While waiting in a doctor’s office, I had an interesting conversation with a remedial math teacher.  He feels strongly that students must master the basics by 3rd grade.  Working with flash cards is not the most exciting thing to do. If you can disguise drill as a game it becomes more interesting.  I did some […]

Recently, I have been exploring the use of social software to support teaching.  One example of this is the prettygoodphysics wiki. The wiki is maintained by Paul Lulai.  In correspondence with me, Paul said:  “Please invite as many others as possible to use the site.  I’d like to make sure it is known that while I help […]

At the Monday meeting of the Physics and Physical Sciences Group in TappedIn, we had requests for web sites suitable for middle school students. Here are some of the sites we viewed.
The Physics Front.org K-12 resources http://www.compadre.org/precollege/static/topic.cfm?course=1
Science Games.org
http://www.scigames.org/
Science Teaching Tips
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ti/podcasts/index.php
Exploratorium Snacks
http://exploratorium.edu/snacks/
Physics and Everyday Thinking
http://petproject.sdsu.edu/
Sciencegeekgirl
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/sciencegeekgirl/
Cool Stuff from Arbor Scientific
http://www.arborsci.com/
Pretty Good Physics Wiki
 http://prettygoodphysics.wikispaces.com/
Discover Science, Technology and the […]

Several televsion stations have developed science portals. The portals have information for both faculty and students. Here are some examples.
KNME developed a Science Central web portal that promotes all KNME Science Central events and outreach activities.
http://www.knme.org/sciencecentral/
WGBH Boston
http://www.wgbh.org/kids/parents/eds
 BBC Schools
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
Public TV Canada
http://www.sd61.bc.ca/learnres/Edu/TV.html

Yesterday I had the pleasure of demonstrating some web resources, via TappedIn for several elementary school teachers. Some of them expressed interest in science materials for their class rooms which have both English and Spanish speaking students. Here are some sites of interest.
Kids Science News Network
http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/home.html
Science News for Kids
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/pages/about.asp
Paso Partners (K-3)
http://www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/senses/
National Center for English Language […]

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of touring the Fermi National Lab. I then go thinking about all of the educational resources that reside on web sites at the national labs. Here I will reveal those locations.
Argonne National Lab
http://www.anl.gov/Careers/Education/rube/
Brookhaven National Lab
http://www.bnl.gov/education/
Fermi Lab
http://ed.fnal.gov/index.shtml
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
http://www.lbl.gov/Education/
Los Alamos National Lab
http://www.lanl.gov/source/orgs/cpo/education_programs/programs_partnerships.shtml
Oak Ridge National Lab
http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/education.shtml
Pacific Northwest National Lab
http://science-ed.pnl.gov/

While preparing for a talk on how technology can support new and cross-over physics teachers, I came across the TappedIn system. The purpose of TappedIn is to make it easy for educators to share materials and participate in professional development sessions. I urge you to check it out. http://tappedin.org/tappedin/
Last evening, I spent an interesting hour […]

This past Saturday, I had the pleasure of meeting with biology teachers who were on the Cornell campus for a Cornell Institute of Biology Teachers (CIBT) event. I share with you here that handout that I gave the attendees.
Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers
http://cibt.bio.cornell.edu/
Discovery Channel
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/category/scie1.html
 
Classroom Clipart
http://classroomclipart.com/Science.htm
 
About.com: Chemistry Science Clipart
http://chemistry.about.com/od/imagesclipartstructures/ig/Science-Clipart/
 
Coolclips
http://dir.coolclips.com/Science/Chemistry/
 
Clipart etc.
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/index.htm
Awesome Clipart for Educators
http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com/
Connotea is a free […]

Although I am the physics and astronomy librarian at Cornell, I do work with science teachers in all areas of science and at all grade levels. If one does a search in the K-12 portion of NSDL, one finds many web sites about the periodic table. It is possible to limit the search to a […]

2009 has been declared the International Year of Astronomy. Keep checking the page listed, as I am sure the resources section will continute to grow.
If you are looking for lesson plans to help celebrate the Year of Astronomy, NASA has a nice collection of materials broken down by grade level.
The Galileo Project also has some […]