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A Cool NGSS Resource

The Concord Consortium has this interesting website that provides computer simulations/models for scientific concepts.  The student can select a practice, a core idea, and a crosscutting concept then the website provides several models to play with.   At least, that's what I thought it did.

I selected as follows

Practice: analyzing data
Core idea; Earth and space science
Cross cutting concept: energy

The website gave me a whole bunch of different simulations but it also gave me a really cool real-world experiment on evaporative cooling.  Since this week is college and career week at my school I think I'll do this with my class and talk about skipping college and working as an HVAC technician instead.

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