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PopSci.com has just launched its PPX Leagues platform. The PopSci Predictions Exchange (PPX) allows players to bet on the future of science and technology. This is a great resource for elementary, middle, and high school teachers to engage students with real-world science and technology news. And now, teachers can create leagues of students—the teachers control the leagues and can create as many leagues as they’d like to, and set the rules and timelines according to their own class structures and semester schedules. Different classes, or groups of students within one class, can compete against each other, and this competition personalizes the activity for the students. In order to perform well in PPX, players must research and follow the “propositions” that they are betting on (PopSci.com introduces three new propositions weekly), and guess accurately as to the outcome. This can serve as a great foundation for classroom discussions on real-world science and technology. To learn more, and create a league, go to ppx.popsci.com. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact taylor.hengen@bonniercorp.com.

PPX Leagues was created with classrooms in mind; the leagues provide a fun, interactive and engaging way for teachers on all levels to bring the real and ever-evolving worlds of science and technology into the classroom. We encourage you to create PPX Leagues within, or among, your classrooms, and to share with us the ways in which you’ve used the PPX Leagues to enhance your curriculums and enrich your classroom discussions.

We will award a PPX Leagues Classroom Award to three classrooms (or groups of collaborating classrooms within a school or school system) each year. Our first winners will be chosen on May 5, 2009. Each winning classroom will receive one free subscription to Popular Science magazine, one free subscription to Science Illustrated magazine, an PPX Leagues Classroom Award certificate signed by Popular Science Editor-in-Chief, Mark Jannot, and an article about the winning classroom, and its use of the PPX Leagues, on PopSci.com’s main page.