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Sylvia Todd, Science Star, Tinkers With the Idea of Growing Up - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    NYTimes story about Sylvia Todd, young maker with a following. "With her father, James Todd, filming her, Sylvia uses puppetry, theme music and her home as a laboratory to demonstrate how things work. She makes science fun, mostly by having fun herself."
Tanya Baker

Education Week: Common Science Standards Make Formal Debut - 0 views

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    ""Coupling practice with content gives the learning context, whereas practices alone are activities, and content alone is memorization," an executive summary of the standards says. "The integration of rigorous content and application reflects how science and engineering is practiced in the real world.""
Tanya Baker

Permission to Play: Let's Make Fixing Things Cool Again | Living on GOOD - 0 views

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    description of engineering and tinkering fair for kids run by ifixit
Tanya Baker

Physics teacher adopts Google Glass, gives students a glance at CERN (video) - 0 views

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    This physics teacher gives a lecture from inside CERN's Hadron Collider wearing Google Glass. How cool is that? What would his students write about?!?
Tanya Baker

http://dmp.nysci.org/system/files/filedepot/1/NYSCI_MAKER_BLUEPRINT.pdf - 0 views

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    A Blueprint: Maker Programs for Youth is just what it sounds like, directions for starting a maker program. It may have ideas that will be helpful to teams as they design their science-literacy projects.
Tanya Baker

Home | Explorology - 0 views

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    Oklahoma Science Adventure plus PD opportunity. Maybe possible project idea
Tanya Baker

Discourse Tools - 0 views

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    tools and resources to support ambitious science instruction
Tanya Baker

Listening to the River - A Program of Learning Focused on Watersheds - 0 views

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    Mark St. John shared this program as an example of a place-based program.
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    From Mark St. John-- this might be helpful to teams, especially MT and AZ in their place-based work. Enjoy!
Tanya Baker

The Educational Value of Field Trips : Education Next - 0 views

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    Just transferring this article about the value of fieldtrips to a place that I can find it.
Tanya Baker

The Mammoth Cometh - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    an article on de-extinction. what?!? its a brave (and exciting) new world
Tanya Baker

5 Online Games That Teach Kids the Art of Persuasion | MindShift - 0 views

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    wondering if anyone on this list has played Citizen Science
Tanya Baker

Why Nothing Is Truly Alive - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    What is life? This is a lovely piece from the NYT about the biological question "what is alive?"
Kim Douillard

Reactions: Everyday Science - 0 views

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    Some fun videos! Loved the caffeine one. :)
Tanya Baker

FW: Surprising design for a shark-deterrent wetsuit - tbaker@nwp.org - National Writing... - 0 views

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    Saving TED talk here as well. Discusses science/engineering as an act of translation, discusses making connections between biological record and human anecdote, and involves fashion, too.
Tanya Baker

Around the world without leaving school: virtual field trips take off - LancasterOnline... - 0 views

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    Perhaps of interest to people thinking differently about field trips... and perhaps not...
Tanya Baker

7 Science Communication Trends We Love - 0 views

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    cool ideas for thinking about how, where, for whom and why we write/communicate about science
Tanya Baker

The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress | WIRED - 1 views

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    Color, perception, fashion, science... what color is that dress? Thank you, Cindy O'Donnell-Allen for catching me up on this social media frenzy that I'd missed.
Tanya Baker

Spurious Correlations - 1 views

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    This website, which shows that correlation does NOT equal causation has shown up in my inbox twice this week! It seems it wants me to share it :-)
Tanya Baker

STEM and Writing: A Super Combination | Edutopia - 1 views

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    NWP teacher consultant on why writing and science go together.
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