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Continue reading →: Pringles Challenge 2010
The Pringles Challenge is an engaging design challenge for students. The 2010 version is approaching fast- registration is due April 3, 2010. The challenge is simple (or is it)- design a package that will allow a single Pringles Potato Chip to travel unscathed through the care of the US Postal…
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Continue reading →: Her Lab in Your Life: Women in Chemistry
Her Lab in Your Life is a site featuring the work of female chemists in a variety of fields. The site provides information on female chemists who have made discoveries in : medicine computer science environmental science style and many more Applications for Science Teachers: The stories of these female…
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Continue reading →: Siemens STEM Academy
The Siemens STEM Academy is a premier online community designed exclusively to foster achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) through the collaboration of STEM educators, and sharing of “best practices”. The Siemens STEM Academy has: STEM Connect Webinars Teacher Resources: searchable by grade band and subject STEM Blog…
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Continue reading →: Physics Songs
The Science Cheerleader recently highlighted a resource with several physics songs provided by Haverford College. Please see her post HERE to learn more about this resource.
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Continue reading →: The Daily Dish
The Daily Dish is a catalog of 366 beautiful petri dishes painted by Klari Reis. See two of the images below. Visit the blog to see this powerful example of science and art.
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Continue reading →: Powerful Link Between Creativity and Play
I have been doing a lot of thinking and reading about creativity, innovation, and motivation as it relates to my own work and the work of classroom teachers. Below you will find a TED Talk clip by Tim Brown from 2008. The talk has several important messages for schools, teachers,…
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Continue reading →: How to Quick-Chill Soda
Using science to solve a real-life problem. I like it.
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Continue reading →: Nature: What Males Will Do
The PBS Nature site recently posted videos titled: What Males Will Do. This selection of video clips highlights the extreme lengths that males of the animal kingdom will go to in order to pass on their genes to the next generation. See the embedded clip on spiders below. You may…
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Continue reading →: Science Assessment changes for 2010- Washington State
I try not to write from too much of a local perspective on this blog but for this entry I’m sharing some information for Washington State teachers of science. Our state assessment system has gone through a name change (kind of like Prince changing his name to a symbol) and…
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Continue reading →: NASA’s Education Materials Finder
NASA’s Education Materials Finder is a tool to help teachers find NASA resources (since there are A LOT!). The Resource Finder lets the user search by grade range, types of resources, and content area. I also love that it shows you the number of resources available. For example, when I…
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