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NOVEMBER 6 - 13, 2012
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What does innovation look like in the classroom? This week, IPTV focuses on innovative resources to help you challenge your students to meet their full potential. From lesson ideas that are cross-curricular to videos that show what new technologies will look like  in future classrooms, there is something here to help your innovate in the classroom. 
Contest
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2012 Teacher Innovator Awards
Grade Range: K-12

Are you an innovator in the classroom? Sign up for the 2012 Teacher Innovator Awards to share your ideas and be recognized for your innovations. This contest is for all PreK-12 teachers, media specialists, technology coordinators and homeschool educators who use digital media to enhance student learning. 
 
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Interactive
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Graphing Real World Situations
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12

Explore and graph real world situations based on students' daily activities. Identify and sketch situational models and answer questions to advance in this interactive lesson.

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Lesson Plan/Activity
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Astronomy and Geography
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8

Use an atlas to explore towns and cities named after planets or constellations. Discover how constellations got their names and were assigned their boundaries in the sky. 

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Video
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What Will the Future Be Like?
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12

Meet the people building tomorrow's robots, 3-D virtual environments, mind-reading machines, and more. NOVA ScienceNOW airs November 14 on IPTV.   

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Video
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Ultimate Mars Challenge
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12

In its search for life beyond Earth, NASA employs a "sky crane" maneuver to land the Curiosity rover on Mars. Learn more about this marvel of engineering and design. This new episode of NOVA airs November 14 on IPTV.

    
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Video
Meet an Astronaut
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8

In this Connections to Science video, meet astronaut and Iowa native Dr. Peggy Whitson who is the first female commander of the International Space Station. Learn some interesting facts about the International Space Station, why half the fun of science is getting unexpected results, and what it takes to not only be an astronaut, but also successful in life.

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