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Phun

Posted by: Christine Donoghue on: April 6, 2010

In fourth and fifth grade this week, we started using Phun. It is a program that allows you to make models of machinery and use elements like gears, chains, wheels, levers, ramps, water, wind, etc. It has applications in Science like Simple Machines and beginning Physics. There are different levels that you can set. It [...]

Ology–my new favorite website

Posted by: Christine Donoghue on: January 5, 2010

Remember the movie Night at the Museum? Well the actual museum is the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and their website is http://www.amnh.org/ology/ If you go there, and click on an “ology” button on the left, you are taken to a page where one kind of science is the focus, and [...]


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