Collaborating
with WISE ScientistsScience & Children
Collaborating
with WISE Scientists
September 2003
Through an interactive partnership, fifth-grade students collected data on
plants and joined an active scientific community of working scientists. This
Web-based Integrated Science Environment (WISE) project involved asking questions
about plants, growing plants in the classroom, and discussing their data with
scientists online.
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http://science.nsta.org/enewsletter/2004-04/sc0309_31.pdf
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A Flight Simulator Program Takes
Off
October 2003
Aviation concepts, including forces acting on an airplane, navigation, correct aircraft terminology, and general aviation vocabulary, are often part of a comprehensive fifth-grade aviation curriculum. But in one school district, students also learn about flying planes and even train in a flight simulator.
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