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. […]
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Teachers Test NSDL’s Science Literacy Maps
Monday, December 8th, 2008 3:34 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
WGBH Teachers’ Domain Reaches Out to Student Video Producers and Makes Media More Accessible
Monday, December 1st, 2008 2:53 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
“Youth Voices” is an open call from WGBH Teachers’ Domain for ideas from 13-18 year olds who would like to produce video segments about climate change. “Youth Voices” will kick off in January, with a series of three informative webinars for student filmmakers. To find out more check out WGBH […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, 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
Chemistry Comes Alive III: Water—upcoming web seminar on December 9th, 6:30pm-8:00pm Eastern Time
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 4:21 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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, […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies
Math and History Featured in NSDL Resources About Voting
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 5:05 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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.
Cast […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Engineering, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
The NSDL Community at Its Best
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 1:06 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Science, Social Studies, Technology
Get Ready for Washington: NSDL 2008 Annual Meeting
Friday, September 26th, 2008 9:14 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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; […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, 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
Keeping a Digital Promise
Monday, August 18th, 2008 9:29 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
On Thursday, July 31, 2008, Digital Promise, a fund to keep America competitive in this digital century by transforming education, workforce training, and lifelong learning, was passed by both the U.S. House and Senate as part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. It is expected to be signed into law by President […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Science, Social Studies, Technology
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