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Links and Resources from ScIC14 featuring Disney Imagination Campus

Sign up for our next events: Sign up for the PD webinar with the Amoeba Sisters for anyone teaching biology or biology...
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5 Best Practices for Project-Based Learning

Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a dynamic classroom approach in which students actively explore real-world problems and...
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Climbing High with PocketLab: Exploring the Science of Climbing

Hello teachers and science enthusiasts! Today, we delve into the exhilarating domain of sports science, spotlighting...
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Rocketry Lessons: Exploring Real Data with PocketLab and Estes Rockets

Learning science is no longer confined to the corners of traditional classrooms. The educational technology market has...
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Teaching Indoor Air Pollution Using Real-Time Data

PocketLab super teacher, Kristi Schertz teaches her students about indoor air pollution using PocketLab Air in this...
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How PocketLab Notebook Supports Inquiry-based Learning and Scientific Practices

PocketLab Notebook is an all-in-one digital science platform designed for classrooms that supports inquiry-based...
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Exploring STEM with Water Rockets at St-Lambert Intl. High School

At St-Lambert International High School in Canada, 8th-grade students embarked on an exhilarating scientific journey by...
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Five Things You Didn't Know about PocketLab Sensors

PocketLab products have revolutionized hands-on learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)...
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How to Select Hands-On Tools for your Classroom

In today's educational landscape, hands-on learning experiences play a crucial role in engaging students and fostering...
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Align Physics Teaching with TEKS using PocketLab’s Conceptual Physics

As a science teacher in Texas, you know how important it is to align your teaching with the Texas Essential Knowledge...
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Society for Science Awards Teachers Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars

Society for Science recently named 52 dedicated teachers as recipients of awards through its STEM Research Grants...
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Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy Experiment: Gravity | PocketLab

Does a falling object have potential energy or kinetic energy or both? In other potential energy experiments, we...
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Thomasville Students Participate in Environmental Research Project on Heat Islands

In southern Georgia, AP students in Richard Faucett's environmental science class participated in a citizen science...
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Life-Changing Lessons to Bring Back to Your Classroom

The Morpho Institute delivers life-changing PD experiences that teachers can bring back to their classrooms. Here’s how...
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Raise Funds for Classroom Supplies with This Cool Tool for Teachers

DonorsChoose helps public school educators get the classroom supplies they need to deliver exceptional education. Read...
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Have you heard? Science is Cool.

Science is Cool (ScIC) is the largest online science conference in the world, reaching over 130,000 educators...
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Georgia Tech is Mapping Urban Heat Islands in Atlanta With PocketLabs

#UrbanHeatATL Get involved: urbanheatatl.org "We're mapping Atlanta's urban heat islands with community science."...
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A Day of Virtual PD and Exploring Citizen Science: ScIC5 by PocketLab

Blog written by the talented Mrs. Watson. Visit her website here: https://www.mrswatsoneducation.com/ This is the 5th...
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PocketLab Experiments: Face Mask Effectiveness Test

Mr. Vandegrift is using a PocketLab Voyager (But you can also use Weather or Air) to show his students the efficacy of...
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ScIC was born out of the Pandemic

It has been just over a year since the first ScIC launched. And WOW, what a year it has been. ScIC has attracted 46,436...
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First School in Florida to Use PocketLab Air to Monitor Air Pollution

Grade 5 STEM students at Saint Andrew’s School are the newest climate scientists on the block. They caught wind of...
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PocketLab Voyager Shows the Science Behind Juggling

Using a PocketLab Voyager, can an engineer prove that you cannot juggle more than 14 balls at a time? Unfortunately,...
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Physics of Skateboarding with PocketLab

NGSS standards: (Physical Sciences), (Forces and Motion) The PocketLab team knows that our products can be used for...
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Can Science Find the Ideal Soccer Player?

NGSS Standards: (Physical Sciences), (Forces and Motion) Understanding the science of the world will always give you an...
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Using Flight Sensors in your Weather Balloon

NGSS Standards: (Earth's Systems),(Weather and Climate) John Huber is a rockstar teacher with Omaha Public Schools. He...
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ScIC5 'Science is Cool' Un-Conference News!

3/30/2021 9,000 of you have already signed up. It is going to be an amazing day! 3/23/2021 You are not going to want to...
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Students Take Measuring Air Quality into their own Hands

Citizen science engages students in important topics, while empowering them to collect real data and contribute to...
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