Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
The PBL-Online website is a comprehensive resource on Project Based Learning. If features materials on how to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students. Visitors can search for projects developed by others or contribute their own projects, learn important strategies for teaching online and learning online, take online courses, browse the video library, learn more about Project Based Learning, and more.
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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
The National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) features an educational portal for nanotech resources, products, information and more. Their children’s magazine “Nanooze” includes articles, games, a blog, and its own interactive website. The portal is separated into resources for K-12 students, teachers, undergrads, graduates & professionals and the general community.
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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
The Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net), which creates activities and materials for its NanoDays programs, has a web page devoted to providing K-12 teachers with valuable tools for teaching nanoscience in the classroom. The web page features links to introductory materials, activity packages from NISE Net, tools for professional development of teachers, college-level lectures and curriculum, and publications about teaching nanotech.
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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
Students build a simulated luge track and make predictions about the impact of surface type, wind resistance, size of slope, and shape of luge on their track; test their predictions by conducting several simulated luge runs; and make conclusions about the effects of physical forces on the sport of luging.
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Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
In this lesson plan, students learn how to find shapes in their world. With the help of the children’s book A Triangle for Adaora by Ifeoma Onyefulu, which shares the experience of a young Nigerian girl as she looks for a triangle around her, students learn the basic shapes, then go looking for them in magazines. They then present their findings to the class as shape researchers. This lesson also incorporates cultural learning.
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Posted on February 1st, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
St. Cloud State University has developed a lab on wheels, better known as the Science Express, that visits K-12 schools in central Minnesota. The 53-foot-long semi-trailer contains a highly sophisticated science lab with equipment that no K-12 school could afford to have.
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Posted on January 25th, 2010 by ASEE
The Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS) offers resources for teachers wishing to help their students better understand why devastating earthquakes like the one that recently struck Haiti happen. The “Teachable moments” page features presentations (including an excellent power point slide show), animations, posters, images, video, general information, programs, resources in Spanish, news, and more.
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Posted on January 9th, 2010 by ASEE
Quirky, entertaining, and informative, Science Update features daily, 60-second audio podcasts, covering the latest discoveries in science, technology and medicine. Carried on many radio stations, these podcasts can also be played on the Website or downloaded, with a large archive of programs. A week’s worth of Science Update news briefs is also available. Recent programs include “Sick Mummies,” “Chewing Gum Myth,” and “Ice Cream Roundup.”
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Posted on January 5th, 2010 by ASEE
The online resource library of Amgen, a biotechnology human therapeutics company, includes An Introduction to Biotechnology and a glossary of terms, both “intended to provide further background on the science of biotechnology.”
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