Polar News and Notes Education

The National Science Teachers Association in partnership with the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) are showcasing the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears magazine in the next free web seminar in the NSDL series:
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Series
Integrating Science and Literacy for the K-5 Classroom
Seminar 1: Polar Geography
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
6:30pm-8:00pm Eastern Time

NSTA Web Seminars […]

The U.S. Department of Education’s Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative has opened registration for its free summer workshops. The workshops will be held across the country starting June 18 and will target specific grade levels and content areas. Workshops for summer 2008 include:

Denver, Colorado (United States Mint) - June 18-19, 2008
Nashua, New Hampshire (Federal Aviation Administration) - June […]

A new month brings a new issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine! The online magazine is written for elementary teachers to help develop their content knowledge of the polar regions and use best practices in integrating science and literacy instruction. Our second issue is called “Polar Patterns: Day, Night, and Seasons” and […]

Three of the Web Seminars scheduled by the National Science Teachers Association in May will offer teachers at all grade levels an opportunity to enrich their teaching about the polar regions. Each seminar is presented at 6:30 p.m. on its scheduled date and lasts for 90 minutes. Participation is free.
Presenters for the two-part seminars on […]

April is National Poetry Month – a perfect time to incorporate this engaging and enjoyable form of literature into your science classroom! We’ve suggested science poetry before, including writing diamante poems after viewing webcam images of polar animals and locations and “Where I’m From” poems. Haiku and acrostic poems are also popular in elementary school […]