‘Kinetic City’ Web Site Finds Fun in Science
Once a week, in a classroom at Thomson Elementary School, children comb through fossils, devise strategies to power vast cities, and guide spaceships into their docks.
Those exploits are occurring via Kinetic City, an online supplementary education program that seeks to spark an interest in science among minority and female students through interactive games, experiments, and other activities.
Kinetic City targets students in grades 3-5, most of whom use the site in after-school programs, though some schools use...
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