More than 1,522 peer-reviewed educational resources were recently added to the BiosciEdNet (BEN) portal, bringing the total number of items to 8,277. Educators will find a variety of new and effective teaching resources, including lessons, laboratory exercises, journals, multimedia, and online interactive pages. The twenty newest resources are posted here. Two of our most […]

“Last month I used the video Plate Tectonics: An Introduction  as a reinforcement after learning about Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift,” reports Michelle Lane of The Roeper School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.  “Then we used the interactive map at Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes  as part of a small group thinking/ problem-solving activity. The students […]

Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists describes the working lives of penguin biologists, glaciologists, cosmologists, geologists, and marine scientists working in Antarctica and the Arctic. It is a new feature on the website of […]

Teachers’ Domain has added 100 new resources mostly adapted from source material in the NSDL. The new resources update their Life and Physical Sciences collections as part of the site’s NSDL Pathways grant. Accompanying the resources are 10 new lesson plans. WGBH selected and developed these materials with the assistance of the curriculum development […]

Engineering education sometimes means learning from mistakes. In the case of the Minneapolis bridge, engineers must discover clues to its collapse and prevent similar disasters. The Engineering Pathway has related engineering resources on bridge failures, safety and design, include a presentation on the Cooper River Bridge by Anthony Ingraffea of Cornell University and an […]