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National Environmental Education Week | Home
“National Environmental Education Week (EE Week), the nation’s largest environmental education event held each year the week before Earth Day, inspires environmental learning and stewardship among K-12 students. EE Week connects educators with environmental resources to promote K-12 students’ understanding of the environment. EE Week is a program of the National Environmental Education Foundation. “
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NASA – Juno Flight System & Payload
“The Juno spacecraft is scheduled to launch aboard an Atlas V-551 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in Aug. 2011, reaching Jupiter in July 2016. The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter 32 times, skimming to within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) above the planet’s cloud tops, for approximately one year. “
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NASA – Engineering Design Process
“Engineering Design Process The engineering design process involves a series of steps that lead to the development of a new product or system. In this design challenge, students are to complete each step and document their work as they develop their lunar plant growth chamber. The students should be able to do the following:”
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not free but the 30 sec demo clips give you an idea about what these are – encourage students to create their own – “Our science songs cover science subjects taught in elementary school, middle school and high school, ranging from earth science and planets to biology and chemistry. “
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“North Korean forces invaded South Korea in 1950 and President Harry Truman authorized the use of American land, sea, and air forces in Korea to defend South Korea. Shortly thereafter, 15 other nations that belonged to the United Nations joined the U.S. in fighting the North Koreans.”
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The 3 Teenage Girls Who Won the Google Science Fair Speak at TEDx
In 2011, 3 teenage girls swept up the awards at the Google Science Fair. Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose and Naomi Shah were later invited to speak at TEDxWomen about their extraordinary science projects that prove it only takes small lifestyle changes to help make us better, happier and healthier human beings.
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Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean
“New results from the MARSIS radar on Mars Express give strong evidence for a former ocean of Mars. The radar detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor inside previously identified, ancient shorelines on the red planet. The ocean would have covered the northern plains billions of years ago. “
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Russia ‘drills into’ Antarctic subglacial lake
“A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms”
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Meet ‘Amasia,’ the Next Supercontinent – ScienceNOW
“Over the next few hundred million years, the Arctic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea will disappear, and Asia will crash into the Americas forming a supercontinent that will stretch across much of the Northern Hemisphere. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of the movements of these giant landmasses. “
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How many moons does Earth have?
“it’s very likely that small asteroids would be temporarily captured into orbit (becoming TCOs, or temporarily captured objects) on a regular basis, each spending about nine months in up to three revolutions around Earth before heading off again.”
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“Last September, two satellites – the smallest ever discovered – were found orbiting Jupiter. That brings the number of Jovian moons to a whopping 66. The moons – each about 1 km in size – are very distant from Jupiter. It takes the tiny satellites 580 and 726 days to orbit the gas giant.”
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American RadioWorks / Korea: The Unfinished War
“examine the often-overlooked war that helped define global politics and American life for the second half of the 20th century.”
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American RadioWorks / Korea: The Unfinished War
“When the Korean War started, the military was still deeply segregated. Blacks signed up anyway, seeing a better chance of getting ahead in uniform than in civilian life. “
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Conference tries to encourage girls to go into tech – San Jose Mercury News
“Dare 2B Digital, a conference designed to encourage girls to pursue careers in science and technology that attracted more than 400 participants to such workshops as Sylvia’s “Hands-on Robotics — Kits and Demos.” Sylvia’s MakerBot was heating plastic, which then squirted onto a heated platform, to be transformed into something new and wonderful.”
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“we came across these cartoons he had saved for six decades — the “Hall of Fame of the Air” (HFA). Every Sunday in the late 1930’s, newspapers ran this cartoon feature, depicting the feats of legendary aces and early aviators. Next to each pilot, an airplane associated with him was shown.”
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WW2 and Aviation – Facts, History, and Pictures
World War Two & Aviation History”
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Massachusetts Technology Standards and Expectations
list of tasks, skills and knowledge by greade-level
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Temporal Distortion | The Big Picture
“Milky Way, Aurora and other night timelapse”
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National Environmental Education Week | How can you green your city with STEM?
“high school students – Green Your City. What’s an idea using Science, Technology, Engineering or Math that can help green your city? Almost 90 high school students from around the country submitted entries, each answering the question in their own creative way. With over 2,500 YouTube “Like” votes and a combined 15,000 views of the 15 finalist videos,
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