Another great learning activity from the Exploratorium Teacher Institute Project.
Current flowing through a wire heats the wire. The length of a wire affects its resistance, which determines how much current flows in the wire and how hot the wire gets.
Note: Electricity can really heat things up! The wires in this Snack can get hot, so be careful.
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Sounds like a challenge!
European researchers claim to have developed a composite material that is basically uncuttable, so with this material, your bike might never be stolen.
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What a great way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage with your kids! @penguinclassroom compiled a list of 9 picture books to checkout. From last year Brightly put together a list of 15! All worth a read and a great opportunity for representation.
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated between September 15 and October 15 of each year. What better way to honor Hispanic culture and history with kids than with picture books? We’ve rounded up informative and inspiring books to recognize the wide range of voices and stories within Hispanic and Latino culture — from biographies to folktales, there’s something great for every young reader amongst these fiction and nonfiction reads.
15 Picture Books That Celebrate Hispanic Heritage
9 Picture Books by Latinx Authors and Illustrators
Check out the newest tutorial from Erin St. Blaine – just in time for Ada Lovelace Day! Make a lovely glowing bottle lamp with a Circuit Playground Express and a strand of warm white fairy lights. Choose colors or light animations using Microsoft MakeCode, and decorate with your favorite stickers.
This is a perfect first project for kids who are interested in learning to make things light up. It’s easy enough for kids as young as 8 or 9 to make by themselves, and younger kids will love to help out, choosing colors and animations and stickers.
This kit was designed for the Autumn Lights Festival, a fundraiser in Oakland, CA for Lake Merritt Gardens — the garden that inspired the game Pokemon Go! The festival is on October 16-18, 2020, and will be taking place online, so anyone with an internet connection can attend. There will be lots of wonderful featured artists (including Adafruit’s own Erin St. Blaine) showing off their LED and glowing artwork. Adafruit is one of the festival’s sponsors and is proud to offer this kit as a reward for donations to help keep the garden open and free to visitors year round. We’re hoping it will inspire a lot of young makers to create their own glowing artwork.
From the guide:
Make a beautiful rainbow colored glowing bottle lamp with fairy lights inside. You don’t need to catch actual fairies, or chase down a real rainbow, but it will look as though you did! Decorate it with your favorite stickers and place it on your windowsill, and I guarantee you it will attract both rainbows and fairies into your life.
We decorated ours with an Ada Lovelace sticker. Ada Lovelace is famous for being the world’s first computer programmer – she wrote computer programs before computers even existed! I think she deserves to have some art made for her.
See the full tutorial here: https://learn.adafruit.com/glowing-bottle-lamp/overview
Here’s a great new blog aimed at #BlackWomenRockMath was created to bring together and elevate the voices of Black women in math education. The site provides expert knowledge in math education in a way that celebrates the brilliance of Black children. Here’s more from #BlackWomenRockMath:
Kaneka Turner, Deborah Peart, and Dionne Aminata met at Illustrative Mathematics in 2018, as lead writers for the K-5 Math Curriculum. There we saw a need to ensure that the curriculum incorporated ways for Black children and all students to be seen and see themselves as important contributors to the mathematical discourse in their classrooms. Ironically, through the process of writing, we found a need to support one another as Black women operating in a rare space as writers for a national math curriculum, and as important contributors to the discourse surrounding math education.
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So many great resources from AMNH:
We hope that OLogy can be helpful to engage your students in standards-aligned online content during this challenging time. Below is a sample of resources at all K-5 grade levels that support classroom learning from home.
Jovita Idar championed for Mexican-Americans as a journalist, teacher and activist. She fought for equality and education in the early 1900s. Idar wasn’t afraid to stand up to violent thugs as outlined in this piece from the New York Times
Idár believed in a kind of cultural redemption of la raza, a term widely used to refer to Mexicans and other Latinos. She believed that the poor living on both sides of the border could be uplifted by education and empowerment.
“She was ahead of her time, fighting against the erasure of their history” as well as “celebrating that nobody should feel threatened by the power of women,” Gabriela González, an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio who is working on a biography of Idár, said in a phone interview.
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With a pause in many sporting events, now might be a good time to rethink where the money goes.
Via CNN
The data collected produced some key findings: disparities between Black and White student-athletes, socioeconomic status, spending on coaches salaries and spending on collegiate facilities.
“We took every player, in every sport, not just the revenue sports, and tracked them back to their high school and calculated the average family income for students that went to that high school,” Garthwaite said. “So we can actually show that it’s not just the sports that lose money and that survive because football and basketball provide them with extra funds, it’s not just that the students are more likely to be White, but they tend to come from richer families, they’ve gone to high schools where the average family income is higher.”
Like a lot of kids, I learned about dodecahedrons from The Phantom Tollbooth. In the book, Milo and the watchdog Tock have this exchange with the mathematical object:
The Dodecahedron:
My sides are many, my angles aren’t few. I’m the Dodecahedron, and who are you?Milo:
What’s a dodecahedron?Tock:
If I remember correctly, a dodecahedron is a geometrical shape with twelve sides.
As it turns out, mathematicians also really like dodecahedrons, so much so that they’ve made a new discovery that adds to a field of study about geometrical objects that goes back to Plato. Here’s more from MOTHERBOARD:
In a recent paper, mathematicians Jayadev Athreya, David Aulicino, and Patrick Hooper showed that there are 31 kinds of straight paths that begin at a corner of a dodecahedron and walk around the entire shape without touching another corner. Such paths are not possible for any other Platonic solid. An article in Quanta first reported the group’s discovery, which was published in the journal Experimental Mathematics in May.
Aulicino, a mathematics professor with appointments at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center, said that the group was inspired by two recent papers demonstrating that a straight path starting at a corner and bypassing every other corner could not be made for tetrahedra, cubes, octahedra, and icosahedra. They then adapted an algorithm to answer the straight path question for the dodecahedron.
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Many parents and students across the United States will be facing the prospect of hybrid learning. What is it? What challenges does it entail? How can families best prepare for this unprecedented back to school season?
Here are some first steps when thinking about hybrid learning from Joaniko Kohchi, LCSW, IMH-E, director of Adelphi University’s Institute for Parenting in New York, and other experts, via Parents.com:
As summer draws to a close, school districts nationwide are scrambling to make plans for the 2020-2021 school year. Some have tentatively resumed in-person classes, knowing that COVID-19 still remains a threat. Others chose either virtual learning or “hybrid learning”—a mix of remote education and traditional classroom experiences catered to individual students. In each scenario, your child can expect school to look different this year.
“Thinking ahead, the very first thing is for parents (and kids) to pause and realize that nothing is ever going to be like this past spring semester,” notes Joaniko Kohchi…. “We were collectively in shock and had to respond the best we could. We now know a lot more about how to teach, what our children need in order to learn, and what we parents need in order to work. We can all build on that experience and plan accordingly.”
August is Back to School Month here at Adafruit! Each week we’ll be bringing you #BackToSchool content! Stay tuned for product and gift guides, tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System, and inspiration from around the web! Get started by checking out Adafruit’s educational resources; such as our kits and project packs, suggested products for young engineers, blog posts for educators and an extensive selection of books to help you learn!
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