Archive for December, 2008

Middle School: What Do We Know?

The recent ACT Report, The Forgotten Middle, states that “fewer than two in ten eighth graders are on target to be ready for college-level work by the time they graduate from high school.”
Such statements speak to the need for greater attention to middle school students and support for teachers of these grades. For our […]

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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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