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Amazing Alex: Physics App from the Creators of Angry Birds 09/20/2012 by SAM in EDUCATIONAL APPS with 0 COMMENTS If you've been using Angry Birds to teach physics and carefully showing kids how important the trajectory launch path is, then this educational app is for you! Rovio Entertainment have released a new Physics app 'Amazing Alex ', to get you more addicted than ever. The educational app is a new physics-based puzzle game. The game centers around whiz kid Alex and his incredible creations, inviting fans to step into Alex's world of creative chain reactions: solving puzzles, designing their own levels, and sharing their creativity with the world.

Everyone likes instructions, right? Just think up a city name and declare yourself Mayor. Check out what other great leaders have built and rate them. If you're a school teacher, you can to register so your students' cities can be registered to and searched for by your school name. What is ElectroCity? ElectroCity is an online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It's great fun to play and also teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand. NB: New Zealand is nuclear-free, so nuclear power plants cannot be built in our country. However, this game is intended to provide players with a base knowledge of energy generation, so nuclear power is included. Find out more.

Free Trial NBC News Archives on Demand (K-12) is a collection of NBC News videos, primary source documents, images, and resources specifically designed for use in the K-12 classroom. * Thousands of searchable and downloadable resources (1600s to Today) * Video content aligned to State Standards * Current Events updated regularly * Sciences, Social Studies, Language Arts, Health and Business * Personalized playlists for teachers and students * Revolutionary flippable media player"

Five Cool Things You Can Do With WeatherSpark 1. Get three local forecasts presented in graphs. Two when outside of the US. 2. Compare the weather in San Francisco vs New York. 3. View the global climate trends. And read the details. 4. Check out the monsoon in Mumbai, India. The rain is so dominant that it cools down the air for three months, creating a yearly temperature curve that actually dips in the summer. 5. See an average late July in Houston. The thunderstorms typically roll in around 4pm. ... or tweet your own suggestion! WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context"

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"The BBC World Service's weekly look at new developments in science from around the world."

Virtual field trips challenge and expose students to new types of technology. It is a great way to spark their interest and motivate their learning in a specific content area. Virtual field trips can offer students more opportunities because you can take them to places they wouldn't normally be able to go to otherwise - like inside a volcano or ocean floor! In addition, virtual field trips may even boost students' reading comprehension skills and will expose them to different cultures and environments. While virtual field trips offer a great learning opportunity, they can be hard to organize and time consuming. Take advantage of our free virtual field trips and engage your students even more!

" Previous Video 88% Next Video Views: 309,288 Tags: Slow Motion, Water Short URL: 4576Share More Videos "Wellll OBVIOUSLY we have a rapist!" The Tortoise Dance Genius Goal Quick Change Artists Boyz II Men performs Goo Goo Doll's 'Iris' Guy recaps 35 years of his life Massive building demolition Baby Preacher DISQUS... Like Dislike * 4 people liked this. Community Disqus * Login * About Disqus Glad you liked it. Would you like to share? Facebook Twitter * Share * No thanks Sharing this page … Thanks! Close Showing 11 comments Sort by Subscribe by email Subscribe by RSS * 3ji4gneirg [Moderator] 6 months ago too bad this show fucking sucked. these god damn retards running around doing shit with a high speed camera.. it's written as if the audience is a group of 4th graders. make a high speed video of you trying to fit a whole live grenade in your mouths.. then maybe i'll watch. Flag 18 people liked this. Like Reply Reply * TitsOrGTFO [Moderator] 6 months ago You can see this happen if you piss in the shower, little water balls will roll across the top of the water, and they'll be piss colored! Flag Jon Davis and 12 more liked this Like Reply Reply * Joe The Videographer [Moderator] 4 months ago A shame that some dimwitted and rather vulgar children seem compelled to comment on every post. Personally, I enjoy this show. Specialized film cameras could do this for years, but they were very expensive to own and operate. Technology now makes it much easier. The pioneer of the high speed film cameras was Harold Edgerton. Well worth a look if you have the time. Flag Jon Davis and 2 more liked this Like Reply Reply * Baldev Barha [Moderator] 6 months ago Looks amazing at 2000 FPS. Try it with hot water drops dropping into cold water. You will actually see the spherical water drops floa

Across North America ladybug species distribution is changing. Over the past twenty years several native ladybugs that were once very common have become extremely rare. During this same time ladybugs from other places have greatly increased both their numbers and range. Some ladybugs are simply found in new places. This is happening very quickly and we don't know how, or why, or what impact it will have on ladybug diversity or the role that ladybugs play in keeping plant-feeding insect populations low. We're asking you to join us in finding out where all the ladybugs have gone so we can try to prevent more native species from becoming so rare."

The theme, which will last three years, is intended to serve as a focus for the IB and IB World Schools. They aim to capture the excellent initiatives that are already underway in many schools and encourage and inspire new activities, in and out of the classroom, around the following topics: Global poverty Education for all Peace and conflict Global infectious diseases Digital divide: uneven access to information and communication technologies Disasters and emergencies

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" Our Choice will change the way we read books. And quite possibly change the world. In this interactive app, Al Gore surveys the causes of global warming and presents groundbreaking insights and solutions already under study and underway that can help stop the unfolding disaster of global warming. Our Choice melds the vice president's narrative with photography, interactive graphics, animations, and more than an hour of engrossing documentary footage. A new, groundbreaking multi-touch interface allows you to experience that content seamlessly. Pick up and explore anything you see in the book; zoom out to the visual table of contents and quickly browse though the chapters; reach in and explore data-rich interactive graphics. "

Dow Chemical contacted Professional Learning Board asking what we thought of their new science videos for education. We think they're worth sharing with teachers!

"A website for IB chemistry good for revision notes but beware it hasn't been fully updated for the new syllabus. It has lots of useful websites though with with simulations to help with understanding"

"This has lots of interactive resources on lots of different topics"

"Check out these new features available in Google Earth 5.0: * Tours of lunar landing sites, narrated by Apollo astronauts * 3D models of rovers and landers * 360-degree photo panoramas * Rare TV footage of the Apollo missions"

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