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• Learn Sarver Heart Center’s Continuous Chest Compression CPR | Arizona Health Sciences Center

  This short video illustrates the best demonstration and gives the simplest explanation of exactly what to do if someone near you collapses and is presumably having a heart attack. You could very well save the life of a friend or loved one. Someone you share this video with might save your life!

  Tags: resources, video, biology

  • – By valerie taylor

• Welcome to CK-12 Foundation | CK-12 Foundation

  “Free educational resources.
  Standards-aligned and customizable.”

  Tags: k-8, open, resources, textbooks, math, science

  • – By valerie taylor

• Mopic

  dozens of old news footage about aviation history

  Tags: resources, video, aviation, history, military

  • – By valerie taylor

• Girls With Wings Aviation Scholarship Information

  “Congratulations to our winners
  for the 2012 Summer Girls With
  Wings Scholarship award.”

  Tags: aviation, women, pilot, scholarships

  • – By valerie taylor

• AV8RS – The Future of Aviation

  “Introducing AOPA AV8RS, AOPA’s new youth membership free to teens aged 13 to 18. Through AV8RS, you’ll be introduced to the world of aviation and given the support and encouragement to pursue your dreams and aspirations.

  AV8RS membership includes a digital subscription to Flight Training magazine, access to members-only content on aopa.org, special AV8RS social communities through Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and tumblr, a dedicated AV8RS blog, opportunities to win flight training scholarships and more. “

  Tags: aviation, education, AOPA

  • – By valerie taylor

• Video: A Retro-Sci-Fi Tour of Mars Rover Curiosity’s Awesome Chemistry Lab | Popular Science

  “As we approach the Mars rover Curiosity’s landing Sunday night, we’re having a lot of fun seeing all the promotions — there are all kinds of videos, museum exhibits and road shows to help explain what the newest interplanetary explorer will do. Below is a great new one from the American Chemical Society.

  Curiosity is a well-equipped geologist, traveling to Mars with a suite of tools to bake and pulverize rock, but it’s also a trained chemist, capable of detecting the ingredients necessary for life as we know it. It’s the first explorer to be able to do this. “

  Tags: aerospace, NASA, chemistry, video, resources

  • – By valerie taylor

• CK-12 Biology Concepts | CK-12 Foundation

  “CK-12 Biology Concepts”

  Tags: k-8, iPad, biology, resources, free, textbooks

  • – By valerie taylor

• Engineering: An Introduction for High School | CK-12 Foundation

  “Introduction to Engineering

  The nature of engineering and it’s societal impact are covered, as well as the educational and legal requirements needed to become an engineer.”

  Tags: k-8, iPad, engineering, resources, free, textbooks

  • – By valerie taylor

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