The National Museum of Surveying is offering stars for sale! This is a unique fundraiser to support the educational programs at the Museum. The goal is to establish a community mapping center at the museum with the money raised. This link takes you to more information: http://www.surveyingmuseum.org/be-a-star-in-our-new-galaxy.html
Happy Holidays!
The following Snow Globe was created for projection on NOAA’s Science on a Sphere. The Aldo Leopold Nature Center generously allowed other Science on a Sphere facilities to use their snow globe image. The following is a YouTube video of the image as it appears on the Science on a Sphere.
SOS Snow Globe 2011
credits:
CIMSS, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Aldo Leopold Nature Center
Patrick Rowley
This video on Plate Tectonics is currently featured on the Khan Academy homepage: http://www.khanacademy.org/. This is just one of the over 2,600 educational videos available through Khan Academy. Anyone in the world may take advantage of this great FREE resource to learn about topics ranging from arithmetic to advanced math & science to plate tectonics! As you can see in the example below these videos may also be embedded in your own website or blog.