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FREE Download: 2012 AuthenticSTEM Guide | Educate to Innovate with STEM. Here it is! The 2012 AuthenticSTEM Guide to STEM Education Resource. This guide includes resources that support each of the 8 keys to Education Reform through STEM. Please note that the free guide is made available to you at no cost, and is mainly made up of affordable resources that can be utilized almost immediately. Please feel free to share with anyone you feel may benefit from the information. Who It’s For Teachers, administrators, parents and anyone otherwise interested in better preparing our children for college or a career involving STEM. Get started immediately with the resources included and see your STEM toolkit fill with creative and useful ideas to make a difference for your students. Is It Helpful? 1) Let me know. 2) Help spread the word. Thanks! Like this: Like Loading... Home - The Story Behind The Science. Dayton Regional Stem Center | Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

STEM Stories. Inquiry Cards | Smarter Science. Science Niblets. Teacher Resources. Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students. City Tour | City of Materials | ASM International. Educational Idea Sheets - Resource Area For Teaching. Idea Sheets are hands-on experience guides linked to core curriculum topics. Every Idea Sheet is cross-referenced to one or more of the curriculum subjects listed in the Content Standards. Use this Idea Sheets Search Tool to rapidly pinpoint activities that are perfectly suited to the grade level, subject area, and content standard you want to cover. Idea Sheets are based on readily-available, low-cost materials such as cardboard tubes, bottle caps, old CD's, etc. You can also Search Idea Sheets by Standards. For more information about RAFT resources matched to Girl Scout badges and Boy Scout activities in STEM see www.raft.net/scouts 1000 Wins Adding 3-digit numbers gets easier with this easy-to-learn and fun-to-play card game. 2-Tubaphones Make an instrument with an adjustable pitch to explore the science of sound waves and the art of music!

This card game helps students learn to add numbers in their heads. 3D Topo Views 3D Tree 9 Digits in a 3x3 Matrix Abacus Primer Abacus Variations. The Virtual School - quality education for all. MinutePhysics. Fringe. TV Show Fringe on FOX Partners with Science Olympiad Fringe is geared toward audiences over the age of 14. This section contains free downloadable Lesson Plans that mix Fringe science with elements of Science Olympiad Division C events like Disease Detectives, Forensics, Sounds of Music, Chem Lab, and Dynamic Planet.

Teachers and students in Grades 9-12 can use the plans in the classroom as special projects, tied into curriculum or as Friday brain teasers. Every plan will include learning objectives, online resources, a hands-on activity, discussion suggestions, extensions, episode scenes of relevance, and National Science Standards Alignment. Science of Fringe Lesson Plans The Science of Fringe Lessons Plans are the centerpiece of a public service and promotional campaign designed to raise awareness about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and will be posted after each episode airs on the Fringe show website and on FOX affiliate sites across the US. Season 4. Science Behind The News. The National Science Foundation in partnership with NBC learn bring you the first story in this new series examining the science of political polls and random sampling As disease-causing bacteria becomes increasingly resistant to antibiotics, scientists like Erin Carlson from Indiana...

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Chemistry. Col_alg_tut3_scinot. Metric Units & Converting Between Them. Metric Units & Converting Between Them Metric units are very nice to work with, since they are all multiples of ten (or a hundred, or one-tenth, etc) of each other. You can convert between the various different sizes by merely moving the decimal point the correct number of places. The basic metric units are meters (for length), grams (for mass or weight), and liters (for volume).

And the different units convert into one another rather nicely, with one milliliter equalling one cubic centimeter (the "cc" of medical shows on television) and one gram being the weight of one cc of water. There are many metric-unit prefixes, but the usual ones required in school are these: kilo-, hecto-, deka-, deci-, centi-, and milli-. To remember the prefixes in order, you can use the following sentence: King Henry Doesn't [Usually] Drink Chocolate Milk The first letters of the words stand for the prefixes, with "Usually" in the middle standing for the "unit", being meters, grams, or liters. Then my answer is: The Metric System. The Metric System By the eighteenth century, dozens of different units of measurement were commonly used throughout the world. Length, for example, could be measured in feet, inches, miles, spans, cubits, hands, furlongs, palms, rods, chains, leagues, and more.

The lack of common standards led to a lot of confusion and significant inefficiencies in trade between countries. At the end of the century, the French government sought to alleviate this problem by devising a system of measurement that could be used throughout the world. In 1790, the French National Assembly commissioned the Academy of Science to design a simple decimal-based system of units; the system they devised is known as the metric system. In 1960, the metric system was officially named the Système International d'Unités (or SI for short) and is now used in nearly every country in the world except the United States.

The metric system is almost always used in scientific measurement. Table 1: Common metric prefixes. Free Resources. Close If you are trying to view the videos from inside a school or university, your IT admin may need to enable streaming on your network. Please see the Internet Filtering section of our Technical Requirements page. DVDs AND OTHER COPIES Videos on this page are not available on DVD at this time due to licensing restrictions on the footage. Subscribers to NBC Learn may download videos and play them back without an internet connection. Please click here to find out more about subscribing or to sign up for a FREE trial (download not included in free trial). Still have questions? The Science of the Olympic Winter Games videos are only available to visitors inside the United States due to licensing restrictions on the Olympics footage used in the videos.

The Science of the Olympic Winter Games is not available on DVD at this time due to licensing restrictions on on Olympic footage. Teachers Homepage. Awesome Science Teacher Resources. News - Science of the Olympic Winter Games. Science of the Olympic Winter Games 2010 NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, has teamed up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to produce Science of the Olympic Winter Games, a 16-part video series that explores the science behind individual Olympic events, including Downhill and Aerial Skiing, Speed Skating and Figure Skating, Curling and Hockey, and Ski Jumping, Bobsledding and Snowboarding. This groundbreaking project between the NSF and NBC Learn uses the global spotlight of the Olympics to make science more accessible and more interesting to students by showing how science helps athletes fulfill the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius--Swifter, Higher, Stronger.

Read more about the "Science of the Olympic Winter Games. " Each video is complemented with lesson plans which include fun classroom activities. See the new series: Science and engineering of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games View video (4:00 min.) View video (4:18 min.) View video (5:06 min.) View video (5:39 min.) Science Friday.