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New Principle of Wind Generated Electricity Discovered | Interesting Engineering
“Ewicon, which is shortage of “Electrostatic WInd Energy CONverter”, is able to generate electricity from wind energy, but not by transforming mechanical power into electrical energy. It does this by pushing charged particles through wind in a direction which is opposite of an electrical field. “
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Engineers, Inspiring a New Generation of What If – YouTube
“Watch how engineers are crossing engineering disciplines and industries to apply computing, technology, math and science to solve complex world problems. The video encourages viewers to think about how the 1.6 million engineers worldwide are behind some of the greatest innovations and inventions of modern times.”
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Illinois Pathways – Energy Cluster
“Developing, planning and managing the production of energy including renewable energy and clean coal technology and its distribution through smart grid technologies.”
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100 Women Leaders in STEM | STEM Connector
“100 Women Leaders in STEM showcases the careers and initiatives of more than one hundred women leaders who are active role models for the underrepresented segment of women in America’s growing shortage of STEM professionals. Also included are insiders’ perspectives about the traits needed to advance in the STEM professions, and how women in particular can make a difference.”
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Genetic engineering: a guide for kids by Tiki the Penguin
“What can genetic engineering do? Bigger, better, faster? Could it cure diseases?”
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“Without energy, there would be nothing: no life, no movement, no light, no heat, no you, no me… nothing. But there is a problem with energy. Some people have got used to using far too much of it.”
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Tiki the Penguin’s home page – for kids and for the planet
“loads of stuff for you here. Some is just fun (like jokes, quizzes and games) and some is more serious… about things like Energy, Pollution, Climate change, Life in danger, Eating the future, Whose genes? Who owns life, Food and Planet Earth’s nine lives: Our planet’s limits.”
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Properties of Materials – Science Games & Activities for Kids
“Learn about the properties of materials as you experiment with a variety of objects in this great science activity for kids. Discover the interesting characteristics of materials; are they flexible, waterproof, strong or transparent?”
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Engineering for Kids – Free Games, Cool Projects, Fun Experiments, Science Online
“Discover the world of engineering for kids with our range of free games, cool science fair projects, fun experiments, interesting facts, amazing videos, quizzes, worksheets and more!
Learn about bridges, buildings, electricity, flight and all kinds of interesting engineering topics. As well as activities for children, there are also lesson plans teachers, ideas for parents and free teaching resources for anyone interested in engineering and learning about science online.” -
Master Programs | Engineering for Kids
“Why teach engineering to children? Children are naturally curious about the world they live in. We build on that curiosity by teaching engineering concepts through hands-on learning.”
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engineering 4kids – Google Search
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Sam Pearce’s Loopwheel: Tangential Suspension for Bikes – Core77
“It’s called the Loopwheel, and its system of “tangential suspension”—essentially leaf springs folded back in on themselves—are not only workable, but they provide a gentler ride over sharp obstacles due to physics:”
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NASA Piggybacks SmartPhone Satellites > ENGINEERING.com
““Out of the box smartphones offer capabilities needed for satellites, including fast processors, versatile operating systems, multiple miniature sensors, high resolution cameras, GPS receivers and several radios,” said NASA. Add to all of those components the fact that cellphones are built to take a beating, and you can see why NASA has faith in the fact that these “PhoneSats” could bring about a new era of cheap space and earth science.”
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Playground Physics – Uncertain Principles
“angular momentum conservation problem– having ridden the thing, I can attest that the bearing is good enough that it doesn’t slow all that much during the 30-second span of the video, so we expect that the rate of rotation should increase as she moves to the center.”
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NASA – Engineering Units and Lessons for Grades 7-9
“Engineering Units and Lessons”
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“free games designed for students in grades 3-8:Search Shark: This game is a fun way to help students learn how to choose effective keywords when searching online. With Search Shark, students practice selecting keywords that are most relevant to a search prompt. Along the way, students discover hints for narrowing their search results, as well as how to identify the most effective keywords for different search scenarios.”
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Design Process Kills Creativity / Design Process Creates Creativity – Core77
“Having a design framework doesn’t just help you design better, it helps you communicate what happened better. And if someone is paying for your design work, I guarantee they will enjoy being on the inside of your process a bit more.”
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” story of Sophie Germain, an 18th-century woman who assumed a man’s identity in order to pursue her passion—attempting to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem.”
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NOVA Online | The Proof | Pythagorean Puzzle
“What it means is that in a right triangle (where one angle equals 90°), the sum of the squares of two sides equals the square of the hypotenuse (the longest side). “
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3D printer can build synthetic tissues – University of Oxford
“A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues, Oxford University scientists have demonstrated. The new type of material consists of thousands of connected water droplets, encapsulated within lipid films, which can perform some of the functions of the cells inside our bodies.”
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The Roentgens’ Berlin Secretary Cabinet – YouTube
“One of the finest achievements of European furniture making, this cabinet is the most important product from Abraham (1711–1793) and David Roentgen’s (1743–1807) workshop. A writing cabinet crowned with a chiming clock, it features finely designed marquetry panels and elaborate mechanisms that allow for doors and drawers to be opened automatically at the touch of a button. Owned by King Frederick William II, the Berlin cabinet is uniquely remarkable for its ornate decoration, mechanical complexity, and sheer size.”
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Financial Education Games for Kids
“Resources by topic: Games for Kids – Links to games that teach kids about money. “
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“Budget Odyssey Grades: 6-8, 9-12 Type: Flash
In this game, students click the spinner to see how far their car will advance. After each spin, they will be asked to categorize expenses. If they get it right, they’ll be one step closer to winning. But if they get it wrong, they’re sent backwards.” -
Learning 2.0 is Dumb: Use ‘Connected Learning’ Instead
” ‘Connected Learning’ is part formal, part informal and part social, there will always be the act of ‘connecting’ one’s self to people, content, systems, networks, etc. during the learning process itself … and it may occur through several mediums.
Formal: a self-contained & scheduled learning event, typically but not always tracked, providing a comprehensive and at times logical or sequential approach to a topic.
Informal: an opportunity without conventionalism, atypical to formal learning, providing guidance, expertise or acumen on the go.
Social: an exchange of ideas, knowledge or information typically characterized by friendly interaction through online services that provides supplemental understanding often via personal & professional networks.”
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Apps in Education: ArtSet – Great for building confidence in young artists
“a workflow to illustrate how a series of apps might be able to be used to deepen student learning. The idea was the the product of one app would become the input for the next. The story of The Lion and the Mouse was suggested as an idea. Each presenter was given three minutes only. There was a cross section of both primary and secondary teachers in the group.”
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100 Under $100: the Women’s Global Toolkit: Keyhole Garden by A Good Foundation: Picture of the Week
“Lesotho Keyhole gardens are round raised beds with waist-high containing walls. In Lesotho these are fashioned from large stones, making them not only very sturdy, but also very beautiful. They feature a central vertical basket, which you see here defined by four branches. There is a pie-piece cut out in the circle, allowing direct access to the center, where this young woman is standing. Hence the “keyhole” moniker, based on its shape.”
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100 Under $100: the Women’s Global Toolkit
“Women need access to the tools that will help them empower themselves – my forthcoming book will tell 100 stories of how that can happen!”
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Top 10 Posts of 2012: Deep, Meaningful and Creative Learning | MindShift
“Giving kids the tools to create, teachers the freedom to innovate, making students’ work relevant in the real world, giving them access to valuable technology. “
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E-Waste – Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
“Electronic waste (e-waste) encompasses a wide range of discarded electronic devices such as computers, mp3 players, televisions and cell phones. Just one computer can contain hundreds of chemicals, including lead, mercury, cadmium, brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Many of these chemicals are known to cause cancer, respiratory illness and reproductive problems.”
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Videos – Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
recycle highly toxic waste materials under perilous conditions.
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GeorgiaCOE: Torrance Center: Creativity Resources
“Creativity Carnival- MS PowerPoint Format or Adobe PDF Format
Why Should Schools Be Interested in Creativity?- MS PowerPoint Format or Adobe PDF Format
Championing Creativity – MS PowerPoint format
Cartooning – MS PowerPoint format
Importance of Creativity – MS PowerPoint format
10.5 Strategies – MS PowerPoint format or .PDF format” -
Is It Possible to Measure Creativity? | MindShift
“Torrance set out to change that, or at least to prove that creativity was as important as intelligence, not just in the arts, but in every field. As part of that mission, he devised a number of ways to test for creativity. Today, the system he created is called the Torrance Test.”
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Robert Hooke – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
” assistant to Thomas Willis and to Robert Boyle, for whom he built the vacuum pumps used in Boyle’s gas law experiments. He built some of the earliest Gregorian telescopes, observed the rotations of Mars and Jupiter and, based on his observations of fossils, was an early proponent of biological evolution.[2][3] He investigated the phenomenon of refraction, deducing the wave theory of light, and was the first to suggest that matter expands when heated and that air is made of small particles separated by relatively large distances. He performed pioneering work in the field of surveying and map-making and was involved in the work that led to the first modern plan-form map, though his plan for London on a grid system was rejected in favour of rebuilding along the existing routes. He also came near to an experimental proof that gravity follows an inverse square law, and hypothesised that such a relation governs the motions of the planets, an idea which was subsequently developed by Newton.[4] Much of Hooke’s scientific work was conducted in his capacity as curator of experiments of the Royal Society, a post he held from 1662, or as part of the household of Robert Boyle.”
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