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Project Learning in Action: The Wing Strength Design Project | Edutopia
“Aviation High School, in Seattle, Washington, is described as “the premier public high school of choice for students . . . who wish to pursue their passion for aviation and aerospace in a learning environment that prepares them for higher education, citizenship, and work.”
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Software Kids – Science Technology Engineering Math Software
“science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) software that bridges the gap between the excitement of gaming and the fundamentals of curriculum-based learning. We are an extremely passionate educational software company committed to one mission: creating relevant, exciting and useful educational software with the same level of quality found in entertainment titles.
Our newest product, Time Engineers, teaches engineering, science, and math without leaving the fun of gaming behind. Students travel in a cool time machine to three different time periods and encounter typical engineering problems to be solved in order to build pyramids, irrigate farm land, command a WWII submarine, raise and lower medieval drawbridges, and much more.”
- – By valerie taylor
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Edheads – The Compound Machine
“Learn how forces and simple machines can work together to create The Compound Machine!”
- – By valerie taylor
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Using Dropbox in the Classroom
“Dropbox can also be a useful tool in managing student projects and presentations. In my classes students use Dropbox to submit the visual components of class presentations, for instance. It’s a huge time saver, as it otherwise takes several minutes for students to log in/out of their school accounts to access presentations. If you don’t have individual accounts, you’ll quickly find ways to let Dropbox help you work around that issue.”
- – By valerie taylor
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7 Key Findings for Successful Education Technology Integrations
“nearly 1,000 schools and uncovered a replicable design for successfully introducing technology into the classroom, improving student performance, and yielding cost benefits.”
- – By valerie taylor
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Straight From Students: Smart Tips for Searching Online | MindShift
“There are many questions you can ask yourself, and many things to look for when you are considering the relevance of web sites.”
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The Palauan jellyfish – environmentalresearchweb
“The Palauan jellyfish, Mastigias. The researchers placed green fluorescent dye upstream of the animal body. As the animal continued to swim, it interacted with the dye volume and pulled a volume of dye along with it. This volume of fluid moving with the animal is drift (first identified by Sir Charles Darwin, the grandson of the Origin of Species author).”
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Engineering immersion program in Columbus schools expands after success of pilot program
“program combines geometry with an Introduction to Engineering and Design in a freshman-year class that all New Tech ninth-graders must take. – combination gives students a way to apply their geometry knowledge to a real-world field so they can better understand its importance in a possible, eventual career. – second year, which combines Algebra 2 with Principles of Engineering,”
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LiveLeak.com – Model Jet Yak 130 Just Like The Real Deal
“Model Jet Yak 130 Just Like The Real Deal”
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Apps in Education: Talking Avatars – Great for Submitting Talks
“apps where the students are still presenters but do so digitally. This means they can share the presentation, embed it in the digital portfolio and even let mum and dad see their work. Some of these even allow you to create an avatar or use a photo and then import it into the app to have your students present as themselves.”
- – By valerie taylor
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Create the perfect class website in 30 minutes or less | The Edublogger
“Every teacher should have a class website to keep students and parents up-to-date.
Even more important is keeping this website updated regularly – ideally on a daily or weekly basis. But don’t worry about updating just yet, there are tips at the end on how to make the regular updates easily possible!”- – By valerie taylor
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“The Naked Scientists are a media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public. Their award winning BBC weekly radio programme, The Naked Scientists, reaches a potential audience of 6 million listeners across the east of England, and also has an international following on the web.”
- – By valerie taylor
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Hard-Hat Sensor Short-Circuits Carbon Monoxide Poisoning – IEEE Spectrum
“wearable computing and prevention-through-design to develop a practical sensing and alarm system that can tell when a worker’s blood oxygen level is cratering and prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.
The result was a standard construction hard-hat modified to include a non-invasive blood-oxygen monitor.”
- – By valerie taylor
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Giant Solar-Powered UAVs Are Atmospheric Satellites – IEEE Spectrum
“The Solara is intended to lift a payload to 20,000 meters and then keep it there for five years, running entirely on solar power. It functions a bit like a satellite, except substantially cheaper and much more versatile. And, you can get it back when you’re done.”
- – By valerie taylor
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