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Aerospace Education Curriculum
The Aerospace Education Curriculum is an on-line introduction to aerospace engineering designed for pre-college students. It includes units on the theory of flight, aircraft principles, rocket principles, aircraft, rockets, spacecraft, life support systems, research, and extravehicular activity (EVA). Also included are a glossary of terms, a list of acronyms, and answers to sample problems. A book and CD-ROM will be published by McGraw-Hill in 2001.
CityLab
A Traveling Lab available to travel to schools in greater Boston.
Crime Lab Unit
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David Legere
Falmouth Middle School
Falmouth, ME
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Log on: www.falmouthschools.org
go to: Falmouth Middle School
on left side of page click on to Class Site
go to: Eighth Grade: Mr. Legere's Crime Lab Unit
Cybertutor
Cybertutor, a Web-based Socratic tutor, can help you and your students with Advanced Placement Newtonian mechanics. You prepare assignments from an annotated library of problems (both calculus and non-calculus). Cybertutor provides hints or simpler sub-problems at the student's request and grades the student's responses immediately, giving feedback if the answer has particular recognizable deficiencies. Besides multiple-choice and numerical answers, Cybertutor can grade words, analytic expressions, student-drawn force diagrams, and student-drawn functions. Cybertutor collects extensive feedback to inform the teacher about current class performance and individual students' lack of foundational skills, and presents grades to you in a gradebook.
Diagnosis and Remediation of Dyslexia
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Gad Geiger
MIT, Room E25-201 or 26-065
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-9646
gadi@ai.mit.edu
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none
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Grade Level(s)
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3 and above
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This program includes a non-reading visual test for diagnosis of dyslexia and a regimen of practice for learning a new visual strategy for reading by dyslexics.
Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets
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James D. Livingston
MIT, Room 13-4066
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-0059
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$14.95
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How to Purchase
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Order through your local bookstore. For large quantities, contact Harvard University Press at (617) 495-2577.
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What causes your cassette or CD player to make music? Stores information on your credit card? Generates electricity and delivers it to your home? The same force, it might surprise you to learn, that keeps your grocery list stuck to the refrigerator: magnetism. In a lively, lucid style, this book tells the story of a force of nature—the "natural magic" of magnetism—that drives the motors of
modern life. The book informs and entertains technical and nontechnical readers alike and gives them a clearer sense of the force behind so much of the working world. (320 pages. ISBN 0-674-21645-8. Published by Harvard University Press.)
Earth Viewer
A site filled with pictures of the Earth from any city in the world as well as outerspace.
Handbook for a Better Future
Handbook for a Better Future is a Web site designed to be a comprehensive, yet concise guide to environmental awareness and activism.
Homophobia in the Media and Society
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Hayden Reserve Book Room
MIT, Room 14N-132
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-5675
mjbelson@mit.edu
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high school, adults
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How to Purchase
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Available to groups of two to four for in-house viewing only.
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In the summer of 1992, the ABC soap One Life to Live explored homophobia in the story of a gay teen and the impact his struggle to come out has on the citizens of fictional Llanview, USA. For three months, this storyline confronted not only homophobia and the nature of fear, but issues of privacy, free speech, and social ostracism. MIT's Libraries and Women's Studies sponsored a panel discussion, which was videotaped, that immediately followed a screening of this storyline in April 1993. The videotaped conference is 90 minutes on VHS format.
Invention Dimension
The Invention Dimension is an information resource on the World Wide Web for students, teachers, and anyone who wants to learn more about American inventors and their discoveries. The site is designed to provide facts and fun about invention and innovation, and to direct visitors to related topics. It also features an extensive list of links to other sites related to inventors and inventing, from the ridiculous ("Wacky Patent of the Month") to the sublime ("The AIDS Patents Project"). The Invention Dimension is sponsored by MIT's Lemelson-MIT Program, which is dedicated to fostering American invention and innovation. Each year, the Program celebrates outstanding contemporary US inventors through its awards and educational outreach activities.
Marine Aquaculture: How to Raise Saltwater Fish in the Classroom
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Brandy Moran
MIT Sea Grant College Program
Building E38-300
292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-5944
(617) 252-1615 fax
bmmoran@mit.edu
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$15
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6–12
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How to Purchase
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Order from MIT Sea Grant College Program Publications at (617) 253-7092 or order on-line at http://web.mit.edu/
seagrant/publications/
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Did you know that aquaculture is really just another kind of farming, with the "crops" raised in water? Because it involves many different disciplines, such as biology, chemistry, math, and technology, aquaculture is an excellent teaching tool. This curriculum, based on MIT Sea Grant's Marine Finfish Hatchery, teaches students all they need to know to start a hatchery in the classroom. Various topics include constructing and setting up a system, maintaining the system and its water quality, raising food for the fish, and developmental biology.
MIT Sea Grant's Exotic Species Web Site
The Exotic Species Web pages provide information on marine and freshwater biological invaders, geographic distributions, research activities, conferences, and new invading species. Resources for educators are available through the Web site, including fact sheets, ballast water treatment methods, selected articles and documents, reporting opportunities for introduced species, and slides (zebra mussels, ballast water, and marine species). Sponsored by the MIT Sea Grant College Program.
StarLogo
Star Logo is an MIT computer simulation workshop for K-12 public and private school teachers.
Voyage of the MIMI
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Peter G. Marston
MIT, Room NW22-225
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-5722
marston@pfc.mit.edu
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Cost
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varies
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Grade Level(s)
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elementary, middle school
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How to Purchase
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Contact the Institute for Interdisciplinary and Experiential Education, P.O. Box 1184, Gloucester, MA 01930.
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"Voyage of the MIMI" is an interdisciplinary, multimedia math and science presentation geared toward fourth- through eighth-graders using connected educational television, computer software, and other instructional materials.
World Biodiversity Database
If you want to do research on a living organism, try this site. It presently has entries for 200,000 species and plans to eventually include all 1.7 million known organisms on Earth.
Workable Peace
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Prof. Lawrence Susskind
MIT, Room 9-332
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-2026
susskind@mit.edu
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How to Purchase
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More information is available on the Web (www.workablepeace.org). Teachers' guides can be purchased
from the Clearinghouse at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (www.pon.harvard.edu).
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Workable Peace is a high school curriculum that social studies, history, and language teachers can use to introduce their students to ways of handling inter-group, particularly inter-ethnic, conflict. The curriculum is organized around a series of simulations that immerse students in conflict resolution efforts in Rwanda, Guatemala, Ireland, and the Middle East. Students also learn a Framework for Peacemaking that can be applied in their own communities. The curriculum was prepared by the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and the Consensus Building Institute (in Cambridge, Massachusetts) and has been pilot-tested at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and at public schools in New York and Arizona.
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