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"Power Tools" for School

Pokémon Learning Games

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Power Tools for School                                                      

Want to grab your teacher's attention by turning in a great report?  Consider creating a PowerPoint presentation, a web page, a photo collage, or a video production as all or part of your requirement!  Nortel LearniT's short (4-minute) videos can teach you to do all of these things.  And, they are there for you to review and in next-steps for you to advance to more complex presentations. 

Be sure, though, to clear it with your teacher first to be sure that it will meet the needs of your assignment and so that your school can bring these techniques and video tutorials into all its classrooms.

 MastertheSciencelogoPokémon Goes to School: Master the Science Game

Explore space with these games at home or at school from the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), Nortel LearniT and Nintendo of America.  The games center on the sun, shadows and space, explored with Pokémon characters and scenarios.  Find them on the masterthescience.org web site and the Nortel LearniT/NIA partnership page.

If you are in Grade 3-5, you might like: 

  • Traveling with Dirty Snowballs (comets): use the Internet  to explore  famous comets and discover how comet dust is captured in space. Practice some of the skills scientists use to study comets and about our solar system
  • Timekeeping by the Sun:explore ways to tell time using the Sun and other natural sky objects.
    • Use a shadow stick (gnomon) to figure out the connection between the Sun's position in the sky and the length of the shadow cast by the gnomon. 
    • As scientists do, record your observations using measurements and digital images (captured with a digital camera).
    • Through Internet resources, you can learn more about the Sun-Earth relationship, shadows, and early timekeeping devices.
  • Living in Space: What might be like to live in space? How might life change?  Why do astronauts appear to float in space? Conduct experiments, research, and learn what it might be like to walk up walls and turn somersaults in the air.
If you are in Grades 6-8, you might enjoy:
  • Expanding Universe: gather what you already know about the universe and then learn how it is expanding as an online astronomer using virtual telescopes and spectroscopy
  • Life of a Star: gather information about stars and their life cycle through Internet sources and by analyzing charts and diagrams, and create a visual representation using PowerPoint or a web page.
  • Traveling in Space: compare past, present and future launch vehicles and spacecraft. Design and create tyour own two-stage balloon rocket as a basic model of modern two-stage rocket systems.

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