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12 Apps To Effortlessly Keep Your Life In Sync | Time Management Ninja
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Times Tables Quiz! (Multiplication Trainer) for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
Think you know your times tables?”
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Scraping the sky: Skyscrapers today
“As New York makes decisions about the World Trade Center site, The Why Files wonders: Why is a city’s skyline so important? What does it symbolize? What kind of strengths hold up a skyscraper? Can “green skyscrapers” cut the environmental toll of large buildings?”
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National Science Standards and Classroom Activities | The Why Files
“Classroom Activity Pages
Looking for extra-credit projects? These pages have activities, discussion questions, and quizzes based on select stories. “ -
A Free Interactive iPad App To Teach Algebra – Edudemic
“For many students algebra seems too abstract and hard to learn. They often resort to ineffective memorization and in the long run find only frustration and failure. Now there’s a new free iPad app that can turn frustration into success. The Fun Way to Learn Algebra: Hands-On Equations 1 Lite gives even the youngest students visual and kinesthetic ways to understand abstract algebraic equations.”
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Intro to Engineering – Curricular Unit – www.TeachEngineering.org
“Students are introduced to the basic principles behind engineering and the types of engineering while learning about a popular topic – the Olympics. The involvement of engineering in modern sports is amazing and pervasive. Students learn about the techniques of engineering problem solving, including brainstorming and the engineering design process. The importance of thinking out of the box is stressed through a discussion of the engineering required to build grand, often complex, Olympic event centers.”
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The Engineering Design Process – www.TeachEngineering.org
“The engineering design process is a series of steps that engineering teams use to guide them as they solve problems. Anyone can do it! To determine how to build something (skyscraper, amusement park ride, bicycle, music player), engineers gather information and conduct research to understand the needs of the challenge to be addressed. Then they brainstorm many imaginative possible solutions. They select the most promising idea and embark upon a design that includes drawings, and analytical decisions on the materials and construction, manufacturing and fabrication technologies to use. They create and test many prototypes, making improvements until the product design is good enough to meet their needs. “
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Engineering Activities for Middle School Youth
“Engineering Activities for Middle School Youth The following activities were developed for middle school youth in afterschool settings with funding from National 4-H Council Rural Youth Development Grant Year 2 (2004-2005) “
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“Last week, after we issued our latest batch of iPads, I watched two students in the library, sitting across the table from one another, Facetiming each other and laughing. I watched kids sitting in our armchairs reading on their iPads, and a student on our library patio using hers to study. Moments like these remind me that it isn’t really about the device. It is, as always, about facilitating access to information, helping kids learn, and empowering them. That’s why librarians are so indispensable.”
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Pyramids: Top 10 Feats of Engineering: Science Channel
“Most likely the Egyptian pyramids were just built by some very hardworking Egyptians who toiled in the desert heat over 4,000 years ago. Built by commoners, the pyramids were intended as crypts for the kings and their construction was a massive effort.”
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Feats of Engineering Puzzles : Science Puzzles: Science Channel
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Building With Kids : BUILT : Science Channel
“We’ve put some of these projects into our Top 10 Construction Projects for Kids. Enjoy both the science and bragging rights in bringing these projects to life!”
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“the tallest bridge in France reaches higher than the Eiffel tower, or that a single dam in China can hold back 1.4 trillion cubic feet or water? Each of the projects depicted here has set at least one world record for its height, scale, daring or ingenuity. From Venice to Boston, Egypt to England, here are seven amazing engineering wonders of the modern world. “
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12 Modern Engineering Wonders (PHOTOS)
“Since the dawn of human history, man has been a builder. From the great Pyramids of Egypt to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower, the list of humankind’s construction feats is endless. Here are the Huffington Post’s picks of 12 recent engineering wonders from around the world”
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PLAY! New Media Literacies – PLAY! Framework
“The 5 Characteristics of Participatory Learning (CPLs)”
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