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Monday, March 14, is Pi Day. Get it? 3/14?
Pi – that glorious and notorious number starting 3.14159265358979323846 but stretching to infinity – is incredibly important. It expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It is represented by the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet – π. And it goes on forever without falling into a repeating pattern (making it an irrational number).
But does it actually exist?
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IDEAS & INSPIRATION,
Science,
Activities,
Hands-on Learning,
Math
I’m writing this while sitting in a coffee shop at a table near the door. Every time a new customer enters, I’m hit with a swirl of arctic air that chills me to the core. For me, that prognosticating groundhog can’t come out of his den soon enough.
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IN THE CLASSROOM,
Middle School,
Elementary School,
IDEAS & INSPIRATION,
Homeschool,
Science,
STEM,
Activities,
Hands-on Learning,
STEAM
A great physical science education tool isn’t just exciting while you are using it; it continues to provoke thought and make real-world connections well after you’ve placed it back on the shelf. Case in point: I recently spent time exploring Pitsco’s T-Bot® Hydraulic Arm. It was a fun challenge using the hydraulic robot arm to pick up and move blocks, and I thought about links to automation and heavy machinery as I used it. But, to my surprise, after I put the device away, what I really couldn’t stop thinking about was my own arm.
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IN THE CLASSROOM,
Middle School,
Elementary School,
High School,
ROBOTICS,
Teacher Resources,
Science,
Technology,
STEM,
Authentic Learning,
Activities,
Hands-on Learning
December 8 is Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day, the day we use our imaginations to travel to the past or future. You’ll find yourself in the future eventually, but it’s natural to want a sneak peek. Will we have flying cars at last? Will the world still revolve around silly dances on TikTok?
Not even our imaginations can answer for sure.
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IDEAS & INSPIRATION,
Science,
Technology,
STEM,
Engineering,
Careers,
Coding,
Future Ready,
Hands-on Learning,
Math,
Workforce Development,
Women in STEM
Since its founding in 1998, the Urban Youth Racing School (UYRS) in Philadelphia has earned a fair amount of publicity for the spectacular opportunities it offers to inner-city students. Sneak a peek during the school’s Build A Dream summer program, and you are likely to see students learning about engines, designing cars, and racing go-karts as part of a simulated racing team.
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Middle School,
High School,
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM,
Competitions,
Science,
STEM,
Dragsters,
Engineering,
Careers,
Authentic Learning,
Activities,
Future Ready,
21st Century Skills,
Maker Ed,
Hands-on Learning,
STEAM,
Workforce Development,
Art