NSDL and its Biological Sciences Pathway BiosciEdNet (BEN). share a problem. “I am always meeting people who say, ‘It’s too bad there isn’t a website that offers peer reviewed biological material for teaching,’” says Terry McGuire, associate professor of genetics at Rutgers University. In fact, BEN and NSDL offer thousands of these sources.
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The NSDL Middle School Portal , an online resource for math and science teachers, has added a free, easy-to-use registration feature to its web site. Teachers can sign up for instant notification as new publications “go live.” Teachers are invited to register for announcements of all new publications or just for those in their field […]

From the TeachEngineering Digital Collection, part of NSDL’s Engineering Pathway, comes word of two fun weekend events for engineers in June. This weekend (June 14-16) is the 20th annual National Concrete Canoe Competition in Seattle, hosted by the Engineering School of the University of Washington. The UW-Madison Concrete Canoe Team and 21 other […]

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Teacher’s Domain, , the NSDL Pathway sponsored by WGBH-Boston that trains teachers and repackages popular public television programs for classroom use. But now you can keep a lot of it. Teacher’s Domain has opened a special collection of images, videos, and animations called […]

You may have heard that the Pirelli Foundation just gave an international award to Chemistry Comes Alive!, a collection of about 2,000 videos of chemistry experiments that is part of the ChemEdDL Pathways project. I recently showed the site to another eminent panel of judges — namely, several teen-aged boys — and based […]