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<jats:p>Thomas Nassif, a former science teacher who's now finishing his Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience, uses a story about migrating birds to help elementary school teachers improve their content knowledge.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Kids Judge! is a science fair that goes the other way: Researchers explain their work to fourth-grade students.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Lessons about lightning, composting, and how to build battery-powered cars were among the activities at an event organized for National Lab Day, an ongoing, computer-based, nationwide effort to link teachers with local science professionals.</jats:p>

<jats:p> A <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/329/5989/270-f/DC1">slide show</jats:ext-link> captures some National Lab Day activities at Theodore Roosevelt High School and Bell Multicultural High School. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Retired statistician Eva Jacobs uses dice to show a sixth-grade math class that what they are learning about probability has real-world applications--and also that math can be fun.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A new push to get scientists into the classroom began with the best of intentions. But that's not always enough, say those involved with the D.C. public schools.</jats:p>

<jats:p> A University of Vienna investigation determined in 1998 that Eduard Pernkopf's anatomy department used bodies of executed prisoners from the Gestapo and from Vienna's assize court to produce the illustrations in his <jats:italic>Topographical Anatomy of Man</jats:italic> . What should anatomists in 2010 do with an atlas that is both scientifically valuable and morally tainted? Researchers remain deeply divided. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Studies are uncovering a symbiosis between the Nazi regime, which needed to dispose of executed prisoners, and anatomical institutes, which sought bodies for study.</jats:p>