via youtube.com
This 6.5 minute video on how we got the rover to Mars is a must watch. I cannot imagine how the engineers felt after landing.
First Ever Panoramic View of the Sun Released by NASA
via bigthink.com
A great article on Big Think about NASA's new ability to take dual images of the sun giving them the ability to monitor sunspot activities and more. This is the first panoramic view of the sun released by NASA.
via @lenkendall
The Concord Consortium - beautiful math and science software and tools - free!
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via concord.org
I can't believe I have never seen this group before, but the Concord Consortium has some tremendous math and science resources that are worth exploring. Do let me know if you are using these resources in your classroom and if any have been particularly good.
10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics
via makeuseof.com
MakeUseOf.com put together a nice compilation of free tools for making infographics. Is anyone doing this with their students? It seems like it would meet many benchmarks/standards of visual literacy, understandings of data, metrics, and more. A combined math art science project is stirring in my mind.