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Marshmallows, Clay Pots, Filters, and some Old Fashioned Algebra

By J'reyesha Brannon

Over at Montavilla Community Center, our group of volunteers has been actively trying to engage teens in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) through a series of low tech sustainability science projects. Low tech and sustainable in a way that given limit…
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Of Blocks and Base Ten

As we wrote in the previous post, we are teaching at four locations in Portland, Oregon.  One of those locations is near the junction of I-84 and I-205; that is the location whose teachers are focusing on science activities based on appropriate technology.  Hopefully, within the next few weeks the…
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On The Ground With Communities of Practice

In addition to developing online materials for distribution, the Flying University Project also visits people in poorer neighborhoods and marginalized communities for on-site, person-to-person teaching.  We now have four teams visiting sites on weekday evenings in Portland, Oregon in order to teac…
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Elementary School Math for a Flying University - Books and Worksheets

Under the "Resources" tab, we have begun posting workbooks and worksheets for our "Elementary School Math for a Flying University" series.  These materials are designed to help African-American and other nonwhite homeschooling parents and families who are not being well served b…
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First Post Under the Blogger Platform

The platform for publishing the work of the Flying University Project has been changed from WordPress to Blogger. Our work was formerly shown at this address. Those of you who have been following our work will now be able to follow it at theflyinguniversityproject.blogspot.com. We believe the mo…
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