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Learn How to Solder Tonight at 9

Nifty! Make: Live Tonight at 9pm I’ll be watching.

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February 9, 2011
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Vernier’s Physics App is Incredible

Vernier Video Physics for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store: “Vernier Video Physics for iOS brings physics video analysis to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Take a video of an object in motion, mark its position frame by frame, and set up the scale using a known distance. Video Physics then [...]

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February 6, 2011
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Balloon Racers!

Balloon racers rely on Newton’s Third Law of Motion. As the air rushes backward out of the balloon it pushes the car forward in the opposite direction with an equal force. Your job is to make the most of this force! The rules to this activity are simple: * The car must be powered by [...]

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January 14, 2011
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Google Science Fair 2011

Thinking about using this for our capstone project this Spring. If you have a second, go ahead and sign up if you’d be interested in participating… Google Global Science Fair 2011 We’ll chat more about what I have in mind when we finally have “school” again. I love the Lego and CERN partnerships, btw!

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January 11, 2011
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Google Science Fair Tomorrow Morning

Well, if we are snowed-in again tomorrow and there’s no school, how about we all watch this tomorrow morning at 9 AM? It will be streaming live… YouTube – GoogleScienceFair’s Channel Looks pretty cool (if I am allowed to say such things even though I’m old). Maybe a Skype or Facebook group chat to discuss [...]

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January 10, 2011
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Steel Wool on Fire

Monday will be fun as we revisit this experiment (in a controlled lab environment)…

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November 27, 2010
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October 20, 2010
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Breaking Down Sugar Bonds Lab

Breaking down sugar bonds with various substances…

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September 30, 2010
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Wed Sept 29: Lab 2 (Breaking Down Sugar)

From Maybry and Ashley’s lab… Maybry: Breaking Down Sugar If you didn’t finish Lab 2 today, brainstorm on what you may need to do/bring for tomorrow! Let’s try to have these labs (with finished lab reports) finished up by Friday. Enjoy!

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September 29, 2010
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Breaking Down Sugar Lab Pointers

Made a quick video with pointers for our lab this week (my puppy Macy makes an appearance)…

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September 25, 2010