"Students can learn some science concepts just as well from computers simulations as they do from direct observation, new research suggests.
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A study found that people who used computer simulations to learn about moon phases understood the concepts just as well -- and in some cases better -- than did those who learned from collecting data from viewing the moon."
"The OSP Collection provides curriculum resources that engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling. Computational physics and computer modeling provide students with new ways to understand, describe, explain, and predict physical phenomena."
"The use of computers and computer languages in education has been impressive in the last couple of years. More and more school going kids use computers in the heart of all academic and personal development than ever. Such use has been phenomenal in helping improve classroom interactive learning, bettering student grades and improving competitiveness in a modern education setting, among others."
"gain more 21st century skills, our free computer tutorials can help. From computer Basics to Microsoft Office to Apple, we have a wide range of free technology tutorials to choose from. "
"computerbasedmath.org is a project to build a completely new math curriculum with computer-based computation at its heart-alongside a campaign to refocus math education away from historical hand-calculating techniques and toward relevant and conceptually interesting topics."
NASA Explorer Schools Live Video Chat: Computer Graphics and Animations
NASA Explorer Schools invites students in grades 6-9 from across the U.S. and Department of Defense schools to participate in a live video chat with Zareh Gorjian. Gorjian is currently the lead animator and software engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Join NES on June 2, 2011, at noon EDT for this very special video chat to ask questions about NASA's Computer-generated animations and graphics.
Go to the chat page on the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus website to participate in the webchat. You do not need to be a participant of the NASA Explorer Schools project to join the chat. To learn more about NES, please visit the explorerschools.nasa.gov website and click on the What Is NES? video or the About NES link.
"popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A computer and an Internet connection are all you need. View lecture videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes and tests, and communicate with other SEE students, all at your convenience.
SEE programming includes one of Stanford's most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford's undergraduates and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering."
"you need a portable arsenal of troubleshooting tools to solve common computer problems. You never know when your laptop, or a friend's computer, may start acting up. Load up these free tech support utilities onto a USB flash drive and they'll think you're a tech support superhero!"
home laboratories have tools like infrared thermometers
Many of these tools work closely with home computers and come with software that enhances their power. Others mix low-cost computers into the hardware to deliver more precise control.
Some people who set up home laboratories are serious hobbyists in search of better tools; others are home-schooling parents equipping their children; and others are just curious.
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"Visit Japan" to computer-design your own animé cartoon characters.
"Visit Egypt" to study the pyramids and how to "mummify"
apples. "Visit China" to explore the Great Wall and the
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LESSON PLANS - A library of fun science experiments to help students understand how the Wrights developed the first powered aircraft.
WIND TUNNEL TESTS In 1901, the Wright Brothers conducted wind tunnel tests that helped them learn about lift. With NASA's help, we'll recreate some of those tests. Follow along! COMPUTER SIMULATIONS We're using COMPUTERs to analyze the Wrights' early wing designs and the 1903 Wright Flyer. What will we learn?
Two computer instructors in the CalWomenTech Project used this information to develop a YouTube Video strategy to help their students improve their skills in binary numbers, a core concept in computer networking.The two videos combined had more than 53,000 views in the last year!
"Back in the 1960's, a French mathematician named Benoit Mandelbrot started thinking about simple pretty simple: How long is the coast of Britain? Sure, it seems easy enough... But, think about how you'd really measure it... In 1975, he made up the word "fractal" because he thought these figures would look fractured or broken up. It wasn't until he had a computer that he could SEE a picture of what he'd been thinking about!"
"Digital sky surveys and real-time telescopic )observations are unleashing an unprecedented flood (of information. Astronomers have recently created new tools to sift through all that data, which could contain answers (to some of the greatest questions in cosmology."
"Citizen Science is an online flash-based computer adventure game in which the player is a young adult who becomes concerned about the health of a local lake threatened by eutrophication. Based at Lake Mendota in Madison, WI, the player�s goal is to restore the lake. By focusing on the ecological needs of Lake Mendota as well as the surrounding community, the game is able to bring together real-world issues and scientific practices. "
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