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D. Ripollone is a STAR member of the Discovery Educator Network

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Entries Tagged as 'Project'

Great Citizen Science Projects

June 16th, 2013 · No Comments · Environment, Project, Teacher Ideas

I was checking out various links in the NESTA newsletter and came upon a couple of great resources for everyone (teacher, parent and student). These are projects that can be done outside school and during the summer. First one I came across was a website that gives some good resources on different projects throughout the [...]

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NES Student Challenge: Inspired Science

March 26th, 2013 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, Project

Well we just got the results back. The kids did not get picked for the winning entry. But it was well worth the effort for them and me.  Actually it has encouraged the students to investigate their topic a bit more. I enjoyed watching them get excited (even high school students can get excited once [...]

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#edugood Project 365

March 17th, 2013 · No Comments · Project, Project 365

This is an up date to our online photograph project on www.flickr.com. It’s been a awesome three months, tons of ideas and great pictures are being shared. A total 1.578 photos have been shared so far. I’ll share a couple here and if you would like to see more feel free to see my photostream. [...]

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Lunar Egg Challenge…Final Drop- Part III

February 11th, 2013 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, Project, School Events, STEM

           The final day of the project finally came and the whole school knew we were doing our egg drop. We had a lot of visitors the day of the drop. Each class would drop their landers,   roll their rovers down a ramp, while measuring the distance the rover traveled. I think I forgot to [...]

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Lunar Challenge…the Build- Part Two

February 10th, 2013 · No Comments · Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, Project, STEM, Teacher Ideas

Okay here we go…students began to build their landers and rovers after brainstorming and sketching their ideas. After identifying the criteria and constraints, students went to step 3 and brainstormed possible solutions. Step 4 is where students began to design and sketch their projects. Once students selected their design, they then could build.  Some interesting [...]

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Lunar Egg Challenge- Pre-Build Part One

February 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Honeywell, Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, Project, School Events, Space Camp

“The Engineering Design Process is a series of steps engineers use to guide them in problem solving. Engineers must ask a question, imagine a solution, plan a design, create that model, experiment and test that model, then take time to improve the original – all steps that are crucial to mission success at NASA. What [...]

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NASA Mars Workshop

January 27th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, Project, Teacher Workshop

Today, Saturday January 26th, started a bit late due to weather. The Mars Workshop being hosted at NC Museum of Natural Sciences was suppose to start at 10 am. Bad weather delayed the workshop until 11 am. Upon arrival we were given tons of information and materials for day. Brandon Hargis, from NASA Aerospace Education [...]

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5th day of 365

January 5th, 2013 · No Comments · Project

Well here is the 5th day of 365, Weekend Tradition. http://flic.kr/p/dHTUpB via WeekendTradition | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

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Project 365

January 5th, 2013 · No Comments · Project, Teacher Ideas

  Can’t help it but I have to keep thanking Krissy Venosdale (http://venspired.com/) for setting this up. Since I’m still on break it has been really fun figuring out what to post for each day’s photo. If you want to know about the project take a look at the #edugood page. Today was your favorite [...]

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New Project

November 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Energy Sources, Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, Project

“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give” Winston Churchill As we head into break I’ve come to the conclusion that I would love to implement tons of teaching strategies and assessments, good intentions but too little time. I’ve had to change things around due to some [...]

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