Archive for October, 2009

Another feed to consider

Posted in October 27th, 2009

I came across this today.
My 8th grade students started a blogging project last Saturday on the International Day of Climate Change at http://ccassinelli.edublogs.org/. We were inspired by the 40-day challenge from Tread Lightly (http://treadlightly.me/challenge.html). The 40-Day Challenge focuses on environmental stewardship by challenging readers to adopt or be inspired by our green commitments.
Our blog will [...]

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When a Science Fair Project Hits on the Real Thing

Posted in October 25th, 2009

by admin in Uncategorized

Can a students science fair project be relevant to real science? You bet. Last year two students conducted a science fair project that investigated the effect of different smells on whether or not people would agree or disagree with certian questions. I came across this article of the Effect of Odors on Moral Behavior in [...]

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Science Feeds for Your Reader

Posted in October 5th, 2009

by admin in Science Feeds

Please add the following feeds to your Google Reader.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/blog/index.php?/feeds/index.rss2
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/rss/SNK.asp

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Week of October 5, 2009

Posted in October 5th, 2009

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Greetings and welcome to this week in science!
This week we will be study the changes that happen to matter as it changes from one state to the next. We will use Molecular Workbench, a software project that allows us to model the motion of molecules. The end of the week will wrap up [...]

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