Build a Simple Robot

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Build a Simple Robot
The TeRK Web site provides “recipes,” or instructions, for some simple robots that can be built with off-the-shelf parts. TeRK, which stands for Telepresence Robot Kit, is a project of the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) Lab at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. The aim of TeRK is to make educational robotics fun, affordable and accessible to a diverse community of college students, pre-college students and others interested in robotics. Once students choose and build a “recipe,” they can turn the robot on, and it will automatically search for a wireless network and connect to the Internet. They can then drive the robot around from any computer with a Web browser and Internet connection. The TeRK Web site provides free software for use with the TeRK robots, and all of the software is open source, so students can modify it or write their own programs to control their robot.
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Integrate Creativity with Historical Adventure

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Integrate Creativity with Historical Adventure
SecretBuilders, a Silicon Valley startup, has launched a virtual world with an emphasis on creativity and historical adventure for children aged 6–14. On SecretBuilders.com, children are exposed to stories and concepts from the arts and humanities as they interact and play among fictional and historical characters, including Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Galileo and Socrates. The site also provides creative contests with real-world impact. The latest contest invites children to come up with new toy concepts. The winning entry will become a virtual toy available for sale within the site’s virtual economy, and the inventor will win a cash prize. In addition, children enjoy quests that expose them to classic books, such as Treasure Island and Alice in Wonderland. Other favorite activities include getting published and commenting on other players’ submissions in The Crooked Pencil online magazine, hovering around famous artwork in Frank ‘n’ Stein’s Gallery, ordering slimy treats at the Weird Brew Café (run by the Weird Sisters characters from Macbeth), chatting with Sherlock Holmes and visiting Copernicus’ home to take a challenge quiz. SecretBuilders’ partners—including Art in Action, The Monterey Bay Aquarium, Wild Planet Entertainment and Stone Soup magazine—host features, contests and activities within the SecretBuilders site. Children also get involved in charity drives. A One-for-All section allows players to raise money for their schools by answering math, English and general knowledge questions.
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Celebrate Architecture

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Celebrate Architecture
Created by an act of Congress in 1980, the National Building Museum is America’s premier cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design, engineering, construction and urban planning. Experience one of the museum’s most popular programs, Bridge Basics, now presented in a classroom-friendly Program Kit. Students learn about the fundamental engineering concepts behind bridge building. Then they work in groups to design and build their own bridge and develop problem solving and collaborative work skills.
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Plus: Find other selected resource packets: Patterns Here, There, and Everywhere; City by Design; Fuller’s Fantastic Geodesic Dome; Green by Design.
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Get the Spin on Spans
Building Big Labs helps students think about structures they see every day and the impact of technology on society. Online laboratories invite students to test forces, materials, loads and shapes.
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Scratch…Make Your Own Games and Animations

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Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Scratch is available free of charge: go to Download.
Currently available for Mac OSX and Windows (see system requirements)

To find more about the ideas underlying Scratch, visit our page for Educators.

To learn how to use Scratch, go to Support.

To read research papers on Scratch, see Research.

To find out who is working on Scratch, see the Credits.

To read what people are saying about Scratch, see Quotes.

To hear the latest Scratch news stories, visit News.

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Model the Scientific Process

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Model the Scientific Process
Created by the National Academy of Sciences, the iWASwondering Web site encourages young people, especially girls, to pursue an interest in science. Lia, the teenage cartoon character who hosts the site, guides visitors through interactive resources and activities developed for middle school students. The site includes science labs, games, interactive comic strips and a teacher guide, as well as ASK IT!, a moderated forum and free online resource designed to model the scientific process. Students are invited to identify and formulate a scientific question, expand on an existing question and pose possible answers to other users’ questions. They can also vote for the questions they’d like to see answered by a scientist. The activity creates an online community that encourages logical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and inquiry-based learning.
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Facilitate Project Learning in Science and Math

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Facilitate Project Learning in Science and Math
The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) offers a wide variety of inquiry-based science curricula that use real-time data; engage students in projects using pooled data from shared, Web-based sources; involve student publishing on the Web; and provide access to unique and primary source information. The curriculum Web site features links to projects arranged by type: collaborative projects, real-time data projects, projects using primary sources & archived collections and others. Each curriculum includes an overview of the topic, student activities and a teacher guide, data and references, a link for students or classes to submit their work and an ask-an-expert feature.
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Students Study the Night Sky

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Study the Night Sky
Astronomers hope students from across the world will participate in an international star-hunting project to track light pollution and report their findings, via the Web, during a two-week period. This year the annual event will take place March 16–28, the 13 days when the Orion constellation will be visible to naked eyes from almost any location on Earth. The project, known as GLOBE at Night, is run by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona, and Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), an interactive science-based education program with members in 110 countries. On clear nights during the specified two-week period, students go outside an hour after sunset and find the constellation of Orion, including the three distinctive stars that make up Orion’s Belt. They then compare what they see to eight GLOBE images, which teachers may download freely from the GLOBE site. Back at school, students log on to the GLOBE Web site, identify their latitude and longitude and report their observations. GLOBE compiles the information and produces maps for teachers to use in lessons about population density, light pollution, geography and related topics.
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Blooms Revised Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives

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Think Low, Think High—Think Digitally
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy of cognitive objectives is one of the best ways to differentiate the curriculum to meet the needs of your students. Because of its six levels of thinking—Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating and Creating—Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy can provide a framework for planning units that incorporate low- to high-level thinking activities. An introduction to Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy includes a thorough breakdown of each of the six levels of the revised taxonomy as well as a list of useful print and Internet resources. A free, downloadable set of colorful posters explains each of the six levels of the taxonomy: each poster presents a brief definition of the term as well as sample thinking skills (verbs) that relate to that particular level of the taxonomy.
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Plus: Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy blooms digitally on this site.
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YOU SANK MY BATTLESHIP!

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Want to improve you math skills? Try this interactive battleship game, you have to answer the math question correctly to score a hit.

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Test Prep Site for Multiple Subjects

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http://regentsprep.org/regents.cfm

This site has lots of test prep. While it’s based for NY Regents Exams – there are lots of Lessons, Resources, and Practice activities for teachers to use! Lots of GREAT resources.

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