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There is no STEM, without STEAM...

In 1972, Steve Jobs took a calligraphy class at Reed College. This class so inspired him that many years later while designing the first Apple computer he put all that love and artistry for typography into his work. Since Windows computers at that time copied everything Apple did, today all computers have the ability to craft beautifully designed books, papers, posters etc.. So from one art class in typography the world has benefitted greatly. In a world dominated by ones and zeros, we all owe Jobs a debt of gratitude for bringing creativity into the world of technology.

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Interactive Simulations for Physics, Chemistry, Math, Earth Science, and Biology

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Middle School Resources

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"People have the mistaken idea that technology is something new or modern..." Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism, the First Computer from Ancient Greece

Antikythera Mechanism is a complex astronomical instrument capable of predicting phenomena such as the conjunction (alignment) of celestial bodies, calculating the relative positions of the five planets known in antiquity (Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury and Mars), and predicted the time and color of eclipses.

Ancient computer may have had its clock set to 23 December 178 BC

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PROFILES IN SCIENCE Triangulating Math, Mozart and ‘Moby-Dick’

Which MICROCONTROLLER for Your ELECTRONIC FASHION?

More Electronic Fashion Art from Anouk Wipprecht

How to make nearly everything....

Digital Visions for Fashion and Textiles: Made in Code 1st Edition

Oddly enough, great fires have been the catalyst for innovation& rebirth. After London's Great Fire - 350 years ago this year - there were radical plans to transform the city. Architects use disasters as a chance to rebuild in a new way.

Physics and Astronomy Reference

An award-winning interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators and particle detectors

Experiments by J.J. Thomson in 1897 led to the discovery of a fundamental building block of matter

The Exploratorium isn't just a museum; it's an ongoing exploration of science, art and human perception—a vast collection of online experiences that feed your curiosity.

PBS - Science & Nature

Blood Typing Game

DNA Game

Physical Sciences, Engineering, Chemical, Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Energy, Engineering, Materials Science, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy

Instrumental in creating the Theory of Plate Tectonics

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1. How are the building blocks of planets assembled? 2. What are the contituents of circumstellar disks that give rise to planetary systems? 3. Do planets in a planetary system form in place, or travel inwards after forming in the outer reaches of the system?

Lunar and Planetary Institute

Mars Science Rover

Science Games - Physics, Medicine, Chemistry. Nobelprize.org's educational section consists of 46 productions. Of these, 29 are interactive learning games of various sorts and degrees of difficulties. Most of them also includes a "Read more" about the subject.Enjoy learning!

Browse hundreds of webcasts, video clips, podcasts, and slideshows from the Exploratorium's collection of original programming, from remote scientific expeditions to fun hands-on activities.

Laser Interferometer Gravitational -Wave Observatory - National Science Foundation, Cal-Tech & MIT

U.California, Santa Barbara

Find this book in the Biography Section of the CHS Library. B TES

Physics Girl is a YouTube channel created by Dianna Cowern that adventures into the physical sciences with experiments, demonstrations, and cool new discoveries. Physics Girl has videos for every atom and eve.

Genomic Study Reveals New Zealand's Tuatara Is Like No Other Animal on The Planet

The physics that tells us what the Universe is made of

What the Heck is This? Click to find out..

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Online Science Museum of London

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Nikola Tesla

From Russia With Love - Play the Theremin

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Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) unites a classical portrayal of Christ with a shape that only exists in mathematical theory. Dalí’s floating cross is what Banchoff describes as “an unfolded four-dimensional cube”. In a 2012 lecture given at the Dalí Museum, Banchoff explains how the artist was trying to use “something from a three-dimensional world and take it beyond… The exercise of the whole thing was to do two perspectives at once – two superimposed crosses.”

Mars Rover

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Engineering & Technology Study Resources

From 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) engaged in the Cold War, a conflict in which the communist Soviet Union and the democratic United States competed for influence over countries around the world.

The 19th Century plug that's still being used

#Throwback Raceday: Jaguar builds six brand-new 1964 E-Type time machines. The auto industry is so convinced of its own progress that it only ever looks backward to point out how much better something is than whatever it replaced. Better torsional rigidity! Better flame propagation under low-load conditions! Better thermal efficiency from the door-lock actuators!

The century-old detective stories are being studied by today’s neurologists – but why? As it turns out, not even modern technology can replace their lessons in rational thinking.

Largest ever 'age map' traces galactic history

How air conditioning changed the world. The same paper had to be printed four times in four colours, and if the humidity changed between print runs, the paper would slightly expand or contract. Even a millimetre's misalignment looked awful. The printers asked heating company Buffalo Forge to devise a system to control humidity. A young engineer called Willis Carrier figured out that circulating air over coils that were chilled by compressed ammonia maintained the humidity at a constant 55%. Willis Carrier was quick to see the wider potential of his humidity-controlling invention.

How to Build Your Own Water Rocket Like the One on the left

40 years later: The Blizzard Of '78 in photos..

15 ft high snow drifts.. Snow falling at 4 inches per hour.. Martial law for a week.. Army Engineers came from as far away as North Carolina to help clear the snow

Books Found In the Saugus Middle High School Learning Commons

Parallel worlds : a journey through creation, higher dimensions, and the future of the cosmos. 523KAK

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Breakthrough : how one teen innovator is changing the world. 610.92 AND

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NASA's AIRS Captures Polar Vortex Moving in Over US

Science and Art Become one...

Amazing Technology Invented By MIT - Tangible Media

Rubens' Tube is an awesome demo and here we take it to the next level with a two-dimensional 'Pyro Board'. This shows unique standing wave patters of sound in the box.

The world's roundest object helps solve the longest running problem in measurement -- how to define the kilogram.
A kilogram isn't what it used to be. Literally. The original name for it was the 'grave', proposed in 1793 but it fell victim to the French Revolution like its creator, Lavoisier. So begins the tale of the most unusual SI unit. The kilogram is the only base unit with a prefix in its name, and the only one still defined by a physical artifact, the international prototype kilogram or IPK.

Eyesight Yields Clues For Detecting Cancer

Mantis shrimp, a group of aggressive, reef-dwelling crustaceans, take more than one first-place ribbon in the animal kingdom. Outwardly, they resemble their somewhat larger lobster cousins, but their colorful shells contain an impressive set of superpowers.

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My Solar System

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Gravity

DescriptionBuild your own system of heavenly bodies and watch the gravitational ballet. With this orbit simulator, you can set initial positions, velocities, and masses of 2, 3, or 4 bodies, and then see them orbit each other.
Sample Learning Goals

Predict the necessary mass, velocity, and distance from the sun of a planet in order for this planet to make a circular orbit around a sun.
What happens when you increase or decrease the mass of the planet, but keep everything else constant? Does this agree with your prediction?
What happens to the orbit of the planet when you increase or decrease the magnitude of the velocity of the planet, but keep everything else constant?
What happens to the planet's orbit when the increase or decrease the initial distance between the planet and the sun?

Margaret Hamilton with some of the code she wrote which flew the Apollo spacecraft to the moon and back.

Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon...

Margaret Hamilton (pictured on the left) led the team that developed the building blocks of software engineering – a term that she coined herself. Her systems approach to the Apollo spacecraft software development and insistence on rigorous testing was critical to the success of Apollo. As she noted, “There was no second chance. We all knew that.”

Her approach proved itself on July 20, 1969, when minutes before Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon, the software overrode a command to switch the flight computer’s priority system to a radar system. The override was announced by a “1202 alarm” which let everyone know that the guidance computer was shedding less important tasks (like rendezvous radar) to focus on steering the descent engine and providing landing information to the crew. Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon, rather than aborting the approach due to computer problems. In fact, the Apollo guidance software was so robust that no software bugs were found on any crewed Apollo missions, and it was adapted for use in Skylab, the Space Shuttle, and the first digital fly-by-wire systems in aircraft.

Hamilton was honored by NASA in 2003, when she was presented a special award recognizing the value of her innovations in the Apollo software development. President Obama awarded Hamilton the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Citation
NASA. (2016, November 22). Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. Retrieved from https://www.nasa.gov/feature/margaret-hamilton-apollo-software-engineer-awarded-presidential-medal-of-freedom

NASA. Spacewalkers Successfully Install New Docking Adapter for Commercial Crew Flights. Photograph. 2016. www.nasa.gov/image-feature/spacewalkers-successfully-install-new-docking-adapter-for-commercial-crew-flights. Accessed 7 Oct. 2016.