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Magic School Bus Complete, What's Next?

Now that the 52-episode Magic School Bus TV series is entered in its entirety, this looks like "Magic-School-Bus"-ucate rather than Relateucate.

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Magic School Bus Season 2

I spent a few minutes this blustery morning adding Season 2 of the Magic School Bus into the Relateucate database. Interesting that the majority of this series is turning out to be biology based. Enjoy!

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The Earth Spins and Moves

What makes a day a day, and a year a year?

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Ride the Magic School Bus

Why not start with a classic? These books were used in my elementary years and are among the most vivid memories of learning that I have, likely because the idea of zooming around the planets or inside a human body let the imagination run wild. Through the wonder of Netflix, I have come to find out there was a television series spinoff of the books. My 7-year-old watches it by choice, and more than a few times this show has been his answer to a question that occurs regularly in our house - "Where did you learn that?"

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Educational Coding with D3, Part 1

Why not try embedding a little educational material in a blog? D3 is a great visualization tool that enables all manner of interactive content on web pages. If you have the programming bug, or just like hacking through code, you can learn to make interesting diagrams by looking through the plethora of examples in the D3 gallery. Here I'll attempt to do produce a teaching tool for a simple topic: the orbit and rotation of the Earth.

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