Archive for April, 2010

Content Clips: A Selection, Customization, and Presentation Service for Elementary Education

If you haven’t had the opportunity to explore and use NSDL Content Clips - make room in your schedule! Content Clips is a great resource for teachers and curriculum builders to find and organize multimedia ‘clips’ to produce web-based teaching activities, presentations, interactives, and much more.  Browse the collection by topic area (e.g. amphibians, birds, desert life, […]

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Earth Day 2010: April 22

This year is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. It all started on April 22, 1970, when Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin hired a small staff, led by Denis Hayes, to coordinate a series of ‘teach-in’ activities throughout the country. Those teach-ins expanded and evolved into an energetic grassroots effort, and effectively, the beginning of […]

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Native American perspectives on climate change, environment…

NSDL’s Teacher’s Domain Pathway has released a new digital media special collection - Where Words Touch the Earth -  for grades 3-12, featuring Native American perspectives on climate change and how these impacts affect Native American communities.  Downloadable videos are available of interviews of elders and other community members by students from American Indian Tribal Colleges. A […]

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