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A simple way to start creating online lessons

If you’re just starting to dip your toes into the greater “wild world web” for using digital resources in your elementary classroom, a slight change in the way you approach a lesson can give you a better sense of how to manage and incorporate more online resources in your teaching.
Take for example a math […]

Posted in Topics: Mathematics, Technology: Elementary

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Spice Up Your Teaching: Brown Bag Archives

Our series of summer webinars on chemistry, physics and multimedia resources is now available through our recorded archives. These three hour-long sessions demonstrate a host of resources, ideas and tips to spice up your teaching. Take a look to plan for your school year!

Multimedia Resources: Teachers Domain
Chemistry: ChemEdDL
Physics: The Physics Front

Posted in Topics: Chemistry, General, NSDL K12 Brown Bags, Physics and Astronomy

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Announcing the 4th NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar Series:

Starting this fall, our series of free online teacher professional development continues! Watch for these seminars featuring experts from the NSDL community for the 2009-2010 school year: Chemistry Comes Alive IV: Oxidation and Reduction, Timely Teachings: Seasons and the Cycles of Night and Day, along with seminars from PBS favorites […]

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Inside ITEST: Exemplars in collaboration and career exploration in science

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 […]

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NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar: Antarctic and Arctic Birds

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 […]

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

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Grains of knowledge, grains of rice: A fun game that helps others in need

How about learning chemical symbols while helping to end world hunger? Need to brush up on your favorite classic painters? Improve your vocabulary? You can do all these things on Free Rice, a site run by the United Nations World Food Bank.
You select a topic area and the degree of […]

Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Online learning

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Getting to the Good Stuff: Resources for Middle School Math and Science

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 […]

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

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NSDL Sessions at NSTA Science Education Conference

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); […]

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New Podcast Series for Teachers

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 […]

Posted in Topics: 2.0 Tools, Climate change, Education, General, Science

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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 […]

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

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