The NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) is a premier science education website filled with exceptional resources to help science teachers develop professionally and find lesson plans easily. It is free to register to use the site's Learning Center. Many of the resources are free, and there are articles from 4 nationally acclaimed science journals available. They include Science & Children (for K-6), Science Scope (for 6 - 8), The Science Teacher (for high …
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 7pm ET Presented by Jannita Demian For Educators Is “A” really just okay? Should we really be striving for “C+” students? Join us as we explore key principles of great teaching and on-line tools that will help transform learning in your classroom by allowing your students to communicate, collaborate, and create. Take it a step further by providing them an authentic audience and purpose to change their world by creating project …
TEAM: Sharing Animal Stories, a Service Learning Project - HS/LS Connection MEMBERS: Lynn Prosen, Sunny Richardson PROJECT SUMMARY: Storytelling is an ancient tradition for communicating information. The power of a story is just as powerful in the digital age, it has just changed media. Connecting different age groups, high school biology students in Texas wrote an animal story at the elementary level. These stories were shared with third grade students in New Jersey through synchronous …
Team: Backyard Almanac Members: Lynn Prosen PROJECT SUMMARY: A phenology is "nature's calendar" marking new growth, migrations, and changes that occur in the environment. The Backyard Almanac is a Wiki designed to record and report phenology information once a week with schools throughout the country. These records will be used to track the changes in spring, compare climates in different areas, and connect classrooms across the counrty. To date, there is an elementary school in …
TEAM: The Oilers MEMBERS: Kathy Moore & Lynn Prosen PROJECT SUMMARY: An Oily Mess - FL and NJ Connect About Oil Oil spills are a mess. The Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill in April 2010 was a huge environmental and economic disaster for the Gulf coast region. For those not on the Gulf, we only heard about what happened on the news. For elementary students in New Jersey, the problem is not personal, but for middle school students in Florida it is. Florida students have completed …