Jody Oliver's List: Courses: Science

cool science

MIT has a resource of 10,000 brilliant young people who represent the future of engineering and science — our students. They want to change the world, and are wiling to start by offering meaningful contributions to the national challenge facing K12 education. They also have access to some of the most sophisticated laboratory and experimental facilities in the world. As an initial test in the fall of 2011, the School of Engineering funded 38 student teams, at $1,000 each, to produce videos illustrating that the best spokespeople in the battle to engage young people in science and engineering are other young people — especially MIT students. Those videos, which are included in this site, told us that there might be some answers out there — but that we needed this to be bigger. We need to ask for a lot of help.

Physics To Go is an online monthly mini-magazine and a collection of more than 950 websites with physics images, activites, and info. You can view an archived version of our August 2, 2011 issue, Fractals below, or click to see our February 1, 2012 issue, Extrasolar planets.

great stuff on rubrics and assessment for hs biology

Study Jams is a Scholastic website designed to help elementary school students learn and review math and science information through songs and videos. To use Study Jams students search for a topic in the math or science category. Each Study Jam offers a short tutorial on that topic in the form of a video, slideshow, or song. When there is a song available Study Jams provides a karaoke format for kids to sing along if they like.

"BodyMaps is an interactive visual search tool that allows users to explore the human body in 3-D. With easy-to-use navigation, users can search multiple layers of the human anatomy, view systems and organs down to their smallest parts, and understand in detail how the human body works. "

Way cool and free movie from nodak.edu

Interactive Science Simulations
Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado."

Great free resources - be sure and download the Mind Bogglers booklets, free pdf to print for kids ... and adults!

"The Body Explained, with Cassius Bordelon, PhD, is a light-hearted video production that answers common questions about how the human body works. Segments generally run one minute and are designed to help capture students' attention and curiosity. Dr. Bordelon is an Associate Professor of Cell Biology at Baylor College of Medicine and an expert on anatomy."

Maybe the world would be a better place if this were the new world religion. http://www.integralscience.org/

RT @padgets: RT @ttyson2000: Awesome website for science teachers - virtual dissections. http://ow.ly/3Ir94 #edchat #scichat #ageduchat

Each element is a video!!

Over 2500 instructional video! - "Free Classroom of the World" - opensource designed. A must have resource for high school and college!