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Egg in Bottle Experiment – Air Pressure experiment

January 30th, 2009

Egg-citing egg-speriment starring Pete and Navierto. This video sponsored by Rockin the Standards, the only standards-based rock band on the planet!

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Egg in Bottle – Air Pressure Funny Video

Domestic Fuel » Archives » Teaching… Using Biodiesel Buses

January 29th, 2009

Benish even created an alternative fuels “teacher” packet to assist the elementary school science teachers in incorporating the information into their science curriculum. Benish has plans to create another Clean Air Club …

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Air Pressure Demonstration Video

January 28th, 2009

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Air Pressure

What are the challenges of teaching elementary school science?

January 27th, 2009

I am finishing up my education and will be teaching next fall. I am wondering what challenges there are to teaching science in elementary school. This subject scares me more than any other. Please help! …

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Circular Motion and Lift of a Helicopter

January 27th, 2009

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Teaching the Weather – Hurricane Simulating

January 26th, 2009

Dr. Richard Byles, director of education at the Virginia Air and Space Museum in Hampton, VA, demonstrates how to simulate the force that a hurricane or tornado may…

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Magnetism

January 24th, 2009

Magnetism

Magnets have fascinated humans since their discovery thousands of years ago, well before 600 BC. A unit on magnetism would be appropriate for students of any grade in elementary school. Teaching and learning about magnetism should be based on discovery and involve the use of hands-on activities. Also beneficial to teaching magnetism would be to show a video in which very powerful electromagnets, such the ones that lift up automobiles, are used.

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Teaching Space and the Solar System

January 22nd, 2009

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What are some fun, exciting ways to teach space to first graders?

make them all create the solar system, for instance. one kid´s the sun, and give everyone a role, using all the elements in the system, and tell them what they are made of and their characteristics… and maybe then you can make them turn in a paper on their

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The Ideas in Teaching Solar System

January 21st, 2009

New post at The Ideas in Teaching Solar System.

Solar system may be interesting for some students but it can also be a boring subject for the others. It is the problems of every teacher who wants to teach solar system. To make the students get the enthusiasm in the space and solar

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Does anyone believe Schools will start teaching the solar system to have only 8 planets rather than 9 or not?

I will be doing that with my classes starting this semester. Pluto is a very small and distant body about which we know very little any way. It is the only “planet” that has not yet been visited by a probe. (There is one on its way out

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