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Screen shot 2012-09-30 at 8.13.17 PM, a photo by jim forde on Flickr.

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Screen shot 2012-09-30 at 8.33.46 PM, a photo by jim forde on Flickr.

Mr. Edelson's Rocketry and Math lesson

Here is an example of an original rocket (in progress)
and a packet which helped to guide the students.

      It was a pleasure to day to visit Mr. Edelson's 8th grade math class at TOR today!  The students were highly engaged in a lesson about designing rockets.  You may ask, "Why are they designing rockets in math class?"  Well, they were using measurement, fractions and were ultimately collecting original data from the designs in order to create a scatter plot. As I understand it, they will be plotting the length of the rocket body tubes vs. the diameter of the fins!  Dave was pretty tricky in sneaking all of that math into such a fun lesson!  :-)  I hope I'll be invited back to see the launches, which I am told require a whole new set of math skills to be utilized!   Keep up the great work !

Here are a couple of more images of the kids at work!

 

Here is an encouraging sign (one of many located all over TOR) that was outside of Dave's classroom.

 

 

 

The Stamford Times covers our NASA trip!

Click here to read a Stamford Times article about the Stamford teachers and administrators who attended the STEM integration workshop at NASA!

Science and the Summer Olympics

Click the following words to learn more about Science and the Summer Olympics!

Mars Curiosity Rover!

Isn't this exciting!

Go here for Curiosity central!


NASA lands a car sized rover on Mars!
Click Here to learn more from NASA JPL

Jim

PolarTREC anyone?

Thanks to Louise McMinn for sending out the info on this great opportunity!

Jim
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Now Accepting Applications

PolarTREC Teachers 2013-2014

PolarTREC: Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.

Application Deadline: Monday, 3 September 2012, 5 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time

For further information, please contact PolarTREC at:

Email: info@polartrec.com

Phone: 907-474-1600

PolarTREC (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating) is currently accepting applications from teachers for the seventh year of teacher research experiences. Teachers are invited to submit an application to participate in field research learning experiences during the 2013 (usually Arctic) or 2013-2014 (usually Antarctic) field seasons.

More information and application forms are available at: http://www.polartrec.com/teachers/application/2013