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Continue reading →: The Best Sites for Learning about the Volcano in Iceland
Larry Ferlazzo has an extensive list of resources on the eruption in Iceland. Lots of great links HERE. Also check out a short list from the NSTA Blog. Richard Byrne posted 5 Resources for Learning about Volcanoes on the Free Technology For Teachers Blog.
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Continue reading →: 10 Sources of Educational Science Games
Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers wrote a great post today titled 10 Sources of Educational Science Games. Please visit his site to read about these 10 science resources.
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Continue reading →: Global Warming: It’s All about Carbon
This series of 5 video clips from NPR provides an engaging and educational take on global climate change- See episode 1 embedded below. These clips seem appropriate for most grade levels. Visit NPR’s Climate Connections to see all 5 episodes and more.
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Continue reading →: The Private Life of Plants
The Private Life of Plants (1995) is a BBC documentary written and narrated by David Attenborough. The six (50 minute) episodes of this Emmy Award winning documentary are available FREE to watch on Google Video. Any teacher of life science concepts will find all or parts of these videos to…
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Continue reading →: Students Who Study STEM in Postsecondary Education
The Institute of Educational Sciences released a report July 2009. The quote below gives an overview of the brief. Using data from the 1995-96 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:96/01), this Statistics in Brief focuses on undergraduates who enter STEM programs and examines their characteristics and postsecondary outcomes (persistence and…
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Continue reading →: Washington State Science Standards Online PD
Washington State Science Standards 101 is an on-demand professional development workshop I created using FREE web tools. The workshop takes about 2-3 hours to complete and by the end participants will have an overview of the revised Washington State science standards document. DISCLAIMER: the majority of the activities, slides, and…
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Continue reading →: FREE NSTA Resources April 2010
Here I am with another monthly update on FREE NSTA resources. For April 2010 you will find the following items for FREE: Elementary School Article: Blogging About the Weather Supporting Links: News on Weather, On the Web-Weather, From the S&C archives- Weather, Books on Weather Middle School Article: Using Citizen…
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Continue reading →: Women Are Scientists- FREE Video Series
The NIH Office of Science Education has a FREE video series on successful female scientists in a variety of fields- Women Are Scientists. The videos can be downloaded or viewed online. The series is intended to motivate students to pursue STEM careers. The series features the following 5 episodes: –…
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Continue reading →: Passing Through Science: The Effects of Raising Graduation Requirements in Science on Course-Taking and Academic Achievement in Chicago
Steve Spangler mentioned this report on his blog today. The Consortium on Chicago School Research at The University of Chicago released a report on the effects of a policy to dramatically increase science graduation requirements- an increase from 1 year of science to 3 years in order to graduate. Some…
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