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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

And finally, sometimes it makes sense to set our local contexts aside and explore the universality of a particular content area such as math, or physics, or social science. They don’t have access to exceptional resources or possess out-of-reach skills. Again, these are not perfect teachers.

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Best STEM Subscription Boxes for Kids: Hands-On Reviews

STEM Education Guide

Along with the STEM subscription, you’ll get access to their detailed instructions and online resources when you sign up. Most educational subscription boxes focus on one subject, such as science, engineering, or physics. One box may focus on veterinarian sciences and another on astronomy. Age: 5-12 15.

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Solar Eclipse Activities For Kids

Carly and Adam

This natural phenomenon, where the moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, briefly turning day into night, can ignite the imagination of young minds and foster a lifelong interest in astronomy. Build a Paper Plate Solar Eclipse Model Creating a paper plate solar eclipse model is an interactive way to teach kids about astronomy.

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Best STEM Summer Camps In Des Moines (2024)

The Maker Mom

Entertaining physical activities such as sports, water play, and drama are available every day. Popular topics include physics and motion, fossils and dinosaurs, creative 3D innovation, and planetarium space exhibits. Astronomy camps include programming a lunar robot, spacecraft design, and geology.

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Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language

Stephen Wolfram

Defining my location as the predicted arrival time of the eclipse at that location was then: And indeed that’s exactly what our precisioneclipse.com site told me at the time: What would happen at the “moment of totality”?

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On the Nature of Time

Stephen Wolfram

Yes, the microscopic laws of physics may be reversible (and indeed if our system is simple—and computationally reducible—enough of this reversibility may “shine through”). Given underlying reversibility, the structure is in some sense inevitably “still there”—but it can’t be “accessed” by a computationally bounded observer.

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Celebrating Youth Voices in STEM on International Day of the Girl

STEM Next

I combined my love of photography with my interest in physics and did a project on the lenses of a pinhole camera. I was stationed in the astronomy section where I shared information with visitors about things like supernovas and the Mars rovers. I was apprehensive at first, but her encouragement gave me the confidence to go for it.