ComPADRE, NSDL’s Physics and Astromomy Pathway announces the Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP) Collection of web-based resources for teachers and students of statistical and thermal physics. The resources in this Collection include curricular materials, theory, problems, and simulations on topics ranging from thermal equilibrium to the Ising model. The STP Collection is organized by topic […]
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Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP) Collection from ComPADRE
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 7:21 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Science360 News Service: Brought to You by NSF
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 10:37 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Science360, published by the National Science Foundation (NSF), aims to deliver the full-spectrum of what’s new in global science to everyone who has ever wondered what’s going on in scientific research and discovery. The news service gathers news from wherever science is happening–scientists, college and university press offices, popular and peer-reviewed journals, dozens of National […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Engineering, Health, Interactive, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Social Studies, Technology, multimedia, polar regions
The Inauguration of Barack Obama: Science and Engineering Front and Center
Monday, January 19th, 2009 2:22 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Public health and safety, security, sanitation, logistics, and operations are just a few of the buzz words around Washington D.C. this week as the 44th President of the United States is sworn in on January 20, 2009 in front of crowds that have been estimated to grow to three to five million people. Among the […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Engineering, Interactive, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
“Science Friday” All Week Long
Monday, January 5th, 2009 12:54 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Every Friday NPR radio talk show host Ira Flatow brings listeners interesting and sometimes surprising science tidbits on Science Friday. The show airs at 2:00 p.m. EDT, but can also be heard online anytime. This week’s offerings include Mystified, Solve it With Science, a look at a new book, 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
NSDL Resources Highlight Solstice Science and Math
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 12:21 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Winter officially begins during the third week of each December in North America. This calendar event known as the solstice is marked as the sun briefly “stands still” as its position in the sky reaches the greatest distance from the earth. This celestial alignment is experienced as the shortest day of the year by people […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Social Studies, Technology, multimedia
Teachers Test NSDL’s Science Literacy Maps
Monday, December 8th, 2008 3:34 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
NSTA’s Science Scope is a peer-reviewed journal for middle level and junior high school science teachers. In the November 2008 issue authors Kerri Richardson, Catherine Matthews and Catherine Thompson offered on-the-ground insights into why proportional reasoning is particularly important for middle school teachers to understand in order to instruct their students in developing inquiry skills. […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Engineering, Interactive, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Social Studies, Strand maps, Technology, multimedia
Creating a Tapestry of Science Teacher Ideas
Monday, November 17th, 2008 2:44 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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., […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Engineering, Health, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
“Computational Thinking” Workshops Offered by Shodor Staff
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 5:23 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Technology
NSDL Science Literacy Map Tool Adds “Student Misconceptions” Feature
Friday, September 19th, 2008 11:38 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Mathematics, Physics, Social Studies, Strand maps, Technology
Seeing is Understanding In NSDL’s Large Hadron Simulation
Friday, September 12th, 2008 2:20 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Under the Swiss Alps this week beams of protons known as Hadrons circled the 27 kilometers of the most powerful particle accelerator (the CERN Large Hadron Collider) in the world for the first time. As those protons begin to collide scientists expect to learn more about dark matter and how mass exists. This NSDL resource […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
Posted in Topics: Education, Interactive, Mathematics, Physics, Science, multimedia
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