http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science The NSDL Middle School Portal is hosting this blog to help middle school math and science teachers find the best online resources on the web. These posts reflect the topics that are being searched for in the Middle School Portal site. We start each post with a rationale for the topic, typically connecting the topic to the national math or science standards. Each resource is hot-linked and accompanied by a brief description by which you can quickly judge whether it's a resource that is likely to be useful to you in your teaching. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:00:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MY DEAR SIR,—The accompanying papers, which we have the honour of communicating to the Linnean Society, and which all relate to the same subject, viz. the Laws which affect the Production of Varieties, Races, and Species, contain the results of the investigations of two indefatigable naturalists, Mr. Charles Darwin and ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/2008/09/02/the-origin-of-species-%e2%80%93-150-years-young/ This article was written by middle school science teacher Todd Williamson for the Integrating Technology column of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, an online magazine for elementary teachers. All versions of this article are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ If you've used a search engine like Google or Yahoo anytime ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/2008/08/26/teacher-tools-that-integrate-technology-wikis/ Data overwhelms our modern lives. How to make sense of the numbers in newspaper stories, in campaign speeches, in scientific experiments? Statistics offers tools to help us organize and interpret data. Even at the middle school level, students can work with statistics in real-world situations, whether actual or simulated. To ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/2008/08/19/getting-dirty-with-data/ What is the Largest machine Fastest racetrack Coldest place Emptiest space Hottest spot on earth? It’s the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that is scheduled to be “turned on” September 10, 2008. The LHC is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, Switzerland that is 100m underground. It is a particle accelerator where two beams of subatomic particles called ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/2008/08/14/brave-new-world-of-physics/ This article first appeared in Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears online magazine August 1, 2008. The article has been modified to include middle school math and science examples. All versions of this article are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Over the last few years, blogs have evolved into an exciting ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/2008/08/05/teacher-tools-that-integrate-technology-educational-blogging-middle-school-version/ Middle schoolers may not easily see the connection between data analysis problems invented for the classroom and math problems encountered in their daily lives. You will spark their interest in data analysis by showing them its value in finding solutions to real problems in many settings — from buying a ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/2008/08/04/give-us-our-daily-math/ If you want to "hook" your class on math right from the start, you may want to consider one of these real-world projects. Students deal with real data in these investigations—collecting, presenting, and analyzing their findings. As they work on the NCTM Data Analysis and Probability Standard, they apply school ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/2008/08/01/math-starters-projects-to-begin-the-year/ Sometimes geoboards are left on the shelf because we don’t know what to do with them. They can be powerful tools for students to study, length, area and perimeter. (But remember to be careful with the perimeter part because the length of one unit is only measured on the horizontal ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/2008/07/30/geoboard-geometry/ The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized the study of astronomy since its launch in 1990 and has sent a steady stream of striking images of space back to Earth from its orbit. It has: Precisely measured the age of the universe Found evidence of dark energy Took images of distant galaxies ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/2008/07/28/whats-happening-with-hubble/ Factors and their multiples are so important to students’ work with fractions and number theory. These concepts come under the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Number and Operations Standard for the middle grades. The resources here are all hands-on, if only virtually. Important to their success is the ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/2008/07/28/factors/