The new Polar Sciences Collection from Teachers’ Domain includes 20 new resources, lesson plans, and student activities funded by NSF as an education activity of the International Polar Year. Teachers’ Domain has also catalogued other resources already on the site that complement the Polar Collection. Nearly all the new resources are available in the Open […]

The Shodor Education Foundation and the Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) have released a new set of tools to help teachers and students use a more dynamic approach to assess student achievement in math skills. The Interactivate Assessment Toolkit includes more than 50 Explorers, Games, and Quizzes that allow students to tailor their […]

The team that made the popular eSkeletons project has launched eLucy, a new site that supports Lucy’s American tour. “Lucy” is a partial skeleton of a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis. Evolutionary biologists consider the bones among the most important clues to the origins of the human race. Lucy almost certainly walked upright and […]

Teachers’ Domain has added 100 new resources mostly adapted from source material in the NSDL. The new resources update their Life and Physical Sciences collections as part of the site’s NSDL Pathways grant. Accompanying the resources are 10 new lesson plans. WGBH selected and developed these materials with the assistance of the curriculum development […]

This replica of the PS-1 (Sputnik-1) hangs in the Cosmonautics Memorial Museum in Moscow.
Fifty years ago on October 4, the Soviet Union launched its prosteishy sputnik, or simplest satellite. It stayed in Earth’s orbit for 22 days, sending back a signal to announce that the space age had begun. Sputnik only weighed about 80 […]

Kimberly Lightle, Principal Investigator for the Middle School Pathway developed by The Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation International Polar Year (IPY) Program (DRL-0733024) to collaborate with teams from Ohio State University, National Science Digital Library Core Integration, the Byrd Polar […]