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Voyager 1 has traveled a very long distance since then. Find out what it's doing and learning now.

Be creative, help people and make dreams come true with engineering. Play games, watch full episodes and video clips, design new inventions and share them in this social community. Try engineering and science activities or compete in contests on DESIGN SQUAD NATION's educational website for kids. Read a blog from real engineers.

Entertaining Pre-Algebra videos

Entertaining Pre-Algebra videos

Be creative, help people and make dreams come true with engineering. Play games, watch full episodes and video clips, design new inventions and share them in this social community. Try engineering and science activities or compete in contests on DESIGN SQUAD NATION's educational website for kids. Read a blog from real engineers.

Be creative, help people and make dreams come true with engineering. Play games, watch full episodes and video clips, design new inventions and share them in this social community. Try engineering and science activities or compete in contests on DESIGN SQUAD NATION's educational website for kids. Read a blog from real engineers.

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Guitar masters like Jimi Hendrix are capable of bending the physics of waves to their wills, plucking melody from inspiration and vibration. But how do wood, metal, and plastic translate into rhyth...

Guitar masters like Jimi Hendrix are capable of bending the physics of waves to their wills, plucking melody from inspiration and vibration. But how do wood, metal, and plastic translate into rhyth...

Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." As difficult as ...

This goes right along with our course. I loved that they included Gamification and the 3-D Printing. #eme5050  . 

Since I am a "new" teacher to the whole iPad classroom, I found this site useful and the Pedagogy Wheel has many apps that as useful.

This link is a resource for current and prospective Florida teachers and is extremely valuable in keeping up with the latest additions and changes to the necessary teaching certificates required to become an instructor.

This link provides parents with students enrolled in Manatee County schools with numerous resources including school choice forms, information about before and after school care, volunteering information, and information on SAC and SIP.

Found through twitter, this tweet shared by twitter-user "Nimfetta" links to an article on busyteacher.org regarding some amazing tips on writing successful lesson plans. How to Write a Lesson Plan: 5 Secrets of Writing Great Lesson Plans http://busyteacher.org/3753-how-to-write-a-lesson-plan-5-secrets.html ... via @busyteacher_org

This article was written by UCF professors Dr. Tony Grajeda and Jay Beck discussing the importance of "sound studies" on the discipline of humanity, specifically, but also across academic disciplines.

Parent Benefits Positive parent-school communications benefit parents. The manner in which schools communicate and interact with parents affects the extent and quality of parents' home involvement with their children's learning. For example, schools that communicate bad news about student performance more often than recognizing students' excellence will discourage parent involvement by making parents feel they cannot effectively help their children.

May , 2014 One of the wonderful video resources I have been recommending for teachers and students is TED Ed video library on YouTube. This library features a wide variety of educational videos curated specifically for education community. These TED Ed videos are explanatory tutorials and animations that cover a given topic .

This article explores and discusses research in faculty's literacy of technology and their aptness to incorporate technology in their curriculum - Very relevant to this week's WAR2 assignment on technology and pedagogy!

Great article on customizing distance learning and online education in post-secondary (colleges/universities)... I also specifically like this article because it gives some depth to my argument on legitimizing degrees earned through online programs at reputable schools.

Smart, Take-it or Leave-It, or I Don't Care" - blog entry about VARK learning styles and how technology can be used in all areas.

This article offers a list of app for the children to use in the classroom or at home. What I liked most about the list was there were several apps for special needs children and apps that could be customized by parents/teachers for individual learning.