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NASA Connect segment involving students in an activity that investigates the cycles of solar flares. The video incorporates problem solving strategies while students compute percentages of M-class flares and graph data. NASA CONNECT™ is a series of Emmy®-award-winning, math-focused programs. Each program supports the national math, science, and technology standards and has three components that include (1) a 30-minute television broadcast; (2) a companion educator's guide; and (3) an online activity that further explores topics presented in the broadcast. These programs establish a connection between the math, science, and technology concepts taught in the classroom to those same concepts used everyday by NASA researchers.
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For the Love of Science: UVA Chemistry Students Engage Children with Strawberry DNA

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Did you know that all living cells contain DNA? That’s right, every cell in your body, animals, and plants contains DNA. DNA is short for deoxyribonucleic acid, known as the “molecule of life.” This molecule contains instructions on how to make a living thing; DNA tells you to be you and a strawberry to be a strawberry. Normally, you cannot see DNA with the naked eye. However, if you collect it from thousands of cells, there is enough to be visible. In just a few simple steps, you can perform a DNA extraction at home using household materials! 

Advance Screening of Arthur’s New Bullying Episodes

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Arthur, television’s longest-running children’s animated series, is kicking off its spring season Monday, May 6 with a week of all-new episodes, including two devoted to the issue of bullying.

Explore the Surprising Power of Science

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“This is so cool!” is becoming a favorite phrase of teenagers in science classrooms all over Virginia. Innovative teachers are encouraging their students to touch, manipulate and experience the surprising power of science. And guess what? These students are deciding that science is cool. Recently, I met with two high school Chemistry teachers and talked with them about why they teach Nanoscience in their classrooms. Why they feel it is important to explore Nanotechnology and how this experience might help their students in the 21st Century workforce. Watch this Science Matters video featuring the MathScience Innovation Center's Nanofellows to learn more.

Citizen Science: Cicada Watch

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Anyone can take part in a citizen science project that will contribute to our knowledge of periodical cicadas by submitting observations of cicada sightings to the Magicicada Mapping Project, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Equipped with accurate maps of periodical cicada emergences, scientists are better able to unlock the mysteries of the cicada.