Many colleges and universities have responded to their students’ passionate concerns over environmental challenges such as global warming by pledging to become carbon neutral and taking other environmentally responsible steps. Sierra magazine recently looked at the nation’s colleges and picked Ten Schools That Do It Right, based on everything from clean-energy purchases and green-building policies […]

Washington D.C., Nov. 6, 2007 — The National Science Digital Library (http://nsdl.org) Core Integration team at Cornell University led by Dean Krafft presented an overview of NCore, an open source suite of technologies and standards that power the National Science Digital Library’s (NSDL) core infrastructure, at NSDL’s Annual Meeting held in Washington D.C. November 6-8, […]

The 2007-2008 NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar Series begins on Sept. 20 with a presentation aimed at motivating your students to consider careers in math and science. The FunWorks is a digital resource library designed to encourage middle school students to explore math and science careers by showing that while some subjects are perceived as “geeky,” they […]

“I made it from scratch” is a phrase that conjures up images of homemade baked goods and cozy kitchens. The idea of “Coding a computer program from scratch,” on the other hand, entered the technology lexicon to describe a job usually cooked up on-the-fly. While the MIT Media Lab is not exactly a warm kitchen, […]

This computer-generated rendering represents aspects of the natural phenomena of radiosity: “When a surface has a reflective light component, it not only shows up in this image, it also shines light at surfaces in its neighbourhood. And vice-versa. In fact, light bounces around in an environment until all light energy is absorbed (or has escaped!).” […]

This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW reviews the debate over the definition of a planet. Take a test drive of the open access Teachers’ Domain resource What is a Planet here.

On June 1, 2007 Teachers’ Domain http://www.teachersdomain.org/ announced the launch of Open Educational Resources–video segments, interactive activities, and lesson plans in earth science, engineering, […]

This photograph from the “dust explosion” media piece is part of Chemistry Comes Alive! The demonstration illustrates the principle behind a grain elevator explosion.
By Terry Devitt, University of Wisconsin. If you’re a fan of the chemistry that makes things explode, glow, sputter, spin and change color, the Journal of Chemical Education has a Web site […]

This drawing of men engaged in hunting is by Dr. D. L. Kamat from a rock painting at Bhimabetaka located 40 kilometers south of Bhopal, India. The paintings are between twenty to fifty thousand years old.
Early humans scratched images of brave warriors hunting deer on cave walls to let others know what was going on […]

Like most school districts at this time of year, the Baltimore County Public School System (BCPS) is a beehive of activity as teachers, students and parents plan for graduations, put the final touches on summer reading lists, and look forward to “downtime.” The BCPS web site and the Office of Library Information Services web site […]