Science+Wordle

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**Description:** Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

**Getting Started:**
 * 1) Navigate to @http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie.html
 * 2) Select and copy all text under the biography section
 * 3) Navigate to www.wordle.net
 * 4) Click "Create"
 * 5) Past text in box
 * 6) Select "Go"
 * 7) Edit your Wordle to look the way you want it to look

**Curriculum Uses for this Tool:**
 * 1)  Compare the text of presidential inaugural speeches
 * 2)  Create a wordle document to display survey data rather than a spreadsheet
 * 3)  Create a wordle self-reflection document
 * 4)  Summary of important events for a specific year or compare events of varying years

**Example**: A Wordle Based on a short biography of Albert Einstein from: []