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Continue reading →: Happy Anniversary Apollo 11
To celebrate the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969 I thought I would share a post from Mashable– If Neil Armstrong had Instagram.
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Continue reading →: MIT Video
Just learned about MIT Video over on the Free Technology for Teachers blog. This looks like another excellent science video resource with over 10,000 total videos to search. Click HERE to watch DNA Replication with LEGOs. Another site to add to your “science video” bookmarks.
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Continue reading →: Video explanations of Higgs Boson
Sorry I’m a little late to the party on this, but here are three short video explanations of the Higgs Boson … 1. What is a Higgs Boson? by Fermilab 2. So What IS the Higgs Boson? by SciShow 3. The Higgs Boson part 1 by Minutephysics Bonus video- The Higgs Boson…
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Continue reading →: Happy Birthday Science for All!
I published the first Science for All blog post on July 10, 2009. My only goal at the time was to give blogging a whirl and to see how it worked for sharing resources and information in my region of Washington state. In these three years I have created 671 posts related…
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Continue reading →: STEM Education Quality Framework
Washington STEM and the Dayton Regional STEM Center have partnered to develop an online STEM Education Quality Framework. The tool walks you through 10 self assessment ratings and then provides you with outcomes and recommendations based on your responses. This tool is broad enough that it could be used by…
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Continue reading →: Basic Systems Questions
I am a self-professed “systems nerd”.. I love systems thinking, conduct professional development on systems thinking, and am constantly on the lookout for new tools and resources regarding systems. So it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you another tool from the incomparable Tom Hathorn (a fellow systems…
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Continue reading →: Review of NGSS- The Science Goddess
The Science Goddess recently chimed in on the Next Generation Science Standards on her blog- What It’s Like on the Inside. She has proposed an interesting redesign of the standards layout and I hope someone out there is paying attention. Read the post HERE.
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Continue reading →: The Nation’s Report Card: Science in Action: Hands-On and Interactive Computer Tasks From the 2009 Science Assessment
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) recently released- The Nation’s Report Card: Science in Action: Hands-On and Interactive Computer Tasks From the 2009 Science Assessment. This report details findings from performance tasks that were given along with the paper-pencil tasks on the 2009 science NAEP. Click HERE to download a PDF of the report.…
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Continue reading →: Exoplanets
XKCD recently posted this comic on Exoplanets…simple and lovely.
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Continue reading →: How to Use a Paper Towel
This TED Talk- How to Use a Paper Towel- provides a useful solution for our paper towel problem (the one where we are using way too many paper towels). This video may not seem like it has a strong science connection- but I think it provides a very clear solution…
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