Three cycles essential to life are the subjects of new science publications on the NSDL Middle School Portal . Under the series title What Goes Around Comes Around, the publications provide resources for teaching units on the Carbon, Water, and Nitrogen cycles. Along with coverage of the naturally occurring cycles, the author, Mary LeFever, stresses […]

Physics is a way of seeing the universe. How can physics teachers encourage students to experience physics in that way, instead of as a series of unrelated experiments and lectures? Many teachers believe that the answer is a method called Modeling. ComPADRE , the NSDL pathway for physics, has started a wiki that […]

NIST’s FiPy software, available on MatForge, models the “superfill” (superconformal electrodeposition) process.
The NSDL Materials Digital Library (MatDL.org) Pathway started MatForge to provide an online work space where scientists can collaborate. MatDL intends to use the results of those collaborations as library resources, says Principal Investigator Laura Bartolo. MatForge also gives materials scientists […]

NSDL and its Biological Sciences Pathway BiosciEdNet (BEN). share a problem. “I am always meeting people who say, ‘It’s too bad there isn’t a website that offers peer reviewed biological material for teaching,’” says Terry McGuire, associate professor of genetics at Rutgers University. In fact, BEN and NSDL offer thousands of these sources.
Terry McGuire […]

The NSDL Middle School Portal , an online resource for math and science teachers, has added a free, easy-to-use registration feature to its web site. Teachers can sign up for instant notification as new publications “go live.” Teachers are invited to register for announcements of all new publications or just for those in their field […]