nsdl workshops's List: Web Seminar: Bioscience Issues

ActionBioscience.org is a non-commercial, educational web site created to promote bioscience literacy by examining issues that will:

* motivate the public to play an active role in bioscience education
* show how developments in bioscience research can affect everyone
* promote an understanding of biogeography and the biodiversity of life
* engage the public to reflect on the relationship between human activity and the natural course of evolution
* promote global ecological awareness
* advance formal and informal bioscience education
* encourage students to pursue studies in the biosciences

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Articles, lessons, standard correlations and more from ActionBioscience

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Correlating national standards to Actionbioscience resources: a handy chart that lists the standards and links to resources associated with each of those standards

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Example article and additional educational resources found in Actionbioscience. This one is on penguins and their changing habitat

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"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. "

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Examples of how to assess students through the use of current issues in science

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"Teaching Internet Comprehension to Adolescents -
Developing Internet Comprehension Strategies among Poor, Adolescent Students at Risk to Become Dropouts"

Internet literacy

"With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information that is contained there, students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age.

To help you get started with this process with your students, I have designed a series of evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels. The elementary, middle, and secondary surveys have been re-designed and updated in February of 2009. The virtual tour, blog, podcast, and teacher site evaluations have been added since 2005 and updated in 2009."

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"This web site was developed to help Internet users evaluate Internet web pages. "

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"Evaluate Web Pages
The following tutorial and exercises will help you to evaluate the quality of information you find on the Web."

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Case-based learning in Biology for community colleges

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Case studies from McGraw Hill

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Case studies pertaining to specific regional issues

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"Welcome to the PBL Clearinghouse, a collection of problems and articles to assist educators in using problem-based learning. The problems and articles are peer reviewed by PBL experts in the disciplinary content areas. Teaching notes and supplemental materials accompany each problem, providing insights and strategies that are innovative and classroom-tested. Access to the Clearinghouse collection is limited to educators who register via an online application, but is free and carries no obligation. "

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"Harness the power of the Internet... wisely. WISE is a simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Our curriculum projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. A web browser is all they need to take notes, discuss theories, and organize their arguments... they can even work from home! Our Teacher Area lets you explore new projects and grade your students' work on the Web. Best of all, everything in WISE is completely free."

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You can copy text from the web or review documents and use this tool to determine the reading level of a given piece of text

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podcast content recommended by Oksana

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"Teacher's Guides have been developed at SeaWorld and Busch Gardens to help you teach your students - in an active, hands-on way - about how people interact with the environment and how we can best care for Earth's resources.

Each guide includes goals and objectives, information, vocabulary, a bibliography, and classroom activities. Activities strive to integrate science, mathematics, geography, art, and language."