A new collection within WGBH Teachers’ Domain profiles six sites in the ITEST program, an NSF-funded project to support students in pursuing STEM careers. In the video, Becoming Green Energy Experts , you’ll learn about how students from the Michigan State University/Lansing Boys and Girls Club are learning about home energy efficiency, energy supply and […]

Resources for tonight’s web seminar, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: Antarctic and Arctic Birds features resources from Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Maga… and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
The seminar focused on strategies for incorporating inquiry learning and ways to integrate literacy and science in effective ways. The resource list has […]

Missed the webinar presentation on middle school math and science resources? You can watch the archive
In partnership with the National Middle School Association (NMSA), this presentation highlighted resources and strategies for finding quality resources and connecting to other middle school educators through the NSDL Middle School Portal for Math and Science.
The next webinar from […]

Greetings from New Orleans! We have several sessions at the NSTA Science Education Conference and will be posting the presentations on the blog. Come on over while you enjoy the Big Easy!
Friday, March 20
8:00 – 9:00 AM Informal Science Day Session: Content on the Go: Science
Education Podcasting – Susan Foster (NCAR); […]

Educational podcasts allow educators an easy way to keep current on research and materials to use in their teaching. The podcast series developed for Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears has teaching tips, interviews with scientists, and other ideas for bringing polar science into the classroom.
Check out this month’s podcast, The Lowdown on Climate […]

Use some of these great resources mentioned in the NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar: Chemistry Comes Alive III: Water.
We’ve used a Diigo list, a social bookmarking site to list these resources. Diigo allows you to save bookmarks right off of your browser. You can then send them to your colleagues, make annotations and notes on […]

Will Richardson, author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms and his popular blog recently presented at the National Middle School Association conference in Denver. The session was packed with information and thought-provoking ideas, some of which I have captured here:
Our ability to form groups through the use of […]

No Child Left Inside…
We are in the midst of Earth Science Week 2008 (October 12-18)! Take the opportunity before the week is over (as well as beyond it) to access the valuable materials for teachers and students at the American Geological Institute’s (AGI) Earth Science Week site. With the theme of “No Child Left Inside,” […]

The Great World Wide Star Count
October 20 - November 3, 2008
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/starcount
This Windows to the Universe program is an international citizen-science event that encourages everyone, astronomers and non-astronomers alike, to measure their local light pollution and report their observations online. The Great World Wide Star Count, part of the Dark Skies Awareness cornerstone project for […]

The 2008 Speak Up Survey run by Project Tomorrow is now open through December 19th. This is a national survey of teachers, students, parents and school leaders related to technology in the schools. School districts can participate for free and in the process receive their local data provided by Project Tomorrow.
Some of the […]