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The Best Sites For Learning About The Mars Rover Curiosity | Larry Ferlazzo's... - 0 views

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    "The Best Sites For Learning About The Mars Rover Curiosity: Mars Science Laboratory - interactive is from The Guardian. Meet Curiosity, NASA's New $2.5 Billion Mars Rover is from The Atlantic." ..updated periodically
valerie taylor

High-Res Curiosity Rover Self-Portrait - 0 views

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    "Check out every intimate detail of NASA's Curiosity rover sitting at its home in Gale crater on Mars in this amazing high-resolution self portrait"
valerie taylor

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Made With Lego Mindstorms | GeekDad | Wired.com - 0 views

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    "LEGO MINDSTORMS model of the Mars Curiosity Rover for the Build the Future in Space event at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The rover contains 1000′s of LEGO Technic and MINDSTORMS bricks, and is 100% pure LEGO with no glue."
valerie taylor

Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation - YouTube - 0 views

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    "This 11-minute animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012. A shorter 4-minute version of this animation, with narration"
valerie taylor

Mars in a Minute: How Hard Is It to Land Curiosity on Mars? - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Landing the Curiosity rover on Mars is the most difficult and nail-biting part of the whole mission. See just how hard it is to land on Mars in this 60-second video."
valerie taylor

Mars Rover Finds Transparent 'Flower' Embedded In Rock (PICTURES) - 0 views

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    "A mysterious photograph of a bright, crumpled object on Mars taken by the Curiosity rover has caused controversy, after some dubbed it a "Martian flower". The shiny, white object was pictured embedded in a rock, in an image taken by the Mars Hand Lens."
valerie taylor

7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing | Video - YouTube - 0 views

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    "NASA's Curiosity rover is a 1-ton robot that will make an unprecedented Mars landing on Aug. 5, 2012. See how the risky maneuver will keep rover team members in suspense for 7 fateful minutes."
valerie taylor

Video: A Retro-Sci-Fi Tour of Mars Rover Curiosity's Awesome Chemistry Lab | Popular Sc... - 0 views

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    "As we approach the Mars rover Curiosity's landing Sunday night, we're having a lot of fun seeing all the promotions - there are all kinds of videos, museum exhibits and road shows to help explain what the newest interplanetary explorer will do. Below is a great new one from the American Chemical Society. Curiosity is a well-equipped geologist, traveling to Mars with a suite of tools to bake and pulverize rock, but it's also a trained chemist, capable of detecting the ingredients necessary for life as we know it. It's the first explorer to be able to do this. "
valerie taylor

Engineering Activities for the Elementary Classroom | eHow.com - 0 views

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    "Understanding the engineering process means understanding the way things work and how technology helps advance society. Leading children through engineering discoveries is to lead children through natural curiosity and learning experiences. "
valerie taylor

Curiosity Mars Rover Spins Its Wheels [720p] - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Uploaded by djxatlanta on Jul 13, 2010 The wheels that will touch down on Mars in 2012 are several rotations closer to spinning on the rocky trails of Mars. This video clip shows engineers in the JPL clean room where the rover is being assembled as they put all six wheels into motion for the first time. Engineers raised the rover just as a car mechanic would hoist a car to check the wheels, and started the "engine" to get the wheels rotating. The wheel mobility system has 10 motors in all-four for steering the rover and six for driving. During this test, all 10 motors ran in every direction. Each wheel spun forward and backwards. "
valerie taylor

Searching for daVinci - Introduction - 0 views

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    "True learners are multidimensional, they are passionately curious about the world around them. Leonardo da Vinci was the quintessential example of a Renaissance man. Scientist, inventor, painter, sculptor, architect, cartographer, mathematician- the list goes on. da Vinci had an insatiable curiosity and was deeply creative and innovative. da Vinci is still highly regarded as a brilliant creative genius, his thirst for learning is just as relevant today as it was 500 years ago. Is your classroom currently set up to foster the da Vinci's of the world? "
valerie taylor

3 Best Practices of Successful Science and Math Teachers | Teaching Science and Math - 1 views

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    "Among the many ways of measuring teacher success is the ability to engage students in teaching practices which excite and encourage their natural curiosity for learning. When these best practices are used in the classroom, then all other measures of success follow"
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Welcome to MegaMath! - 1 views

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    Mathematics is a live science with new discoveries being made every day. The frontier of mathematics is an exciting place, where mathematicians experiment and play with creative and imaginative ideas. ideas that have already piqued many children's curiosity, but their profound mathematical importance is not widely known or understood. The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together.
valerie taylor

Looking for topics for "Science of the City"? « co-creatingcultures - 0 views

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    "Here there are 72 ideas to look for science, mathematics or technology in your city … You can use any of our proposals, or you can keep looking for new ideas … There are millions of possibilities, just go out and start looking at the city with critical eyes, curiosity and willing to search for science phenomena"
valerie taylor

Friends of Berkeley Lab - 0 views

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    Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the Friends of Science is a forum for individuals who share the desire to enhance knowledge and understanding of science and technology. We are educators, students, community members, laboratory employees, and anyone else with a curiosity about the natural world and our understanding of it.
valerie taylor

Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception - 0 views

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    "The Exploratorium isn't just a museum, it's an ongoing exploration of science, art, and human perception-a vast collection of online interactives, web features, activities, programs and events that feed your curiosity."
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MARS Greeley Haven 360 Panorama - Round the world travel from panoramas.dk - 0 views

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    This is absolutely mind-boggling! Full 360 degree panoramic interactive moving view of Mars as you've never experienced before. Taken by Opportunity Rover and converted into an interactive panorama
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