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Lesson Plans: Fossils & EQ Volcanoes lessons on PNNL Website
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The Office of Science and Engineering Education at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is excited to announce that the Fossils lessons and the Earthquakes/Volcanoes lessons are all live on the PNNL website now. The lesson enhancements are aligned with the National Science Education Standards and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements to fill gaps in the existing curricular materials
These wonderful additions to the STC Rocks & Minerals (Earth Materials for FOSS) and STC Land & Water (Earth Changes for FOSS) units have been worked on by the incredible elementary teachers engaged in the DOE/ACTS program called Science Alive over the last three years. After extensive editing, field testing, and presenting to several audiences, they are ready to be used by teachers across the country. Please send this email out to anyone you think might be able to use these and enjoy! http://science-ed.pnl.gov/teachers/lessons.stm For more information, please contact Karen Wieda and kj.wieda@pnl.gov or Peggy Willcuts at Pwillcuts@wwps.org
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Posted by rick on Thursday, March 27 @ 20:15:05 MDT (1030 reads)
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Lesson Plans: Robert Krampf's Experiment of the Week
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This Week's Experiment - #400 Rock Candy
It is hard to believe that this is my 400th experiment. The weeks
surely have flown by. I hope you have enjoyed them as much as I have.
This week I have been growing sugar crystals. The table and kitchen
counter in my hotel room are covered with containers of sugar crystals. Most
of the recipes I found require you to wait a week or more for the crystals to
grow. Now, I feel like I know you well enough to say that some of you are
not that patient. That is why I looked for a way to grow crystals much faster.
To grow some edible crystals, you will need:
1 cup of water
4 cups of sugar
a cooking pot
one or more plastic containers
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Posted by rick on Tuesday, November 09 @ 21:19:40 MST (4228 reads)
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Lesson Plans: Free Materials
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Three new state-of-the-art curriculum supplements on alcohol, human communication, and sleep are available from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Teachers may visit http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements to
request copies of the new supplements or earlier installments in the series. This popular, K-12 inquiry-based series is available for free. The National Institutes of Health is distributing the supplements to promote inquiry-based, interdisciplinary learning and to encourage students’ interest in science. New supplements include:
* Sleep, Sleep Disorders, and Biological Rhythms (high school)
* How Your Brain Understands What Your Ear Hears (middle school)
* Understanding Alcohol: Investigations into Biology and Behavior (middle school)
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Thinking about Charlie, Frances and Ivan?
Order the Hurricane Strike CD
The resource is a CD-based game and instructional tool called "Hurricane Strike" which was created by and available through FEMA. Hurricane Strike is designed to educate upper elementary and middle grades students about how to prepare for hurricane events and there is also excellent science content (aligned with NSES) contained in the games/lessons.
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Posted by rick on Monday, September 13 @ 14:39:22 MDT (1377 reads)
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Lesson Plans: Registration Now Open for Extreme 2004 Deep-Sea Program!
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DIVE IN TO "EXTREME 2004: EXPEDITION TO THE DEEP FRONTIER"! -- Teacher registration for this award-winning program is now open at http://www.ocean.udel.edu/expeditions
From November 30 – December 20, 2004, University of Delaware marine scientists will lead "Extreme 2004: Expedition to the Deep Frontier," a National Science Foundation expedition to hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean, and middle- and high-school classrooms in the United States and around the world are invited to join them via a virtual field trip to the ocean floor!
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Posted by rick on Monday, August 16 @ 13:49:21 MDT (1502 reads)
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Lesson Plans: Fun with physics on 1000 free pages
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The free physics text available on http://www.motionmountain.net (so far, the 21 MB file only)has been reworked. Many improvements have been introduced throughout this 15th version of the text, which remains surprising and thought-provoking on every one of its over 1000 pages. There are many new figures, an explanation of the indeterminacy relation of thermodynamics, a new puzzle on the way to catch bananas, the fundaments of dislocations, the reason that mornings are quiet and evenings are not, the method used by whales to communicate below water, and the story on how to swim through empty, but curved space-time. The explanation of the microscope and the telescope, the addition of accelerations in special relativity, and the fundaments of topology and Lie groups have been included. There are now over 1300 problems, 600 solutions, 300 figures and 80 tables.
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Posted by rick on Tuesday, April 06 @ 08:27:17 MDT (1735 reads)
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