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Dalton’s Atoms

I’m testing out the “clipping/embedding” feature available in Google Books (since we’ll be using many primary sources this year). Here’s a clip from John Dalton’s famous work on atomic theory: Looks like it works!

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Minnesota Loot

I’ve been here in Duluth, Minnesota for the week for a teacher training conference. I’ve met some really wonderful teachers including an Earth Science teacher named Mr. Paul Davis who teaches here in Duluth. He gave me a collection of Minnesota agates to bring home for our own SDS rock collection! While we don’t do [...]

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Google Squared and Physical Science

Google Squared is a new search engine that Google is developing in order to better organize different types of information. Doesn’t the main Google site already do that? Well, yes…but Google Squared literally organizes the information into a chart format that will be incredibly handy for us this year when we study topics such as [...]

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SDS Sports Year in Review

GoUpstate.com has a great wrap-up of sports achievements by Griffins during the ’08-09 school year. Congrats to the tennis, basketball and golf teams on the mentions!

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