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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:30:00 +0000

Just uploaded a new "Talking With Scientist" video: astrophysicist talks about working with the Mars Lander http://tinyurl.com/ylbu3o9 #
Urquhart is a professor at UT Dallas studying prof dev on reducing student misconceptions in science http://tinyurl.com/ygcc7ro #
Uploading the Talking With Scientists video series to our YouTube site http://www.youtube.com/stemeducation #

Talking With Scientists: Mary Urquhart Talks About Her Work

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:10:27 +0000

Astrophysicist and Science Educator Mary Urquhart talks about her work with the Mars Lander.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:30:00 +0000

From @engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/lego-arm-moves-slowly-rocks-mightily-video/ #
RT @boingboing Mr. Wizard premiered 49 years ago, today – Boing Boing http://is.gd/9BSDM He was the original STEM educator! #
Reading about STEM initiatives at MIT http://tinyurl.com/yaolgqy #
Lemelson-MIT focuses on innovation and inventors http://mit.edu/invent/ #
Check out Brain Drain game to learn about inventors and inventions http://tinyurl.com/ylbco2s #
Did you know skateboards were invented as a way to surf on land? #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:30:00 +0000

Stanford prof suggests simulation is the key to math education http://tinyurl.com/yazod4f #
Acc to Devlin, the textbook is perhaps the worst medium for teaching math. Here's Devlin's homepage http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/ #
Devlin has collaborated with artists to present his fav equations thru prose and songs http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/HE.html #
Browsing the resources available from Tennessee http://www.stemresources.com/ #
The Teacher Work Samples include extensive examples of lessons and assessments for STEM instruction http://tinyurl.com/yf7f2y4 #
Just posted a new Talking With Scientists Video: Pardis Sabeti compares science to a video game http://tinyurl.com/yfzxx29 #
Sabeti does genome research at Harvard http://sysbio.harvard.edu/csb/research/sabeti.html #
Pardis Sabeti also plays in a band named Thousand Days http://thousanddays.com/ #
You can hear her singing a song in her office at Harvard http://tinyurl.com/yhbg4ry #
You can learn more about the human genome at National Human Genome Research Institute http://www.genome.gov/ #

Talking With Scientists: Pardis Sabeti & Video Games

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:18:21 +0000

Research Biologist Pardis Sabeti describes how science is like a video game.

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Crisis at a Coral Reef Curriculum

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:00:41 +0000

Teachers can access the curriculum guide for the project-based learning unit called Crisis at a Coral Reef. These problem-based lesson sets use robotics and are designed for Life Science classes.

Crisis At a Coral Reef (pdf)