…Parachute Model? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOgUwxa9ffU Students can save their CODAP document to Google Drive, then when they’re ready, they can turn in their CODAP document—complete with their graphs or text boxes as…
…of “Snowball Earth,” but one thing’s for sure–we’ll know a lot more about how the Earth works by trying to craft a good explanation. That’s the way science works! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110525141540.htm…
How can you tell whatβs in the atmosphere of a planet thatβs over one billion miles from Earth? Blog Post
Use a VERY long sampling straw? Nope. Use a spectrometer? Yup. (Explore how this works in our “Is there life outside of Earth?” investigation.) Scientists at NASA, the European Space…
…All they need to do now is find stars that have planets that have at least one moon. “When they’re found, we’ll be ready to weigh them,” said Kipping. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101015140801.htm…
From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/164/ Science is about facts and evidence. There is a lot of evidence that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. You can explore with our models how carbon…
From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/402/ The permafrost line is shifting. It may be slow by tornado-chasing standards, but it’s shifting. A study earlier this year from Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada…
…a single bound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ya3k_WbwgQ&feature=youtu.be The San Joaquin County Office of Education FabLab. Part engineering classroom, part makerspace, the FabLab is a 100% designated student design zone. The idea behind the…
…heats the Earth and makes it habitable for us. So when the Sun is more active, the Earth should get warmer, right? Wrong. New research, recently published in Nature, shows…
…of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. This is just the beginning for finding Earth-like planets around other stars! Learn more about planet hunting in the High-Adventure Science space investigation. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110912143536.htm…
…society… Learn more about how carbon dioxide and global warming in our “What will Earth’s climate be in the future?” investigation. Read the full article from Popular Science at: http://www.popsci.com/bown/2010/innovator/cement-thin-air…