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Olivia Ivany
Career Profiles
Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
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Lenny and Lexie Get Ready for a Solar Eclipse
Hands-on Activities
Help Lenny and Lexie get ready for a solar eclipse using your unplugged coding skills.
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Three Ways to Make a Solar Eclipse Viewer
Hands-on Activities
Safely view a solar eclipse by making and using a pinhole solar eclipse viewer.
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How could you build a refracting telescope using water as the lenses?
Hands-on Activities
Build your own refracting telescope using glasses of water as the lenses.
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Data as Art
Backgrounders
Learn about how data can be used to blend math and art.
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Ashley Noseworthy
Career Profiles
CEO/Founder of Edgewise Environmental
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Light and Sound Inventions that Changed the World
Lessons
Students will explore the societal impacts of inventions involving light and sound.
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Careers with Light and Sound
Lessons
Students complete a jigsaw activity to learn about careers involving light and sound.
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Telescopes and Astronomy
Backgrounders
Visible light is only part of what astronomers study. They use different types of telescopes to study the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
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Light Pollution
STEM Explained
Light can be a type of pollution. Learn about the damage it causes to people and living things as well as how you can prevent it.
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Amy King
Music Producer / Recording Engineer
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What Causes Hot Things to Glow?
STEM Explained
Getting electrons excited by heat can cause certain materials to give off visible light when heated - like filaments in light bulbs.
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Light and Its Properties
Backgrounders
Learn about light and its properties.
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Reflection and Refraction
Backgrounders
Learn about reflection and refraction and meet Emily Altiere, a PhD student in physics who studies lasers.