Science info, tours, programs at Fermilab
Posted on January 4th, 2010 by ASEE
Fermilab, the National Accelerator Laboratory just outside Chicago, Illinois, offers a wealth of science resources for students and teachers, including online videos, databases, activities and lesson plans. Local teachers will want to visit the Teacher Resource Center and bring their students to the Lederman Science Center.
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The National Education Association (NEA) Green Grants for K-12 teachers invites public school educators to apply for individual grants worth up to $5,000 for the development and implementation of ideas, techniques, and approaches for teaching “green” concepts to students. The Green Grants program targets environmental education as an area of great promise in helping students develop a sense of environmental stewardship.
In celebration of National Engineers Week, the Richmond Joint Engineers’ Council (RJEC) is conducting two contests for Middle and High School students in the Richmond/Petersburg area, the annual essay contest and a new technology contest. Submisssion deadline: Jan. 20, 2010.
“A number of engineering-based curricula, even at the early elementary school level,2 are being used to teach thousands of U.S. children from diverse backgrounds. The success of these curricula suggests that some aspects of engineering are generally accessible to a broad range of children at many different age levels.”
The Lemelson-MIT Program’s Invention Dimension is a fun-filled and at times wacky approach to making learning about invention exciting for the kid in all of us. Have some fun with invention games and explore the wealth of inventor and invention resources, including inventor profiles and patent guidelines.
Develop teamwork, logical and critical thinking and problem solving skills through assembling robots in a fun entertaining afterschool program.
