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Break out the Velocity Radar Guns and Super Solar Racer Cars - then let the discovery begin! Using Physical Science Gadgets and Gizmos, Grades 3–5, invites students to go beyond simply memorizing facts. Instead, they learn by experimenting with curiosity-piquing devices and doohickeys. The contraptions are part of 30 activities relating to eight broad areas of physical science, such as speed, friction and air resistance, and electric circuits. Like the Gadgets and Gizmos books for middle and high school, this book uses the phenomenon-based learning (PBL) approach to encourage students to experience how gadgets work and then figure out why. Instead of putting theory before application, students go hands-on to learn broader concepts, useful thinking skills, and performance methods (as defined by the NGSS). And thanks to Air-Powered Projectiles and plasma globes, students have fun, too.

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Dr. Matt Bobrowsky is now at Delaware State University, engaged in a number of exhilarating activities in science education, public outreach, and program management. Experience at the University of Maryland -- teaching, research, public outreach activities, and serving as Director of the Physics Lecture-Demonstration Facility, a collection of 1,600 science demonstrations. Served in the Office of Public Outreach at the (Hubble) Space Telescope Science Institute, and prior to that, at the Challenger Center for Space Science Education -- places where Matt developed science curriculum materials, presented workshops to teachers, and led teams of scientists and educators in educational programs across the U.S. Matt has received multiple teaching awards. (See, for example, http: //tinyurl.com/2001RegentsAward ) At UMUC, Matt was a pioneer in online education, authoring online content as UMUC became the the first university in the U.S. to offer online degree programs. Educational presentations on the process of science, misconceptions in science, effective science teaching, science vs. pseudoscience, the Physics IQ Test, and a number of entertaining and educational astronomy presentations. Author of Phenomenon-Based Learning Books. (See link below.) Also see his Process of Science publication. http: //bit.ly/explainscience In his research, Matt has made astronomical observations with many telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope. His specialty is the study of planetary nebulae -- clouds of gas expanding outward from aging stars. (See one planetary nebula that he discovered here: http: //apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap011006.html ) Specialties: project management, physics, astronomy, the process of science, best practices in education, public speaking, and public outre

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