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Asteroid Landers Students will be part of Girlstart's 1st ALL-GIRL Mission to create a vehicle to land and collect minerals on an asteroid. Girlstart and NASA need help coming up with an asteroid lander design. Download the Asteroid Lander Mission here. Circuits Students create circuits that use buzzers to transfer electrical energy into sound energy. Download the Matter and Energy Circuit Messages Module here. Go Green Helping students understand their environmental impact by learning about different physical properties of plastics. Download the Plastic Pollution in the Ocean Activity here. Download the Plastic Rescue Mission handout here. Miner Rescue Prototype Students learn about the Chilean miner incident and design a prototype for a piece of equipment that is sturdy and safe to allow for the most efficient rescue. Download the Miner Rescue Prototype Activity here. Prosthetic Prototype Students will act as a biomedical engineer to help design a prosthetic prototype. Wind Energy Board Games
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Properties Everywhere Pre-K-2 This lesson captures students’ interest, provides a review of the primary unit objectives, and assesses students’ prior knowledge. Button Trains In this lesson, students describe order by using vocabulary such as before, after, and between. How Many Buttons? In this lesson, students review classification, make sets of a given number, explore relationships between numbers, and find numbers that are one more and one less than a given number. More and More Buttons Students use buttons to create, model, and record addition sentences. Numbers Many Ways Students work with subtraction at the intuitive level as they explore number families and ways to decompose numbers to 10. Lost Buttons In this lesson and the following one, students investigate subtraction more directly, beginning with the easier “take away” mode. Shirts Full of Buttons Students explore subtraction in the comparative mode by answering questions of “How many more?” Looking Back and Moving Forward
For $10, Convert Your Smartphone into a Microscope with Photo and Video Capabilities
[Update - 10:43AM 10/29/13] We actually built one of these $10 microscope stands. Take a look at the photos we took using it to see how well it works. Now you can do science at home with a $10 DIY smartphone microscope stand. If you’ve got the required tools handy, it should only take about 20 minutes to build the microscope stand. Also, if you’re into home science projects enough to want your own microscope, building the stand yourself is probably just an added bonus. (via BoingBoing, image via kmyoshino) Meanwhile in related links
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Simple Lift by Kiwi Crate | Get STEAM & STEM Projects
With a little imagination and creativity, there are many things that you can create by learning how to make a simple lift! A parking garage, a dollhouse, a make-believe tree house, and an elevator are just a few ideas. If you have some extra crates or boxes to repurpose this Earth Day, give this DIY a try! How We Did It Cut the lid off your crate. Cut a strip of cardboard from the lid, making it slightly narrower than the interior depth of the crate. Next, place the cardboard strip next to the box. Next cut a thin strip from the remaining cardboard lid, about 1 or 2 inches. On the thin strip of cardboard, measure roughly a half inch from each side and punch a hole. Place the wider strip of cardboard on a flat surface with its tabs folded upward. Measure out and cut a length of string that is about twice the height of your crate when it's standing upright. Now that all of your pieces are made, It's time to decorate! Insert your dowel into the two holes. You now have a working lift!
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Office of the Pima County School Superintendent - iSTEM 4 ECE
DaNel Hogan at danel.hogan@schools.pima.gov or 520-724-8395 Jaymie Jacobs at Jaymie.Jacobs@schools.pima.gov or 520-724-8213 Do you have access to fantastic STEM resources for birth to third-grade children? Sign up for the iSTEM 4 ECE Newsletter to receive teacher-to-teacher recommended resources straight from one early childhood educator's classroom to yours! iSTEM 4 ECE Conference Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 Registration OPEN! Past Workshop Resources iSTEM 4 ECE Pedagogy and Presentation Workshop Saturday, January 24th, 2015
How to manage/remove startup Programs in Windows 7
Here's my two-cents worth: I know this is not a comprehensive list, but I've been Googling and experimenting for quite a while and here's some of the results: I won't even give all the usual cautions about goofing around in the Registry because if you're here trying to stop excess processes (which the average user doesn't even know or care about), you should know what the ill-advised Registry change can do. Can be auto-starting IF: 1) The program has a visible window. 2) Program is loaded during the Windows boot process: Registry keys: 3) User's Startup folder: Start (Orb) > All Programs > Startup 4) msconfig Startup tab 5) Use CCleaner (or similar program that offers such a feature): Run CCleaner > Tools button > Startup button. 5) In Services: Start (Orb) > type services.msc > hit Enter > scroll down (and carefully) change Automatic services to Manual or Disabled > reboot 6) Use program's menu selection to start/not start automatically
