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Student Voices November 19 2013

Teen Scientist Invents Life-Saving Cancer Test
When he was 15, Jack Andraka developed an early detection test for pancreatic, ovarian and l…
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Post October 30 2013

How New York City Can Use Lessons from Sandy to Build The City of The Future
Background Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the day Superstorm Sandy hit the Eastern…
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Lesson Plan October 21 2013

Zombie autopsies: Publish or perish...for real - Lesson Plan 4
Created by Katie Gould in collaboration with Dr. Steven Schlozman Author of "The Zombie Autops…
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Lesson Plan October 21 2013

Zombie autopsies: super spooky psychiatric medicine to save the world - Lesson Plan 3
Created by Katie Gould in collaboration with Dr. Steven Schlozman Author of "The Zombie Autops…
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Lesson Plan October 07 2013

Neuroscience basics through puzzles and dance - Lesson Plan
This lesson plan celebrates the recent Nobel Prize for Medicine award winners for their work…
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Lesson Plan September 23 2013

Climate change as a scientific theory - Lesson Plan
By Katie Gould, Teacher Resource Producer for PBS NewsHour Extra Subjects Science, La…
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Post September 12 2013

Voyager Becomes First Spacecraft to Enter Interstellar Space
NASA has announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which left Earth in 1977, is now the first man-ma…
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Lesson Plan September 12 2013

Voyager becomes first spacecraft to enter interstellar space - Lesson Plan
by Katie Gould, Teacher Resource Producer for NewsHour Extra Subjects Math, Science, …
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Post August 09 2013

Tech and Privacy Advocates Clash Over Possibilities for Google Glass
Internet giant Google’s latest venture, a computer worn over the eye like conventional glasses, is …
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Post July 08 2013

Mega Wildfires Blamed on Changing Climate and Landscape
A raging wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona, killed 19 elite firefighters in one of the deadliest firefig…
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