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Chemistry Resources: Water

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 […]

Posted in Topics: Bookmarks, Chemistry, General, Science, Teacher professional development

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Middle Schools-What Do We Know? NSDL Brown Bag, Dec 11th

The National Science Digital LibraryƄnd the National Middle School Association invite you to a free webinar from the National Science Digital Library Brown Bag Series:
Title: Middle School-What Do We Know?
Date: Thu, Dec 11, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 hour
Host(s): NMSA and the NSDL Resource Center
Description:
National Middle School Association in collaboration with the National Science Digital […]

Posted in Topics: 2.0 Tools, Online learning, Science, Teacher professional development, mathematics

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Exploratorium AfterSchool Activities

In response to a need for professional development in science for afterschool educators, the Exploratorium, the premier science center located in San Francisco, organized a series of teacher training workshops and online resources for the afterschool community. Even before they started their first workshop, Sherry Hsi, Director of Online Learning at the Exploratorium, and […]

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Online Resources for Science and Literacy

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is a free, online magazine dedicated to integrating science and literacy! With the polar regions as a context, each issue of the magazine contains professional development articles, lesson plans, downloadable assessment probes and nonfiction stories for students, stories of polar researchers, and much more.
The magazine is aimed at K-5 educators, […]

Posted in Topics: Education, Science, Teacher professional development, Technology

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Online Learning: Recent Trends and Resources

In the past year, a greater interest in online learning has brought forth a flurry of discussion on what schools should offer their students and teachers in terms of training and course development suited for an online medium. The 2007 Speak Up Survey conducted by Project Tomorrow polled students, teachers, parents, and school leaders […]

Posted in Topics: Education, General, Online learning, Science, Teacher professional development, mathematics

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Celebrating Astronomy: NSDL Web Seminar, Thursday Sept. 25th

2009 marks the 400th anniversary in celebrating Gallileo’s use of a telescope to study the night sky. As a prelude to the International Year of Astronomy, NSDL offers the first seminar in the 2008 Fall Series: Celebrating Astronomy: A Star’s Story on Thursday, September 25th. Our NSDL experts, Dr. Cathy […]

Posted in Topics: General, Physics and Astronomy, Teacher professional development

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