A slice of Digos Philippines video

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Somerville fireman video

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Our Mars habitat

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Mars time

This time of year is perfect for an outside science project. My classes are learning about Mars and the possibility of going there in the future. We will be starting the Mars Habitat project this week. Today we picked the themes for the six habitats. Tomorrow, I will announce the lead engineer and assistant engineer [...]

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My rocket launcher video

Here is the rocket launcher that I use for my science class. We build rockets from 2 liter bottles of soda. You can see this rocket launcher in action on the school web site here. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments. Get the Flash Player to see this content. var [...]

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Snow in Pennsylvania

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The snow storm is here

We didn’t get much snow this year but we’re getting a big snow storm today. We have about 8-10 inches of snow so far and it’s supposed to snow tonight and into tomorrow. If you watch the video, you will see outside here in northeast Pennsylvania about 5:30 pm. I’m using two different cameras. The [...]

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Make a paper mache eye

This week in science class we made an eyeball from paper mache using water, newspaper, and glue. Currently, we are learning about the eye and vision. I have my students know the different parts of the eye and a general overview of how vision works. The vocabulary for this topic is the retina, rods, cones, [...]

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Using MacSpeech Dictate

My new software arrived in the mail on the Friday before Christmas. I decided to buy MacSpeech Dictate because my typing skills are not that good and I read some good posts about the latest in speech recognition. Last month, I read an article on Pro-blogger by Jon about how speech recognition software is much [...]

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The Great Bag of Science

This past week I had the opportunity to go inside a large plastic bag and have the air sucked out. Why would I do this? I did it because this demonstration was about air pressure. When the air is sucked out of the bag, one feels the combined air pressure of 14.7 psi. It is [...]

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