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12/29/2024 - 10:04 am | View Website - How citizen science can help tackle the climate crisis | World Economic ...
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12/29/2024 - 1:58 am | View Website - Resetting the way we teach science is vital for all our futures
Learning science requires immersion in the hands-on process of scientific experimentation and inquiry-based and problem-based learning. To address this barrier to experiential science education, companies like Lab4U use smartphone sensors to design and run science experiments, so any student in the world with a smartphone can experiment with a ...
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