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Sci-Q : Science Channel
Expand your Science IQ every Sunday night with leading theoretical physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku. Dr. Kaku brings a unique branded personality exclusively to Science Channel — asking big questions like, "Why predict the future, when we can create it?" Addressing subjects from string theory to the human brain, Dr. Kaku takes us all on a journey — every Sunday night from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
DLESE Teaching Boxes
Teaching boxes are classroom-ready instructional units created by collaboration between teachers, scientists, and designers. Each box helps to bridge the gap between educational resources and how to implement them in the classroom. The Teaching Boxes contain materials that model scientific inquiry, allowing teachers to build classroom experiences around data collection and analysis from multiple lines of evidence, and engaging students in the process of science. - focusing on gathering and analyzing scientific evidence. All educators may use DLESE Teaching Boxes free of charge.
Tenets of Democracy>Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Critical thinking is thinking that proceeds on the basis of careful evaluation of premises and evidence and comes to conclusions as objectively as possible through the consideration of all pertinent factors and the use of valid procedures from logic (Carter, 1973)
Doing What Works - How to Organize Your Teaching - Essential Concepts
A practice guide titled Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning was developed by an expert panel convened by the Institute of Education Sciences. It offers a set of seven research-based recommendations. A summary of the research evidence and a level-of-evidence rating are provided for each recommendation. The seven recommendations in the guide have been synthesized to result in the four recommended practices on this website. This Practice Guide is the foundation for all the Doing What Works content on how to organize your teaching.
Stanford Engineering Everywhere
For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world.
Free PD Resources for Teachers: Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook Directory
Welcome to the most complete interactive directory of K-12 PD products and services. Whether you're looking for yourself, or an entire school district, the Teacher Professional Development Directory can help you identify accredited programs, supplemental materials, software, workshops, and more to help you meet your continuing education needs.
Alternative Research Assisgnments
Research papers are a common reason for students to use the library and research tools. However, alternative assignments will also encourage students to utilize knowledge-based resources, think critically, and acquire research knowledge
Creating Successful Research Skills Assignments
Many students never develop good research skills during their years at Penn. These students are often unaware of research tools or don't understand the expectations
SEED | Home
Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development
Connecting experts to youth and youth to one another, worldwide
genome.gov | Educational Resources
Educational materials about genetics and genomics for students, teachers and the general public
The Smithsonian Joins Flickr: The Commons - Creative Commons
The Smithsonian has joined the Library of Congress, the Powerhouse Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum in releasing numerous (over 850 from the Smithsonian alone) photos from their archives online - free of copyright restrictions - to The Commons on Flickr.
Calisphere - A World of Digital Resources
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts
Digital Image Resources on the Deep Web - ReadWriteWeb
visual resources available on the web. The deep web. These images won't show up in search engines' image searches
Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders
Amateur astronomy is now within the reach of anyone
The National Academy of Sciences: Resources for Teachers
Bring the latest in science and policy to your classroom! Use this site to explore exciting scientific "hot topics" on the cutting edge of the environmental and life sciences. These classroom materials help you challenge students to reach beyond the basics. For most products, FREE class sets are available upon request.
Report Briefs and Special Products - Earth & Life Studies
DELS report briefs offer a short summary of selected reports, written for general audiences. Available topics include stem cells, climate change, ocean exploration, polar biology, and forensics, among many other topics. Educators, public policy officials, advocacy groups, and other interested publics are encouraged to link to these and to download and distribute them.
The Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics - 2006-07 Colloquium Series
The Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics
2006-07 Colloquium Series - abstracts, videos, slides
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The Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics
2006-07 Colloquium Series
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