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Welcome to NEWTON Ask A Scientist!
NEWTON Ask A Scientist is an electronic community for Science, Math, and Computer Science K-12 Educators that answers questions to enhance the knowledge of students and teachers alike!
Our service features three main sites, NEWTON Ask A Scientist, a site designed to answer and post certain questions from outside a textbook, NEWTON Teachers, a site designed to help teachers develop an exciting science curriculum, and the Cook County Nature Bulletins Site.
We have been online since 1991, and this site now receives ten to twelve million hits each month!
Thank you for your support and for visiting NEWTON. To see more of what we do, please look below.
About Us!
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NEWTON is operated by the Argonne National Laboratory’s Educational Programs.
Argonne National Laboratory is managed by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
Our online question-and-answer service for K-12 teachers and their students was launched in November of 1991.
Originally called NEWTON BBS, NEWTON has now served students and teachers for over twenty years. Our archive has over 20,000 answers covering all aspects of science and mathematics dating back to our beginning.
In 2011, to mark our twentieth anniversary, we deployed a new teachers' resource site, NEWTON Teachers, that provides reference links, online projects, educational game links, and much more.
Thank you all for helping to make NEWTON a success for over 20 years.
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Our Archives - Where to Start
Ask A Scientist contains an Archive which holds questions that our volunteer scientists have answered since our service began. The archive contains over 20,000 answers, and since 1991, questions have been answered from every country on the planet.
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How to Ask A Question
Ask A Scientist focuses on questions that are not commonly found in libraries, reference books or textbooks. There are certain types of questions that Ask A Scientist does not address. For hints on using Ask A Scientist, please read here.
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Ask A Question
Do you have a question that is not in the Archives? Then please Ask A Question. If it i is thekind of question we can answer, we will send your question out to the volunteer
experts who can answer it best. We try to answer you within one week. Please submit one question at a time.
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Question of the Week
This week's question was asked by Tim in the USA.
Hi My name is junior and iam going to do a project on how many times a cat's heart beats and how many times does a dog's heart beats and I need some help and ideas on how to do this? |
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Our Expert Scientists - Learn About Our Staff
The Ask A Scientist program consists of over 92 volunteer scientists from all over the world with expertise in many subdisciplines of science, math and computer science. If you would like to be a volunteer scientist, we would love
to hear from you. Also, meet our system operators.
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NEWTON Teachers
The NEWTON Teachers website was developed by teachers for teachers. We have provided sample classroom projects and experiments that you can look at, ideas for field trips, helpful scientific reference links, educational games for your students, and lesson plans for use in the classroom. Check it out!
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Cook County Nature Bulletins
The Cook County (Illinois) Forest Preserve District Nature Bulletins are classics, and cover a wide range of nsture and wildlife topics. These are provided by the Cook County Forest Preserve District (Illinois). They are excellent motivators for writing projects and science interest activities, and are appropriate for all age levels.
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Update: June 2012
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