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" Desmos Calculator! Use this calculator for graphing, for calculating, for sharing, for creating. Look on the right for help or inspiration. "

"aimed at kids between 5 and 12 years old, but grown ups can have just as much fun testing their brains with one of these innovative games. "

" Over 1,000 students have used dictionarysquared to improve their vocabulary because it's: Fun and Interactive: The program incorporates words in video clips and photographs and students compete for points to earn a spot on the Top 10 list."

"For each grade and science content area, there are both detailed lists and summary lists. For example, in the kindergarten science section, motion is one of the key areas. For kindergarten science, there are 85 motion vocabulary words organized in 9 lists."

"A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas"

"Educators sharing bookmarks and best practice. We have a set of standard tags to help us share things that you may use in addition to your tags. (You may subscribe to these tags via RSS feed by subject area, which makes it very useful.)"

limited content, same idea as Kahn Academy

Pilots find that the iPad is a great tool for aviation - light weight, easy to use, easy to bring computing device. apps into categories - pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight. Within each category, we defined the capabilities that an app in that category might have.

S.T.E.M. Education Through Aviation Students of all ages learn science, technology, engineering and math (S.T.E.M) through designing, building, and flying their own virtual airplanes. The software, including curricula and training,

Physical processes - Electricity, types of energy forces, space, sound and light

Materials - Learn about the experiments that make the properties of solids, liquids and gases change

Interdependence and adaptation Micro organisms Reversible and irreversible changes Forces in action How we see things Changing circuits

Life cycles Keeping healthy Gases around us Changing state Changing sounds Earth, Sun and Moon

4th & 5th Grade Science Mountain View Elementary School

Earth, our Sun and solar system, and the universe out to its farthest reaches and back to its earliest moments of existence. NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the nation's science community use space observatories to conduct scientific studies of the Earth from space to visit and return samples from other bodies in the solar system, and to peer out into our Galaxy and beyond. NASA's science program seeks answers to profound questions that touch us all

"X-Class: A Guide to Solar Flares Solar flares are classified according to their strength. The smallest ones are B-class, followed by C, M and X, the largest. A powerful X-class flare can create long lasting radiation storms, which can harm satellites, communications systems, and even ground-based technologies and power grids."

"Burt Rutan took the lid off his latest project, the BiPod, at a homebuilders chat this morning, and it looks different than images released last week by Scaled Composites, Burt's former company that owns the design. The first images of the BiPod included CAD drawings with four propellers-one on each wing and two on the horizontal stabilizer between the tails of the twin-fuselage, hybrid-electric roadable aircraft."

open access journals on a broad range of sciences from the nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource

"EXPLORE! Visit our international network of museums for the best inquiry resources on the web."

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