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Wetlands Ecology and Management curriculum series now available!

These modules are intended for instructors to use teaching undergraduate natural resources courses in 2 and 4 year colleges. However, many instructors at the middle school and high school level have also found them to be quite useful. The curriculum is in PowerPoint format and can be modified. Further details about the series and those modules included can be found at this link.

Also available, an easy to view PDF file containing information about FREE materials and services. This file is accessible at www.ncsr.org/documents/NCSRAboutUsFINAL.2.pdf.

Examine Critical Minerals In AGI’s New EarthNote

Critical minerals are defined by their dollar value, availability of substitutes, and increasing demand. Green technologies such as wind turbines and electric cars, communications technologies such as computers and cell phones, and cutting-edge military systems all depend on critical minerals. Learn more in the new EarthNote.

Find out how Earth science issues influence your life with EarthNotes, summaries of timely information about geoscience issues. Reports on a wide range of topics are contributed by geoscientists. To read more EarthNotes, visit http://www.agiweb.org/environment/earthnotes/.

ASEE Releases New Edition of "ENGINEERING, GO FOR IT" Magazine

What do the blockbuster movie Avatar, high-performance sports gear, the Angry Birds phone app, and pollution-eating bacteria have in common? They are among a host of fascinating innovations developed by engineers and featured in the newest edition of the American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) Engineering, Go For It (eGFI)

magazine. The publication is available online. The kid-friendly magazine is part of ASEE's campaign to inspire more K-12 students, particularly young women and underrepresented minorities, to pursue engineering careers.

LearningMedia, LPB’s new educational website.

Now all resources for all age groups link off a single page at www.lpb.org/education. So if you are looking for electronic field trips, streaming videos, webinars, events, courses, GED, etc., you will find it there. Bookmark the page and keep watching because soon we will be providing you with a wonderful new resource!

NOAA has launched the social media photo sharing website "NOAA Photo Library's Photostream" on Flickr, the premier Internet photo sharing website. A selection of over 4,000 photos has been uploaded onto the NOAA Flickr website, a subset of the 47,000 public domain images presently on the NOAA Photo Library. The photos can be viewed in collections, sets, in slideshow format, and by using the Flickr search engine to search for imagery thematically. View the site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib and the NOAA Photo Library at http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ .

Dig Into the Core of STEM

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is the nation’s online library for education and research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It provides free math lessons and activities aligned with the Math Common Core Standards, as well as STEM-related blogs and other free teacher resources and lesson plan ideas. Targeted for K–12 teachers, higher-education professionals and librarians, NSDL also provides science literary maps and iTunes multimedia files. Please visit: http://www.nsdl.org/

Science Companion offers free lessons and a Virtual Field Trip

http://www.sciencecompanion.com

Go on a virtual tour of planetariums to see what the sky brings, together with a new activity on Sky and Weather from the latest edition of their Early Science Explorations

module. At the site you can download their Sky & Weather Virtual Field Trip! (Fair warning: this is a commercial curriculum developer, so there is some advertising between the virtual field trip and the lessons to support the students’ learning about stars, including our sun. Keep scrolling to the lessons which are at the end of the .pdf document!) Science Companion Virtual Field Trips are a "Science in Real Life" series from Science Companion, paring a hyperlinked PDF lesson from one of their modules with a place or current event. Science Companion is a Pre K-Grade 6 inquiry science curriculum created by the founding authors of Everyday Mathematics.

New physical science activities on the Hurricanes

The Hurricanes: Science and Society website (HSS; http://www.hurricanescience.org) is one of the most comprehensive Internet resources on hurricanes. The HSS team is excited to announce the availability of new, inquiry-based activities about wind in a hurricane, building a coastal home, and utilizing hurricane imagery. In addition, there is a new and updated list of hurricane links for educators. You are invited to explore these activities and other educational resources available on the HSS site. New content describing NASA aircraft reconnaissance, the hurricane forecast process, and hurricane research models has also been added to the website. To receive more information about the Hurricanes: Science and Society Project, please contact Holly Morin via email (hmorin@gso.uri.edu).

Data in the Classroom

Middle and high school teachers interested in using real scientific data in their teaching should visit the NOAA Ocean Data Education Project website. The website offers four learning modules covering El Niño (grades 6–8), Sea Level (grades 6–8), Water Quality (grades 6–8), and Ocean Acidification (grades 10–12). Each module contains five lessons at increasing levels of sophistication. In El Niño, for example, students move from learning how to access and interpret sea surface temperature data, to identifying and measuring changes in temperature over time, to exploring how these changes relate to physical and biological systems.

http://www.dataintheclassroom.org/

Scholastic is offering materials for use with Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax movie for grades 3-5 and 6-8. The LA Environmental Science Comprehensive Curriculum has a Lorax-themed activity (Unit 3 Activity 2) based on the book and original video. Using these standards–based lessons and worksheets, students can better understand what they can do to use and preserve natural resources like forests, water, and air. Read Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax or see the movie opening on March 2. Then visit www.scholastic.com/thelorax for lessons, printables, family activities, a writing contest, a student game, and the movie trailer!

STOP for Science! - A School-Wide Science Enrichment Program

"STOP for Science" is a simple and extensible building-wide science enrichment program aimed at raising questions about science topics chosen to capture student interest. Created through the combined efforts of an astrophysicist and an elementary school principal, "STOP for Science" combines displays of science topics accompanies by level-selected questions and extensive teacher resources to provide broad exposure to familiar yet intriguing science themes. This new product series is now available for educators at http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/stop/.

Interactive Earth Science Animations

The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) is a consortium of universities dedicated to the operation of science facilities for the acquisition, management and distribution of seismological data. IRIS offers resources for educators, including a series of interactive graphics, animations and videos on Earth Science fundamentals. Topics include hazards, plate tectonics, earth structure, earthquakes and volcanoes. Learn more.

The NASA Explorer Schools project is NASA's classroom-based gateway for middle school (grades 4-8) and high school (grades 9-12) classrooms. NES provides free teaching and learning resources that promote student engagement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. The project provides opportunities for teachers and students to participate in NASA's mission of research and discovery through inquiry-based experiences directly related to the work of NASA scientists and engineers.

All participants must be U.S. citizens. Each must be an administrator, aide, curriculum specialist, educator, guidance counselor, media specialist, resource teacher or student teacher in a state- or nationally accredited K-12 education institution in the United States or a U.S territory. For more information and to schedule an orientation session, visit their website.

Interested on Climate Change?

Here is a newsletter for you and your students.

If you'd like to receive the latest news from the world of climate change and climate research at NASA, sign up at the link below. The second monthly newsletter from NASA's Global Climate Change web site goes out this week. http://climate.nasa.gov/ccNewsletter/ The Educational Materials section of NASA's Web site offers classroom activities, educator guides, posters and other types of resources that are available for use in the classroom. Materials are listed by type, grade level and subject. The following items are now available for downloading.

NSF Offers Online Climate Change Resources

Earth science teachers and students often examine the connections between two related topics: energy and climate. For those wishing to take a closer look at climate change, the National Science Foundation (NSF) offers a useful web site. Go to the website to find an NSF report summarizing the current state of knowledge about climate change. The succinct format is enhanced with slideshows and videos.

Gr 7-10 New Resources @ WGBH Teachers' Domain Inspire your students to take the National STEM Video Game Challenge! Make the connection between literacy, math, and a cool career in video game design with this new self-paced student lesson, Math and Videogames, for grades 7--10. The lesson is one of many STEM career resources available on Teachers' Domain.

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