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Friday Find: Best iPad/iPhone Science Apps for Kids (ages 4-21) UPDATED2 : PragmaticMom
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The iPad and Maths – Are we there yet? Pt 2 (non Math apps do the job?)
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iPads can’t improve learning without good teaching Pt 2 – Writing
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The iPad and Maths – Are we there yet? Pt 1
comprehensive post that looks at teaching and learning math and includes dozens of apps
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Apps in Education: Maths iPad Apps
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Bridge Basher iPhone App Review
“you build an intricate bridge, and then destroy it using the physics engine that is built in. This bridge basher app realistically lets you see how your bridge stacks up to forces in real time. “
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Touch Physics | Mind Leap: Education Apps for Kids
“The shapes you draw interact with the wheel to make it move. Touch Physics has settings for multiple users so the whole family can give it go.”
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Learn to Program With Move the Turtle | GeekDad | Wired.com
“beginners to learn programming concepts in a hands-on, non-theoretical way. The app consists of giving instructions to a turtle who moves around the screen trying to capture diamonds. It teaches basic programming concepts through a game type interface. Kids can try out their programs and see them run visually on the screen as the turtle moves about. They can then edit their program to complete the given task”
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148Apps » iPhone and iPod Touch Application Reviews and News
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Solar Walk Review » 148Apps » iPhone and iPod Touch Application Reviews and News
“Solar Walk pieces together each planet in real time and real location to give a fully accurate view of where things are, where things have been and where things are going in space. Simply tap on the planet that you wish to explore closer up.”
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Imagination Soup | Fun Learning and Play Activities for Kids
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Tapose: Collaborative Content Creation with Multitasking Built in! | iPad Curriculum
“Tapose could be a great place for students to construct an eportfolio because of the ability to easily combine different mediums. Parents, teachers and others who view the eportfolio can easily search, using the search feature, to find exactly what they are looking for.”
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blog, uses categories in pulldown format for retrieval
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Math Girl Addition House | iPad Curriculum
“build their own customized playhouse by adding flowers”
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“TeacherPlan is a professional educational toolkit, packed with hundreds of teaching ideas. TeacherPlan provides a shiny, clean new way to plan how you engage learners.
Possible Classroom Uses:
Take three steps within the app to prepare your lesson plans. Enter the topic you will be teaching, choose what you will do and then customize and save to your calendar.”
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Teaching Appz | A directory of educational apps that can be used in the classroom.
reviews include – possible classroom use
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Math Evolve | Best Apps for Kids : reviews, news and promo codes for iPhone / iPad / iPod apps
“Math Evolve is a top notch math app, appropriate for kids ages 7 and up. It brings subtraction, addition, multiplication and division to life, and it’s just plain fun.”
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“Find Me is a game designed to help young children with autism practice simple social skills. It is suitable for play by children with an ability level equivalent to 18 months or over, and doesn’t require any language or reading.”
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Khan Academy | Mind Leap: Education Apps for Kids
“the app doesn’t come with all the videos, but you can choose to download them by subject. “
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Mind Leap: Education Apps for Kids – best iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch apps for kids
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Rocket Math App for iPhone, iPod, iPad | Mind Leap: Education Apps for Kids
“do math problems because they love creating and launching rockets. You can choose the math level – easy, med, hard (hard is akin to 11×12 or 234/13), and the equation type – addition, sub, mult, division”
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Fun Educational Apps: Best Apps for Kids Reviews iPad / iPhone / iPod
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Simple Physics | Best Apps for Kids : reviews, news and promo codes for iPhone / iPad / iPod apps
“toys taught children early lessons in physics, problem solving, and critical thinking. But never fear – there’s an app for that! Simple Physics allows these lessons to be brought back into play, by using technology to simulate hands-on experiences.”
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Best Apps for Kids : reviews, news and promo codes for iPhone / iPad / iPod apps |
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“whole family: Toddler section is for the little ones, Genius for the parents and anything between for the others”
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AppSafari | iPhone Apps, iPad apps, iPod touch App Reviews
“Reviews of the best new iPhone apps daily since 2007.”
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e-blahblah » Blog Archive » 10 Top iPhone Apps for Teaching & Learning
“How can you use it?
Point out basic parts of sentences
After building a sentence, draw a picture that illustrates their understanding of the sentence
Share sentences and drawings with teachers and colleagues
Create an animation using the drawings
Use it as a formative assessment tool” -
“Learn about a day in the life of Taylor, a handheld-using fifth grader”
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Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand – Project Based Learning and iPads/iPods
“sample project. It addresses the question,”What makes a good vice president?””
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with iPod Touches – Learning Continuity
“”Apps” that we have on the AUHSD iPod Touches that can help with continuity of learning” 210 items
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“Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram – mind map, concept map, or flow chart – and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Idea Sketch for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more!”
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App Store – Brain Tuner Lite (Free)
“Get your brain in shape with Brain Tuner, a great math game for all ages. It takes less than a minute a day to tune your brain! Like a Brain Age exercise.”
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“apps for literacy — reading and writing for toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary-age kids. Also, I’ve included special needs iPad app resources”
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“most apps won’t instruct but will give practice, repetition, and reinforcement.”
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Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand – iPod touch and iPhone in Education
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Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand – Blog – Educational Apps Mentioned on Twitter #edapp
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Apps in Education: 10 Best Apps 4 Teachers
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“share your notes from anywhere with Dropbox sync — collaborate with friends, keep your notes on all your iOS devices, and even add, edit, and modify them on your Mac and PC. “
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Top 50 Free Education Apps | iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch App Store App Reviews
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Reviews of the Best iPhone Apps For Moms, By a Mom | The iPhone Mom
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Top 10 Back to School iPhone Apps
“handy educational tools and reference guides”
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13 Notable Note Taking Apps for iPhone | iPhone.AppStorm
“simple apps that are enough for quickly taking down a song name or a simple list, but also more complex apps that meet specific needs.”
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“The best way to keep your school life organized.
myHomework tracks your classes, homework and projects so you never forget an assignment again.” -
Guest Post: 10 “Real Food” Mobile Apps « 100 Days of Real Food
“apps that will help busy families. So without further ado, here’s my list of top ten apps for healthy foodie families”
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App Store – Pocket First Aid & CPR from the American Heart Association
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8 Must-Have Education Apps for iPhone | Edu in Review Blog
” learn Spanish, practice their typing skills, and view priceless works of art.”
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Barefoot World Atlas for iPad on the iTunes App Store
“Barefoot World Atlas is an interactive 3D globe for iPad that invites children to explore the regions and countries of the world, discovering hundreds of fascinating features and immersing themselves in the rich wonders of our planet.”
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“The Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle grades. Learners stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more.”
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iClassify Triangles: Part 2 « techchef4u
“stand-alone geometry resource or an additional app-tivity to support the initial iLesson.”
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“A simple App made in 40 minutes to help students make a story using the story spine technique. Copy the result and paste it into wherever you want.”
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Find science lessons for k-12
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Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share
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The Ninety-Nines, Inc. | Resource Center | AE Memorial Scholarships
“The 2013 Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Applications and 2013 New Pilot Award Scholarship Application will be available in Mid to Late July 2012.”
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“In this series of lessons, students learn about the major plant structures and explore their functions.”
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Gary Connery, Stuntman, Makes 2,400-Foot Jump Without Parachute (VIDEO)
“A British stuntman jumped from a helicopter 2,400 feet above the ground Wednesday in Oxfordshire, England, making him the first man to successfully skydive without a parachute from such a height, the 42-year-old Englishman wore a wingsuit, which helped him glide toward the ground while managing speeds of around 80 mph, according to the Independent. “
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Seven Questions for Stephen Hawking: What Would He Ask Albert Einstein & More | Open Culture
“If Stephen Hawking could talk with Albert Einstein, what would he say?
“I would ask him why he didn’t believe in black holes,” says Hawking in this video from Time magazine. “The field equations of his General Theory of Relativity implied that a large star or cloud of gas would collapse in on itself and form a black hole.” -
“The Drop Out! It was seriously addictive, we just couldn’t put it down!
“The Furrie little creatures are stuck and they need help! Grab a Boo in this thrilling physics world and drop them to safety but beware the Evil Furries have a plan of their own.”” -
Great posters and life advice, some humorous, all worth considering
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NASA – Juno Spacecraft to Carry Three Figurines to Jupiter Orbit
“NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft will carry the 1.5-inch likeness of Galileo Galilei, the Roman god Jupiter and his wife Juno to Jupiter when the spacecraft launches this Friday, Aug. 5. The inclusion of the three mini-statues, or figurines, is part of a joint outreach and educational program developed as part of the partnership between NASA and the LEGO Group to inspire children to explore science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “
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PodOmatic | Podcast – Learning About Teaching Physics
“we discuss the research on individual learning styles, and how science learning requires us to blend the visual and the verbal.”
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New podcast: Learning About Teaching Physics
“Learning About Teaching Physics, and our amazing local high school teacher Michael Fuchs is co-hosting it with me. “
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Pinterest technology, amazing assortment of activities for primary grades
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“Story Spine Teacher-Created Apptivity: It is always refreshing when I come across innovative and purposeful classroom integration ideas as the ones Ashley Solomon (8th grade ACL & Reading Workshop at Ed White Middle School) shared below using the app Story Spine:”
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“The teacher uses the Content Tool to create multimedia presentations and then share the content with the students. The Teacher app allows the teacher to control the activity also. Students receive content and assessments on their device and then can submit answers and responses. The teacher can use the Reporting tool to monitor what the students are doing and collect their responses, assess their learning and gather data.
The multimedia presentations start with a PDF file and then quizzes, polls, videos, activities and more can be added.”
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Educational Technology Guy: NASA views dark side of the moon – students to be able to study soon
“NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) program (Ebb and Flow), which is creating a high resolution map of the moon’s gravitational field, has also captured footage from the dark side of the moon as part of the MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) program. MoonKAM will allow US students to study different parts of the lunar surface using imagery from the Ebb and Flow satellites. “
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APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.”
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Cottage Hill: Recycled Newspaper Pots
newspaper pots to sow them in and get them started. The pots are super easy to make, free, and earth friendly. And once your seedlings are old enough to move out on their own you just pop them into the ground — paper pot and all. “
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NASA – Flying Formation – Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH
“Essentially, trail formation means one aircraft (or spacecraft in this case), follows directly behind the other. Ebb and Flow, the twins of NASA’s GRAIL (Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory) mission, are by no means the first to synch up altitude and “air” speed while zipping over the craters, mountains, hills and rills of Earth’s natural satellite. “
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Virtual exercises help Army, Air Force work together – YouTube
“Exercises Virtual Bear and Winged Warrior use high tech tools to help Canadian Forces navigate joint operations.”
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Space Garbage: The Dark Cloud Above | Photo Gallery | Smithsonian.com
“Space Garbage: The Dark Cloud Above
After decades of space exploration, there are now more than 500,000 pieces of artificial debris greater than half an inch in size.”
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“Sure, there are plenty of apps you can use in education. There are even apps created specifically for use in education. Apple has a whole category dedicated to education in the App store. But how do you really know which ones are worth downloading, or possibly even paying for?”
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Density Tower – Magic with Science at Steve Spangler Science
“With this trick, you’ll put a new spin on our famous Density Column demonstration. First, we’ll teach you how to make layers of liquid sit on top of each other. This density demonstration looks cool, but what if you could make different objects float in the middle of those cool looking liquids? You’ll impress yourself and your friends with what you can do with your Density Tower.”
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“Free Math Clipart for teachers! Over 9,960 images for algebra, geometry, trigonometry, probability, money, number sense, and more. This collection of illustrations for teachers and students consists of clipart for all levels of K-12 math classes. Included are coordinate and polar grids, graphs, number lines, clocks, patterns, flashcards, protractors, thermometers, fractions, geometric shapes & solids, angles & lines, bags of marbles, spinners, constructions, theorems & proofs, and dice. From the common place to the hard-to-find clipart, everything an educator needs for activities, assessments, and presentations can be found here.”
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Film Video – Kingston Aviation
several other videos associated with this site, including a Sopwith Camel and a Spitfire in formation.
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How-To Geek – Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek
Welcome to the How-To Geek, the friendliest source of “how-to” articles anywhere.
What Is The Goal of the How-To Geek Site?
To be the best source of How-To articles anywhere, with content easy enough for beginners but useful enough for geeks as well. -
“Matter & Interactions is a textbook by Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood that emphasizes a modern perspective on the calculus-based introductory physics curriculum taken by engineering and science students. It engages students in:
Starting analyses from fundamental principles rather than from secondary formulas.
Making macro-micro connections, based on the atomic nature of matter.” -
The Physics of The Hulk’s Jump | Wired Science | Wired.com
“There are lots of things to look at in this short clip, but I like The Hulk. What kind of forces would The Hulk exert on the ground during a jump? Before guessing at some of the parameters, let me start with a general case. Here is the jumping Hulk in three positions “
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How to Count Infinity – YouTube
“”Some infinities are bigger than other infinities” “
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“Lindbergh Does It! To Paris in 33 1/2 Hours; Flies 1,000 Miles Through Snow and Sleet; Cheering French Carry Him Off Field
Crowd Roars Thunderous Welcome
Breaks Through Lines of Soldiers and Police and Surging to Plane Lifts Weary Flier from His Cockpit “
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Spirit of St. Louis – Milestones of Flight
“On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis” 5,810 kilometers (3,610 miles) between Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, and Paris, France, in 33 hours, 30 minutes. With this flight, Lindbergh won the $25,000 prize offered by New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first aviator to fly an aircraft directly across the Atlantic between New York and Paris. When he landed at Le Bourget Field in Paris, Lindbergh became a world hero who would remain in the public eye for decades. “
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Numberphile – Videos about Numbers and Stuff
Numberphile is a quirky exploration of the world of mathematics and numbers. Each video explores strange facts, properties and curious stories about different numbers – from zero to infinity (and a few outside this range). The films feature experts across a range of sciences and are produced by independent video journalist Brady Haran.
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Using a protractor to measure angles
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A List of 20 Free Tools for Teachers to Create Awesome Presentations and Slideshows
“Creating presentations and slideshows is one of the needed skills for both teachers and students. Unfortunately many teachers still find it hard to arrange data into a catchy slideshow to share with students.
Below is a list of some of the best free tools teachers and students can use to create awesome slideshow and presentations. I have already reviewed all of these tools and therefore attest to their usability.” -
“The Florida Wing of the CAF currently operates one Navion L-17 aircraft. The Navion, named “Allie Gator”, was the first aircraft restored by the Florida Wing. Our next restoration project is a Grumman TBM-3 “Avenger” torpedo-bomber. We are planning to fly the TBM on its inaugural flight on or before May 15, 2014. All it takes is time, money and the hard work of the members and invited guests of the Florida Wing of the CAF.”
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“Do you want to take your middle-school science students on a field trip without breaking the budget? Wish you had an alternative?
Purdue zipTrips™ is the answer!! These free electronic field trips will bring a new experience in science education directly to your school.” -
Electricty Misconceptions Spread By Textbooks
“How does ‘electricity’ work? If you’ve learned about electricity from grade-school textbooks, then first we have to do some “debunking” and find out how electricity DOESN’T work. “
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“AP Physics Project 2011 by Neela Easwar and Marion Wellington
Background music taken from Bust A Move by Young MC
by the way…WE GOT AN A!” -
“In 2011, 115 XO were deployed at two schools in Kingston, Jamaica. Volunteers from around the world were invited by Craig Perue, the project manager, and went to meet students, parents and teachers.”
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“Neurons—the electrically excitable cells that make up the brain and nervous system—first fascinated me in high school. In college, like so many other students studying the brain, I dutifully memorized the structure of the archetypal neuron. I also remember learning about a few different types of neurons with different shapes and functions: motor neurons that make muscles twitch, for example, and unique sensory neurons in the eyes and nose.”
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The beautiful shapes of neurons – Boing Boing
“neurons came in such a beautiful diversity of shapes. Each of these neurons has a different function, too: A. Purkinje cell B. Granule cell C. Motor neuron D. Tripolar neuron E. Pyramidal Cell F. Chandelier cell G. Spindle neuron H. Stellate cell.”
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History of Glaciers in Glacier National Park | Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK)
“History of Glaciers in Glacier National Park
Aerial photos of Chaney Glacier showing decrease in glacial area. 1850s margin was delineated from morainal evidence, 2005 margin delineated by GPS.The history of glaciation within current Glacier National Park boundaries spans centuries of glacial growth and recession, carving the features we see today. “ -
The Write Question: David Shapiro and Ice Age Cataclysm!
In Terra Tempo: Ice Age Cataclysm!, a graphic novel for young readers, Ari, Jenna, and Caleb unlock the secret of time travel and journey back 15,000 years to witness the great Missoula Floods, the largest floods to have ever washed over the face of the earth.
This daring trio encounters a charging short-faced bear, giant mammoths, and saber-toothed cats. They tour changing landscapes from the back of the mythic Thunderbird and work together to survive the dangers of the Ice Age Cataclysm!”
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LEDs with Arduino- an introduction- aht0led
“This page covers the simple case of driving LEDs directly with Arduino pins. The same information would be helpful to users of PICs and other sources of digital output lines. It does not go into the more interesting matter of multiplexed LEDs.”
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“Arduino examples, tutorials, and documentation elsewhere on the web. “
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“Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. “
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Arduino Tutorial – Learn electronics and microcontrollers using Arduino!
“solid introduction to microcontrollers and basic electronics. “
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Bloom’s Taxonomy and iPad Apps | Langwitches Blog
“LearningToday shares with everyone two beautiful posters, that help us remember Bloom’s Taxonomy: the Blooming Butterfly and the Blooming Orange”
