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This
astronomy
program
is
designed
for
middle
school
children
in
out-of-school-time
settings.
The
program
explores
basic
astronomy
concepts
(like
invisible
light,
telescopes)
and
focuses
on
the
universe
outside
the
solar
system
(stars,
galaxies,
black
holes).
By
offering
programming
on
these
topics
outside
of
the
classroom,
where
schedules
are
less
constrained,
Afterschool
Universe
engages
students
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This
tutorial
provides
detailed
information
about
how
clouds
receive
their
names
and
the
importance
of
root
words.
It
was
designed
to
help
students
make
accurate
observations
for
the
Students'
Cloud
Observations
On-Line
(S'COOL)
project.
Students
will
also
learn
to
associate
different
clouds
into
height
groupings.
Information
is
provided
about
the
cloud
types
and
on
how
to
distinguish
similar
clouds
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This
website,
developed
to
support
the
GLOBE
Contrail
Protocol,
contains
the
latest
information
pertaining
to
contrails,
including
the
history
and
science
of
contrails,
and
their
importance
to
society.
It
also
contains
examples
of
imagery
available
from
satellites
in
a
contrail
gallery.
It
provides
learning
resources
for
teachers
like
the
crossword
puzzle,
word
search
and
contrail
ID
chart.
Lastly
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This
flyer
is
a
two-page
overview
of
the
Student
Cloud
Observations
On-Line
(S'COOL)
education
project.
It
covers
the
project's
educational
contributions,
societal
benefits,
educational
outgrowths,
and
scientific
findings.
The
flyer
shows
the
numbers
and
locations
of
S'COOL
participation
and
regional
observation
coverage.
It
also
contains
URLs
for
online
resources
(e.g.,
GLOBE
contrail
education
and
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This
is
an
abstract
for
a
paper
that
reports
on
a
general
strategy
for
making
the
learning
environment
in
large
(and
small)
lectures
more
effective
by
increasing
student
involvement.
Researchers
have
used
and
evaluated
the
effectiveness
of
Microcomputer-Based
Interactive
Lecture
Demonstrations
(ILDs)
in
introductory
physics
lectures
since
1989
and
have
found
them
to
be
very
successful
for
teaching
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This webpage, developed by William Beaty at the University of Washington, provides long list of common scientific misconceptions organized by topic. Topic include work and power, space, sound, measurement, properties of matter, magnets and magnetism, lithosphere, light, heat and temperature, forces, fluids, motion, energy, electricity, color and vision, biosphere, atmosphere and astronomy.
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This
website
provides
summary
and
contact
information
for
the
Urban
Wetlands
research
group
at
Oregon
State
University.
This
project
will
establish
partnerships
among
public
agencies,
educators,
and
interdisciplinary
teams
of
scientists
from
three
regions
of
the
US
to
summarize
the
state
of
our
knowledge
of
wetlands
in
the
urban
landscape,
and
propose
directions
for
future
research.
A
product
of
this
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This
site
provides
a
summary
of
an
on-going
ecological
biocomplexity
research
project
that
began
in
the
mid-1970's.
Coined
the
"Portal
Project,"
because
of
its
location
near
the
southeastern
Arizona
town
of
Portal,
research
has
been
conducted
on
24
plots
for
over
20
years.
This
research
primarily
focuses
on
the
interactions
of
ants,
rodents,
and
desert
plant
species.
The
summary
provided
on
this
website
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The
Center
for
the
Study
of
Institutions,
Population
and
Environmental
Change
(CIPEC)
is
involved
in
a
variety
of
demographic,
geographic,
and
land
use
research
efforts.
The
biocomplexity
project
concentrates
on
using
several
types
of
mathematical
modeling
to
inventory
and
predict
land
use
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This
website
is
an
adaptation
of
Bloom's
taxonomy
of
learning.
Benjamin
Bloom
created
this
taxonomy
in
1956
for
categorizing
the
levels
of
comprehension
that
commonly
occur
in
educational
settings.
This
website
features
a
table
which
clearly
presents
each
category
with
definitions
and
cues/
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