, to educational board games and TV programs, we often turn to play when it’s time to learn.
DISTILLATIONS MAGAZINE
Comics: Old-School Distance-Learning Tools
How the often-maligned genre was used to train soldiers, explain the weather, and teach us about the modern world.
DIGITAL EXHIBITIONS
Science at Play
Discover the history of chemistry sets and how these miniature laboratories for children contained much more than their parts.
COLLECTIONS BLOG
The Power of a Teacher
How chemistry offered an international path to survival.
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
Periodic Tables Collection
Selected visual representations of the periodic table, with an emphasis on alternative layouts.
DISTILLATIONS PODCAST
Learning History with Video Games
Are historical video games an important tool for learning or do they corrupt our collective understanding of the past?
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
Scientific Education Collection
A selection of chemistry sets, molecular models, and science kits used for both instruction and play, all primarily from the mid-20th century.
THE DISAPPEARING SPOON PODCAST
What’s the Longest Word in the English Language?
And what does it have to do with the unusual chemistry of carbon?
DISTILLATIONS MAGAZINE
The Case of Continental Classroom
Before Bill Nye the Science Guy, there was Professor Harvey E. White of Continental Classroom.
COLLECTIONS BLOG
The Kids Are Alright
Understanding past attitudes toward science and medicine through children’s books.
