Archive for April, 2009
Take Science Out of the Classroom
Take Science Out of the Classroom This summer, Science AdventuresTM summer camps are introducing an innovative new program lineup to inspire a love of science and the environment. Science Adventures programs’ newest camp, Powerful Planet, offers fun and exciting lessons that teach the importance of energy efficiency and the need to manage our natural resources, [...]
Rock Around the World
Rock Around the World Mars scientists are asking students from around the world to help them understand the red planet. Send in a rock collected by you or your students from your region of the world, and the Mars scientists will use a special tool, like the one on the rover, to tell you what [...]
Raise Awareness of Rules for Digital Properties
Raise Awareness of Rules for Digital Properties Your students interact with music, movies, software and other digital content daily. Do they understand the rules surrounding the appropriate use of these digital properties, and why these issues are relevant? The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content curriculum is a turnkey instructional program made available for free through [...]
Expose Students to Dickens’ Masterpieces
Expose Students to Dickens’ Masterpieces No one does Dickens like PBS’s MASTERPIECE, which has been airing lavish, magnificently acted works by Dickens for most of the four-decade history of the series. And no one offers teachers and reading groups better resources than MASTERPIECE—all free of charge and available online. The latest resource, Teaching Dickens: A [...]
Enhance Lessons with Multicultural Content
Enhance Lessons with Multicultural Content Created in partnership with Kansas State University (KSU), the Negro Leagues Baseball eMuseum features lesson plans and other materials, including photographs and videos, for secondary social studies teachers. The resources are intended to help teachers motivate students, through subjects like baseball, and enhance multicultural content for their classroom lessons. Scholars [...]
Celebrate National Poetry Month
Celebrate National Poetry Month Beginning April 1, Poets.org will send one new poem to your inbox each day to celebrate National Poetry Month. The poems have been selected from new books published in the spring. To receive Poem-A-Day emails, simply enter your email address in the online form at The Academy of American Poets Web [...]
ThinkQuest Competition Looking for Student Teams
Develop 21st Century Skills The ThinkQuest Narrative Competition 2009, sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation (OEF), is open to teams of students aged 9–19. The competition is designed to engage students in developing important 21st century skills, such as communication, creativity, teamwork and technology skills. Teams are invited to use OEF’s ThinkQuest Projects platform to [...]
Predict Technology’s Impact on Learning
Predict Technology’s Impact on Learning Seven high school students have the opportunity to earn $1,000 scholarships from Samsung Techwin America. The Thinking Ahead high school student scholarship program requires students to submit an essay of 500 words or less, telling about an advance in technology and how it will change learning in the future. Is [...]
Win a 21st Century Classroom
Win a 21st Century Classroom CDW Government, Inc. (CDW-G) and Discovery Education have announced the seventh annual “Win a Wireless Lab” sweepstakes. The program gives K–12 schools nationwide the opportunity to win a 21st-century classroom, complete with tablet or notebook computers, wireless cart, interactive whiteboard, student response system, projector, printer and document camera. CDW-G and [...]
Renew Support for Science Education
Renew Support for Science Education The American Honda Foundation (AHF) makes grants to K–12 schools, colleges, universities, trade schools and other youth-focused nonprofit organizations for programs that benefit youth and scientific education. Because the current economic crisis has dramatically impacted the nation’s nonprofits, AHF has modified its grant proposal range from $20,000 to $60,000 per [...]
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