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Future City Competition

[like] Future City is a competition for 6th thru 8th grade students that requires them to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future.  This STEM oriented program emphasizes citywide sustainability issues.  This year’s topic is waste management. Students are judged on a SimCity design, … Continue reading

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Multimedia Science Materials On Teachers Pay Teachers Site

[like] Multimedia Science creates teaching software and materials in the areas of Teacher Tools, Physics, and Chemistry.   These materials can be found on the Teachers Pay Teachers site.  

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Multimedia Science Pinterest Science Pins

[like] Visit Multimedia Science’s Pinterest site for pins of available physics and chemistry materials and pins from other sites. Multimedia Science Physics Pinterest Site Multimedia Science Science Pinterest Site Multimedia Science Chemistry Pinterest Site

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Free Adding Two Vectors Software

[like] Get your free copy of Multimedia Science’s Adding Two Vectors software. Go to Multimedia Science’s Teachers Pay Teachers Site. Adding Two Vectors – Maximum and Minimum is a piece of software designed to illustrate how to find the maximum and minimum … Continue reading

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Science – Analyzing Angry Birds

[like] This is a screen capture video from the game Angry Birds, which almost everyone has played, seen, or at least heard of. In this video, one of the blue birds turns into three birds after being launched into the … Continue reading

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Using Science Videos Effectively

[like] Turns out that students watching science videos may easily miss the point of the video due to their own strongly held misconceptions.  Including  these misconceptions in the video may help solve the problem.  Can teachers circumvent this dilemma by discussing these student preconceived … Continue reading

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