Posted on March 18th, 2010 by ASEE
This competition is to create a Jingle for the USA Science & Engineering Festival. It will be heard and sung by hundreds of thousands of science enthusiasts across the country. Submission Deadline: March 31, 2010. Prize for the winning Jingle: $500.
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Posted on March 17th, 2010 by ASEE
The 2009 Women in Science Booklet is produced by Science/AAAS in collaboration with the L’Oréal Corporate Foundation. The interview profiles of young women at the start of their science careers tell their stories of passion and persistence —what drives and excites them about their work in the sciences. Girls, boys, and educators will find fun and inspiration in these pages and learn a little about life as a scientist.
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Posted on March 17th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
Many schools include project-based learning in their classes, but few have embraced the concept quite as completely as the Da Vinci Science and Design schools in Hawthorne, Calif. “Actually, PBL is not worked into the curriculum, it is our curriculum,” says Nicole Tempel, Da Vinci Principal. Nearly every aspect of learning is tied to a project.
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by ASEE
Engineering Discovery Days, April 23 and 24, continues the tradition of sharing the work of the College of Engineering, U. Washington, with students, teachers and families. While both days are free and open to all, each day has a primary focus. Registration is required for groups of 10 or more and for groups arriving in buses.
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Tags: Grades 4 - 8, Grades 9-12, Programs for Families, Programs for Students, Programs for Teachers, Weekend programs
Posted on March 15th, 2010 by ASEE
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has launched Mission:Science, a new Web site created specifically for teenagers. Through Mission:Science, teens can access current NASA spacecraft data for school science projects, conduct real experiments with NASA scientists and locate space-related summer internships.
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by ASEE
AIAA, dedicated to the global aerospace profession, supports a Website with a number of helpful resources for teachers, including: a 1903 Wright Flyer Simulation, Interactive Activities
Fun Activities, Puzzles & Games, Books & Movies, Homework Help, Engineering Links, and K-12 Curriculum.
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by ASEE
President Obama has proposed major changes for the nation’s space program. His budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration would cancel the agency’s program to send astronauts back to the Moon, invest in new space technologies and turn to commercial companies for transportation beyond low-Earth orbit. But the plan has drawn skeptical and at times hostile questioning from members of Congress.
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by ASEE
The Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) is a remotely sensed data management, systems development, and research field center for the U.S. Geological Survey, part of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Teachers will find on the site aerial photography, satellite imagery, digitized maps and a vast image gallery, and well as online imaging programs such as EarthExplorer, the USGS Geographic Data Download, and the USGS Web Mapping Portal.
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by ASEE
NASA’s Multimedia Gallery provides educators a wealth of supporting material, from an extensive image gallery — featuring current and historic NASA missions, the planets of the universe, and the latest material from the Hubble Space telescope –videos, podcasts, NASA television, blogs, and interactive features.
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