As Seen in Class!
January 2021
Bernie Sanders' inauguration mittens meme: The funniest versions (CNet, 22 Jan 2021)
20 Years on the ISS (From Google Arts & Culture)
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Reaches Its 3,000th Day on Mars (NASA, 12 Jan 2021)
7 Things to Know About the NASA Rover About to Land on Mars (NASA JPL, 6 Jan 2021)
VIDEO: Perseverance Arrives at Mars: Feb. 18, 2021 (Mission Trailer) - YouTube
Georgia HUNCH Students 3D Print Parts for Space Station (NASA, 11 Jan 2021)
Gravitational Wave Search Finds Tantalizing New Clue (NASA JPL, 11 Jan 2021)
Uganda Blocks Facebook Ahead of Contentious Election (New York Times, 13 Jan 2021)
China’s Chang’e-5 Probe Drops Off Moon Samples at the Climax of a Historic Mission (Universe Today, 16 Dec 2020)
Feast your eyes on the space rocks Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission harvested from asteroid Ryugu (TechCrunch, 28 Dec 2020)
December 2020
Questions about haveibeenpwned.com - Response from Troy Hunt
Space Updates
A SpaceX Mars rocket prototype just exploded. It was still a success (CNN, 9 Dec 2020)
VIDEO: Japan asteroid sample lands safely on Earth (BBC News, 7 Dec 2020)
VIDEO: China lands on moon in mission to collect samples from surface (Al Jazeera English, 2 Dec 2020)
November 2020
October 2020
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (Netflix)
Language Learning with Netflix (Chrome extension)
September 2020
Recommended Documentary on NetFlix: The Social Dilemma (read Dr. Fryer's blog post about this and social media settings)
A capella video examples
[VIDEO] The Launch of Perseverance to Mars (By Derek Muller @Veritasium - 3.3 minutes)
Great videos on AI:
“In the Age of A.I.” (YouTube Original”) - Narrated by Robert Downey Jr.
VIDEO] TikTok will be owned by a new company called TikTok Global (Newsy, 21 Sept 2020)
[VIDEO] President Trump Approves Proposed TikTok Deal With Oracle, Walmart (Newsy, 20 Sept 2020)
[VIDEO] Neuralink: Elon Musk's entire brain chip presentation in 14 minutes (supercut) - Source: CNET, 28 Aug 2020 (YouTube link)
[VIDEO] What is Elon Musk's Starlink network? (YouTube) - Source: The Sun (UK)
[VIDEO] Conspiracy Theories and Crazy People (YouTube) - Source: James Rallison (WikiPedia)
Dr. Fryer's Dad (Tom Fryer) with Mike Pompeo in June 2017 (At the time, Mike Pompeo was the Director of the CIA, as of fall 2020 he is the US Secretary of State. He was formerly a Congressman representing voters in Wichita, Kansas)
August 2020
Rainbow over the Chapel! (Dr Fryer's photos from August 31st)
[VIDEO] Tectonic Plates - The Skin of Our Planet | Down to Earth
Interactive Ancient Earth Map / Globe via dinosaurpictures.org
GoPro Related Videos
[VIDEO] Laika’s Head of Puppetry explains how stop motion puppets are made
Movie: The Boxtrolls
Movie: Kubo and the Two Strings
April 2020
[VIDEO] COVID-19 Animation: What Happens If You Get Coronavirus? (YouTube)
Also check out "A Kids Guide to the Coronavirus" by The New York Times (The Daily Podcast) from March 27, 2020
March 2020
[VIDEO] Astronaut Chris Hadfield Breaks Down His 'Space Oddity' Video (YouTube)
[VIDEO] Chris Hadfield and Barenaked Ladies | I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing) (YouTube)
[VIDEO] Space Oddity by Cmdr. Chris Hatfield (YouTube)
Air Force Academy Drone Light Show (YouTube) - USAFA - US Space Force
February 2020
Minecraft Parody Videos:
VIDEO: What is a Hotspot? ( YouTube version - by @PowerCert)
Newsy (Good source for unbiased news videos)
12 Year Old Inventor Payton Roberson on the Ellen show (from 2013, Peyton is now a 12th grader in Florida, Casady teacher Mrs. Braun was his 3rd grade teacher!)
January 2020
Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World (available only through 10 Jan 2020. Mrs. Gardner in Casady Primary division helped create this in 2012 when she lived in Baltimore!)
December 2019
Deciphering The Vast Scale of the Universe | STELLAR (YouTube)
This Person Does Not Exist - Test yourself (backstory1 - backstory2)
ONE NATION. ONE TEAM. 23 Stories: Alex Morgan (USA Soccer)
November 2019
Inspiration: The High School Socials - Minecraft School Roleplay
Amazing Robots
October 2019
Apollo 11 As They Shot It via Immersive (AR/VR) – The New York Times
VIDEO: AlphaStar: The inside story (YouTube)
DeepMind’s AI has now outcompeted nearly all human players at StarCraft II
Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals
Link to the Headphones we use in our Computer Labs (shared by student request)
Experiments by Apple Shot on iPhone (YouTube Playlist)
Hawaii 2009 Photos by Dr. Fryer (BIG Island - Volcano House!)
NASA posts a photo of the sun looking like a giant flaming jack-o'-lantern (CNN - via NASA)
Scams That Should be Illegal (9 min - YouTube) - accompanies the lesson "Don't Get Tricked Online"
Remembering Our Sweet Willow (3 min - YouTube)
Have I Been Pwned (search by email address)
Sounds of My World (by Dr Fryer)
Science of Pixar Photos (sciencebehindpixar.org) - Modeling Challenge
[VIDEO] NASA Gangham Style (YouTube)
VideoStar app & Example 1 ( YouTube) - Example 2 (YouTube)
[VIDEO] Space Oddity by Cmdr. Chris Hatfield (YouTube)
September 2019
[VIDEO] More Parkour Atlas (YouTube)
[VIDEO] The Blue Marble (YouTube)
[VIDEO] Dear Apple: Face to Face — Apple Watch (Apple, 10 Sept 2019) - 3 min, 43 sec (YT link)
WikiPedia pages: Mark Zuckerberg and Deep Fake Video
Chinese deepfake app Zao sparks privacy row after going viral (Guardian, 2 Sep 2019)
[VIDEO] What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler (Shared during 5-10 Photo Digital Story Project Intro - YT link)
August 2019
Video: Types of seismic waves (2.5 min)
Some of our favorite sources for Wonder Links are the websites and YouTube channels:
Dr. Fryer's "Curiosity Links" from 2013-2015 when he taught STEM in Yukon, Oklahoma are also available.
Great websites with new content, always great to check out!
When Dr. Fryer (@wfryer) and Mrs. Fryer (@sfryer) share a link on Twitter with the hashtag #WonderLink, it's auto-posted to ourwonderlinks.blogspot.com via IFTTT. These are the latest posts! (via Power.io)
Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash. "Spiral Jetty, United States"