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Possible Cancer Cure Discovered by High School Student
Have your students ever complained that learning science in school is irrelevant? Have they ever said something like this: “Everything has already been invented already, so what’s the point?” Well,...
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Pinterest for Education: Make Your Own Lava Lamp
Here’s a great idea for this week: Make your own lava lamp…brought to us via Kelly Whitehead’s School Idea board, and originally posted by S.L. Smith Photography. This is a great science experiment...
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Upcoming Coverage of the Higgs Boson Discovery
As you prepare for the new school year, keep an eye out for Pearson Science’s coverage of the recent Higgs boson discovery, which is poised to reshape our understanding of the universe. Check back...
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Curiosity Landed on Mars
Live Landing Spatial exploration fascinates a lot of people because it pushes the boundary of human knowledge. Space remains mostly unknown, and Mars is so far away and seems unreachable. Scientists...
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Hurricane Sandy, a.k.a. “Frankenstorm”
Frankenstorm Born in the tropical waters of the Caribbean Sea on October 22, tropical storm “Sandy” gave little early indication of the death and destruction it would cause just a week later. As the...
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Do the Math: Hurricane Energy & Other Classroom Activities
Activity One: Do the Math: Hurricane Energy Teachers: Use the following math activity to make the power of cyclones such as Hurricane Sandy more tangible. A hurricane gathers heat, or thermal energy,...
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Meteor Strike and Asteroid Fly-By
Fire Over Ice On February 15, 9:20 AM local time, a flash of light filled the sky over the Chelyabinsk region of western Siberia, Russia. People looked out their windows and saw a fiery yellow object...
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FAQs About Friday’s Fireball
On February 15, a meteor exploded over the sky of western Siberia the same day Asteroid DA14 whizzed past Earth, as described in this other post. Students will likely have tons of questions about this...
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Hands-On Activity: Will a Meteorite Land Near Me?
See other posts in this series: FAQs About Friday’s Fireball Meteor Strike and Asteroid Fly-By As you probably heard over the weekend, a large meteor entered the atmosphere and exploded over Russia...
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Do the Math: Making a Scale Model to Understand How Close Asteroid DA14 Came...
This is another activity to help your students relate to the meteor and asteroid events of last Friday. This activity is also a lesson on using scale and building a scale model of the Earth-Moon...
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