Expressing gratitude for home, family and tradition is a yearly ritual in many communities nationwide. These timely STEM resources from the NSDL community present health issues related to the amount, type and even the aromas of the foods we eat as well as one significant computational aspect of this all-American holiday celebration.

A traditional roast […]

Since 1991 the Toyota Tapestry Program has awarded more than $8 million to 986 teams of teachers for innovative science classroom projects. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., […]

This Web Seminar will focus on dynamic online resources you can use to teach your students about the chemistry of water through the NSDL Chemical Education Digital Library. Join presenters Dr. John Moore, W. T. Lippincott Professor and director of the Institute for Chemical Education, and Dr. Lynn Diener, Assistant Professor, […]

As the nation goes to the polls on November 4, 2008 these resources from NSDL Pathways, which provide access to audience-specific views of appropriate NSDL resources and services, offer classroom information about how voting and polls work, insights into American election milestones, and a closer look at how the technology behind voting can affect history.

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Each year NSDL’s NEEDS/Engineering Pathway digital libraries host The Premier Award competition. A wide range of submissions of high-quality, non-commercial courseware designed to enhance engineering education are encouraged. Recently the 2008 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware was awarded to Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Natalie Linnell, Craig Prince and members of the development team from […]

“Periodic Table Live!” is a notable new resource from the Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL). Students and teachers especially are invited to interact with the periodic table, chose an element of interest, and learn all sorts of interesting information about that element–from details of its discovery, to its industrial uses and other characteristics. Users […]

Along with a series of six Project SUCCEED Saturday Explorations workshops beginning on October 18 in Durham, NC, Robert M. Panoff, Shodor Executive Director, and staff members will also offer parallel workshop sessions on “Computational Thinking–Sources and Resources for Quantitative Reasoning in Math and Science Education.” These workshops are being offered to math and science […]

Ending two and a half days of networking, sharing research results, project outcomes and swapping good stories, almost 200 NSDL partners and projects said goodbye and headed home from Washington D.C. on October 2 to continue building NSDL’s capacity as a national platform for cyberlearning. Presentations will be downloadable from the Annual Meeting Full Schedule […]

NSDL’s Annual Meeting is set to take place from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 2008 in Washington, D.C. This year, the program focuses on the complementary efforts of mature NSDL projects in a format developed to highlight the collective work from NSDL projects. Achievments in professional development and outreach with K12 and higher education audiences; […]

Teachers work to connect broad learning concepts, standards and educational resources in K12 classrooms to ensure that their students’ progress is both developmentally sound and measurable. The new version of the National Science Digital Library’s Science Literacy Map (SLM) tool is an easy-to-use service that finds and presents students  with the right resource at just the right moment. SLM provides visualizations for […]