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Category Archives: Awesome Finds
Awesome Finds: Aquanauts!
The deep sea is awesome in the original sense of the word: inspiring awe. There’s just so much we DON’T know about such an enormous part of our planet. But in Aquanauts, you get to explore the oceans from the … Continue reading
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Resources for Teaching Science
Whether you’re a science teacher, a parent, or someone who enjoy teaching kids about science in an informal setting, the University of California Berkeley Understanding Science site has you covered. There, you’ll find resources for teaching science regardless of grade … Continue reading
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Awesome Finds: Glow
If you like comics by diverse creators with a cool real-world basis to a fantasy world, you might want to check out the Kickstarter for Glow. “Glow takes place in a world where magic catalyzed both industrial revolution and nuclear holocaust. … Continue reading
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Teaching Kids about Anthropology
Anthropology is not a subject many kids get a lot of direct exposure to, though they may learn about it indirectly through other subjects. However, if you’ve got a kid interested in anthropology, the American Museum of Natural History has … Continue reading
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A Couple of Awesome Finds!
We’ve found a couple of awesome projects currently funding on Kickstarter that we thought our readers might be interested in! The first is Box of Bones, “a supernatural nightmare tour through some of the most violent and horrific episodes in the … Continue reading
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OpenSciEd for Science in Classrooms
For teachers looking to teach science in interesting ways, the resources have not always been available. With OpenSciEd, however, teachers have access to open source science education materials that focus on the fun parts of science rather than memorization. The … Continue reading
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Hands-On Labs Wins Education Award
Hands-On Labs, a service that provides digital content and lab-grade materials kits, has been awarded the 2020 Education Innovation of the Year award in the international Cloud Computing Awards. You can read more about this here!
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Awesome Finds: A Mendelian Genetics Game on Kickstarter
They’ve already reached their funding goal many times over, but fans of genetics might want to check out Genotype: A Mendelian Genetics Game currently funding on Kickstarter to get a copy of it! It’s a board game for 1-5 players … Continue reading
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Awesome Finds: Valor Volume 3
Back in January 2018, we talked about Valor volume 2, which was funding on Kickstarter at that time. Volume 3, the final book in this comics anthology trilogy, is already funded on Kickstarter. But if “adapted, re-imagined, or invented fairy tales” … Continue reading
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Awesome Finds: An Ancient Celtic Tree Burial
Archaeologists in Zurich, Switzerland, found the 2,200-year-old remains of a Celtic woman who was buried in a tree. The burial was from roughly the first century B.C., and the woman may have been part of a Celtic community in Switzerland … Continue reading
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