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Worldometer

Worldometer is website that has realtime statistics from around the world. Some examples: world population, births, new books published and how much money is spent on video games. This is a very interesting site because it is a constant update about the world and what is going on. This is a great activity that shows students real time recorded data that they can look at each day.

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World Population:

reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022 according to the latest United Nations estimates.

is projected to reach 9 billion in 2037, and 10 billion in 2058.

has doubled in 40 years from 1959 (3 billion) to 1999 (6 billion).

is currently (2023) growing at a rate of around 0.88% per year, adding around 70 million people per year to the total.

growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s, when it was at 2.09%.

growth rate is currently declining and is projected to continue to decline in the coming years (reaching below 0.50% by 2048, reach 0 in 2086, and decline by -0.11% in 2100) .

a tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history up to the year 1800 for world population to reach 1 billion, the second billion was achieved in only 130 years (1930), the third billion in 30 years (1960), the fourth billion in 15 years (1974), the fifth billion in 13 years (1987), the sixth billion in 11 years (1998), the seventh billion and eighth billion in 12 years each (2010 and 2022). During the 20th century alone, the population in the world has grown from 1.65 billion to 6 billion.

Sources for the world population counter: For more detailed information:

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Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health. Interesting statistics with world population clock, forest loss this year, carbon dioxide co2 emission, world hunger data, energy consumed, and a lot more

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Hubble Space Telescope

I love this website! It is on the Hubblesite.com ran by NASA. This fun and engaging website that contains news from space, images, and videos. There are also daily space updates for each day of the week, facts that about Hubble. This is a great interactive website for students who love space or a way to expand students knowledge of the solar system.

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iNaturalist

This interactive website is a great way to look and keep track of nature at your fingertips. Students ( or anyone) can record observations, share your findings with fellow naturalists, and discuss your findings. There are many interesting features to this site: you can keep track of everything you find, connect with experts who can identify the organisms you observe, and also learn more about nature by talking with other naturalists and help each other. This is a great site to learn more about nature from others and share your findings for students!

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iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals,
share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

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Ask an Earth Scientist

This is an interactive website where it allows students to ask questions. Students can do this through a prompt on this website that will allow the question to be answered by the Dept. of Geology & Geophysics University of Hawaii. They do have certain rules about the questions that can be asked, for example they do not answer overly generated questions. The questions are broken down by subjects: Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Seismology,  Environment and Hydrology, and many more. This is a great interactive website for students to learn from professionals at a college

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Ask Smithsonian

This website is a part of the Smithsonian Magazine. This section of the website has short videos that answer questions. You can search the site by category. For example one of the videos is How Long Can a Person Hold Their Breath? I think that these short videos  would be a great way for students to get their questions answered through video form.

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How can something like a tiny, harmless spider or a clown make your heart race and your palms sweat? And for the love of all things science, how can you make these fears stop? Find out in this one-minute video, where Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze delves deep into the dark recesses of our minds to get at the facts behind our phobias.

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Ask Dr. Universe

This is an interactive website for children to connect with a professor, researcher, or graduate students from Washington State University. Students with the help of a guardian can email Dr. Universe to ask a science question and they will try their best to answer! Students can also watch videos, see other students questions and vote in weekly polls. This is a great way to have students engage with a with experts in each field.

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Meet an Insect Scientist

Do you love insects? Me, too. In this episode, we meet Rich Zack, an insect scientist at Washington State University.

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How does your body heal cuts and scrapes?
Dear Liam,

Did you know your skin is the largest organ in your body? The average 5th grader has more than 6 pounds of skin. Whoa.

Skin protects the inside of your body from the dirty outside world. It keeps your insides from drying out and ensures a steady body temperature. It lets you feel things you touch.

Your skin also has the incredible ability to heal itself. I talked about that with my friend Edward Johnson. He teaches classes about the human body in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University.

"Skin is the point of contact between you and everything in ... " More ...
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Why do cats rub their cheeks on stuff?
Dear Lara,

Sometimes I get an overwhelming urge to rub my face on things I love-like my microscope. Other times I'm so happy to see my tortoiseshell roommate that we bump our heads together.

I talked about why I do that with my friend Dr. Jessica Bell. She's a veterinarian at Washington State University.

She told me that cats rub their cheeks on things when they're happy or want to say that thing belongs to them.
Read Story

Are mermaids real?
Dear Maite,

People have thought about mermaids for a long time. Ancient people even drew humans with fish tails on cave walls. So, did they really see mermaids or were they drawing from imagination?

The marine experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say that no mermaids have ever been found in the ocean.

But we've fully mapped only about one-quarter of the ocean floor. There are probably between 700,000 and one million different kinds of plants and animals in the ocean. At least two-thirds of those are still unknown to us.

Does that mean mermaids could be swimming around in parts ... " More ...
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How do plants that need very little water survive?
Dear Alivia,

My neighbor has a very prickly garden. It's full of cactuses-including one thorny plant nearly as tall as my house. That's not something you see every day in the Pacific Northwest. Cactuses usually live in dry places like deserts.

I talked about your question with my friend Linda Chalker-Scott. She's a garden scientist at Washington State University.
Read Story

What is mutualism in nature?
Dear Luke and Wade,

When I get the same question from different kids, I know it's a good one.

So, I talked about your question with my friend Angeliqua Montoya. She's a graduate student at Washington State University. She works on a mutualism between pea plants and bacteria.

"I study ecology, which is looking at interactions between different species," she said. "Mutualisms are interactions where both species benefit."
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How did one comet kill all the dinosaurs?
Dear Mya,

It's hard to imagine that one space rock wiped out the dinosaurs. But it did more than that. It killed 75% of the plants and animals on Earth. Me-OW.

I talked about that with my friend Barry Walker. He teaches geology classes about Earth's history at Washington State University.

Walker told me that we call a space rock that hits Earth a meteorite. The meteorite that took out the dinosaurs set off changes on Earth. Those changes lasted for thousands of years. That's how it killed so many things.
Read Story

How do fish hear?
Dear Lamarcus,

My goldfish roommate hates when people tap on his tank. The tapping sound he hears in the water is loud and scary.

I talked with my friend Rikeem Sholes about how fish hear. He's a fish scientist. He studies salmon hearing at Washington State University.

He told me that a fish's hearing system includes sensory cells in the inner ear and in a line along the outside of the fish's body and head. Some fish also use their swim bladder to have super hearing.
Read Story

How do we really know that there are other planets?
Dear Ia,

I looked through a high-power telescope for the first time in college. I couldn't believe how many stars I saw. It's hard to imagine all the planets orbiting all those stars.

I talked about how we know those planets are out there with my friend Jose Vazquez. He's an astronomer at Washington State University.

He told me that scientists look for planets outside our solar system using a number of instruments-like a photometer. That's a tool that attaches to a telescope and measures light.
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Why do cats purr?
Dear Kaylee,

I purr all. the. time. I purr when I get a good question like yours. I purr when I finish answering a question. I even purr when I'm struggling to find an answer.

Luckily, Dr. Sarah Guess says that's normal. She's a veterinarian at Washington State University. She told me that cats purr when they're content and when they're stressed out. It can be a little confusing for humans.

Scientists have two ideas about why cats purr. It could have come from the way mother cats care for kittens. Or it could keep their bones and tissues healthy.

But experts don't agree ... " More ...
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What do robots eat?
Dear Oliver,

I just scarfed down tuna with a side of kibble. That's how I get the energy I need to investigate your questions.

To do that, I talked with Ming Luo. He's a robotics scientist at Washington State University.

He told me that robots don't eat like we do.

"A human has a digestive system," Luo said. "That's how food can be converted to energy. But a robot can't do that. The robot can just take in energy directly."
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Illuminations  from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

This website contains both lessons and interactive activities for students. The lessons range from pre k - 12th grade giving a wide variety of lessons to chose from. Linked to this website there are several games, links to apps, a web sketch pad, and E- Examples. This is a great way for students to practice and show teachers what they know in an online interactive form!

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Read/Write/Think from the National Council of Teachers of English (NICTE)

This website has everything from lessons to professional development. You can search the website by grade level, lesson plans, or learning objectives. This makes the website extremely user friendly. I also find it interesting that you can find professional development videos, meetings & events, and online professional development. This is a great website to use for teaching in the future.

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teAch-nology.com

This website is a great online teacher resource. There are specific subjects that you can select lessons or worksheets for. This website is easy to navigate and use. You can also use it to create your own worksheets! I will definitely be bookmarking this to keep in my teacher portfolio!

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Incorporating technology in your classroom!

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As a future teacher how can we prepare for the ongoing changes in technology?

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How Can Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom?

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This is part of the monthly "Ask the Expert" series in which NC State College of Education faculty answer some of the most commonly asked questions about education.
Technology can be an important classroom tool to enhance instruction and motivate students, but educators must make sure they are using it appropriately to gain maximum benefit, according to NC State College of Education Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Karen Hollebrands, Ph.D.

Hollebrands, who studies how to prepare teachers to use technology to teach mathematics and the ways in which students use technology to learn mathematics, says educators have multiple options for integrating technology into the classroom.

It can be used to convey information, like using a smartboard to display notes, or to complete student assessments. There are also a variety of tools available for teachers to turn to for specific lessons in a range of mathematics subjects.

"There are a number of technology tools that are available today that allow students to interact with mathematical objects like graphs, algebraic symbols, geometric objects and statistical displays," she said. "These are often used so that students can have first-hand experiences with those different mathematical representations."

Hollebrands said she has seen that technology-enhanced instruction that incorporates visual elements can often help students better understand abstract mathematical concepts.

Tools like Geometer's Sketchpad can help students visualize geometric shapes in a way that is not possible on paper while tools like CODAP can help teachers create a visual display to conduct statistical analyses of data. Desmos can be used as a tool for algebra and graphing while Dynagraph - a tool within Geometer's Sketchpad - gives students the opportunity to consider functions in a unique way.

In addition to facilitating greater understanding, Hollebrands said that, in her experience, she has seen these tools help students work through problems at their own pace and receive more personalized learning experiences.

"Technology, when used appropriately, can be a motivator for students. When they're using technology, students can investigate and explore and try to better understand what's going on in regard to mathematics because they have the tools to help support that exploration," she said.

Before selecting a technological tool to use during a lesson, Hollebrands said that teachers must make sure the tool is able to represent mathematical ideas in appropriate and accurate ways and that it is aligned with the goal of the lesson. For example, teachers might select one tool for a lesson with a goal of helping students develop conceptual understanding and a different tool to help students develop procedural fluency.

The NC State College of Education is making sure that future teachers are prepared with the knowledge of when and how to use different technological tools through courses like Teaching Mathematics with Technology. The course gives pre-service teachers the opportunity to utilize different technologies for their own learning, reflect on that experience from the perspective of a teacher and consider how the tool might be used in their future classroom.
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In addition, the college's Friday Institute for Educational Innovation offers a massive open online course for educators (MOOC-Ed) in Teaching Mathematics with Technology, which provides in-service teachers around the world with access to free technological tools and a variety of activities they can use with their students.

"The research that we've conducted has shown that the use of technology, particularly with pre-service teachers, provides opportunities to deepen their understanding of the mathematical ideas that they're learning because they're challenged to think about the ideas in different ways through the technology," Hollebrands said.

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This is part of the monthly "Ask the Expert" series in which NC State College of Education faculty answer some of the most commonly asked questions about education. Technology can be an important classroom tool to enhance instruction and motivate students, but educators must make sure they are using it appropriately to gain maximum benefit, according to NC State College of Education Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Karen Hollebrands, Ph.D.