The new Polar Sciences Collection from Teachers’ Domain includes 20 new resources, lesson plans, and student activities funded by NSF as an education activity of the International Polar Year. Teachers’ Domain has also catalogued other resources already on the site that complement the Polar Collection. Nearly all the new resources are available in the Open […]
Archive for January, 2008
Teachers’ Domain Launches Polar Sciences Collection
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 8:16 pm
Written by: Brad Edmondson
New Shodor Tool Aims to Boost Test Scores
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 11:29 am
Written by: Brad Edmondson
The Shodor Education Foundation and the Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) have released a new set of tools to help teachers and students use a more dynamic approach to assess student achievement in math skills. The Interactivate Assessment Toolkit includes more than 50 Explorers, Games, and Quizzes that allow students to tailor their […]
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eLucy: Connected to the Web Bone
Friday, January 11th, 2008 11:59 am
Written by: Brad Edmondson
The team that made the popular eSkeletons project has launched eLucy, a new site that supports Lucy’s American tour. “Lucy” is a partial skeleton of a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis. Evolutionary biologists consider the bones among the most important clues to the origins of the human race. Lucy almost certainly walked upright and […]
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Posted in Topics: General
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