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Introducing … The Story of Science Classroom Companion

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This downloadable e-book serves as the ideal teacher’s guide to Joy Hakim’s Einstein Adds a New Dimension, the third title in her Story of Science series. The Classroom Companion, which includes a student edition, follows Hakim’s text chapter by chapter and provides teaching tips, vocabulary lists, activities, writing prompts, additional online and print resources, and more. Middle and high school teachers will love how it integrates science, math, geography, history, and literature. Members: download your free copy today!

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Today in Science History

On November 20 in 1602, physicist Otto von Guericke is born in Magdeburg, Germany. Inspired by a philosophic debate over the impossibility of a vacuum, he built history's first. To create this first vacuum (in 1650), he built the first air pump. He also built the first electrical generator, and with it became the first to see electrically created light (when he ran electricity through a ball of sulfur). [ from The Illustrated Almanac of Science, Technology, and Invention ]


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