The Cogs
Website supports the integration of NASA's Virtual Lab
into middle and high school science classrooms.
You can help to
connect a generation of students to science now.
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Cogs: Connecting a Generation to Science
Developed by scientists at the Beckman Institute, NASA's Virtual Lab is a free software download that provides access to a variety of advanced microscopes with specimens requested by teachers. The Cogs Website supports teachers and parents using the Virtual Lab. Learn more about the Virtual Lab or read on for resources to support science teaching.
Teach: NASA's Virtual Lab
(with more for your students)
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Search and Create Cogs Lesson Plans and Resources
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Interact with Experts |
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Develop Rubrics and Problem-based Activities |
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Use these content-related Teaching Questions developed by a faculty member in the Saint Leo University Science Dept. (7 pages). These offer questions or starting points for engaging your students using the Virtual Lab specimens. |
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Here is an Example of a Lesson Plan: "The Elements of the Lithosphere" by a Winter Park High School science teacher. This gives a teaching idea and shows an approach to using the Virtual Lab. (2 pages). This also shows the format used in the lesson plan creation template on this Website. |
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Teaching Ideas have been developed to support the Virtual Lab. See these and more in the section for Teacher Trainers - share these resources with those who train teachers in your school or district. |
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Watch: Learn About
the Virtual Lab Microscopes |
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Watch: Learn About
the Virtual Lab Specimens |
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Careers in Microscopy to share with your students |
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Infinity is a suite of online games and activities focused on telescopes and microscopes built to help integrate the Virtual Lab into classrooms. Infinity includes: Glimpse, Mercury 13, and Innovation Orbit. (Best viewed at a resolution of 1024x768.) |
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For Students - Games and More:
Resources Beyond NASA's Virtual Lab
*(this is an Applet or small program) create it with science vocabulary to download and play (students can create these for each other!) Once created you can run this off a computer without an Internet connection and share this with other teachers or students.
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