Spark your students’ curiosity and hone their inquiry skills with free DragonflyTV Nano educational resources. Sign up for this free NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar, Thursday, November 11th at 6:30pm Eastern Time to learn more about nanotechnology and how to incorporate related online materials into your teaching. Dragonfly TV features six half-hour episodes dedicated entirely to nanoscale science and technology. These videos feature captivating scientist profiles, nanoscale zooms into common objects, and real kids doing inquiry-based investigations at science centers and universities nationwide.

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) Pathway will steward a broad collection of educational resources that facilitate students, teachers, and citizens becoming climate literate and informed about “the climate’s influence on you and society and your influence on climate.” The CLEAN Pathway will integrate the effective use of the resources across all educational levels – with a particular focus on the middle-school through undergraduate levels (grades 6-16) as well as to citizens through formal and informal education venues and communities. Learn more about the plans for this new NSDL Pathway.

Applications for next year’s Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program are now available online. Spend a year in Washington D.C. working in a professional staff position for congress or within a federal agency. You can view the current list of Einstein Fellows on the Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education website.

Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith - Nobel prize winners in Physics for 2009. This week’s announcement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honors these scientists for their foundational work in areas that have revolutionized modern life: information technology, and digital photography. It’s a great opportunity to utilize NSDL’s ComPADRE Physics & Astronomy digital library to locate resources from multiple collections in the areas of fiber optics, lasers, and photoelectric effect, including Physics Classroom (tutorials for students), Physical Sciences Resource Center (PSRC), Physics Source introductory physics course materials, Physics to Go (self exploration of physics topics) and many more.

Participate in free professional development straight from your desktop through NSDL’s web seminar series with the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). The first seminar for this school year begins on October 15th: Chemistry Comes Alive IV: Oxidation/Reduction. This seminar is for educators at high school and lower undergraduate levels. Register through the NSTA Learning Center for this seminar and others from NSTA, NASA, and more.

October will be a busy month with opportunities to participate in National Earth Science Week, October 11-17 and National Chemistry Week, October 18-24. Both weeks consist of national and local events, speakers, activities for the classroom, and additional materials for the educator. Earth Science Week is sponsored by the American Geological Institute. This year’s earth science theme will be “Understanding Climate”. Chemistry Week is sponsored by the American Chemical Society with the theme, “Chemistry—It’s Elemental!”