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   APRIL 3-9, 2013
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Robot Race 
Grade Range: 5-8
 
Watch this video with students to learn about cars that drive themselves. Teams of designers applying different technologies compete for a two-million-dollar prize to see which unmanned vehicle will make it to the finish line first. 

 

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Can Shoes Fly?
Grade Range: 6-12

Imagine if you had flying shoes. Where would you go? What would you do? Watch as Nate brainstorms how to turn flying shoes from an idea into reality.

 

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Wearable Robots
Grade Range: 5-12
 
Learn about advances in powered exoskeletons-a kind of wearable robot-in this video adapted from NOVA scienceNOW.

 

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Newton's Third Law: Action-Reaction
Grade Range: 7-8
 
In this blended lesson supporting literacy skills, an early astronaut's experiences teach students that Newton's third law of motion-for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction-applies both on Earth and in outer space.
 

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I'll Take Manhattan
Grade Range: 3-5
 
 
In this lesson students learn about the original ecology of Manhattan, or "Mannahatta" as it was known to the native Lenape Indians.
 
 

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