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"Earth's Hope is the theme of the EARCOS Global Issues Network Conference to be held in Beijing April 4, 5 & 6 at Western Academy of Beijing. The Global Issues Network is based on the ideas in Jean Francois Rischard's book High Noon "Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them." Rischard identifies 20 urgent global problems and encourages the formation of small groups around the world to help solve them. This echoes Margaret Mead's famous quotation, "Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Global Issues Groups have been formed in many international schools throughout the world empowering international school students to help solve urgent global problems. We in EARCOS will now have the opportunity to do the same to create change in Asia. We invite all EARCOS schools to send a group(2-6) of students to this life changing event. "

Amazing Alex: Physics App from the Creators of Angry Birds 09/20/2012 by SAM in EDUCATIONAL APPS with 0 COMMENTS If you've been using Angry Birds to teach physics and carefully showing kids how important the trajectory launch path is, then this educational app is for you! Rovio Entertainment have released a new Physics app 'Amazing Alex ', to get you more addicted than ever. The educational app is a new physics-based puzzle game. The game centers around whiz kid Alex and his incredible creations, inviting fans to step into Alex's world of creative chain reactions: solving puzzles, designing their own levels, and sharing their creativity with the world.

"The BBC World Service's weekly look at new developments in science from around the world."

of the exciting research conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and its collaborators around the world, and to highlight the incredible diversity of wildlife that exists in a range of habitats across the globe.

Oxfam Education offers a huge range of ideas, resources and support for developing the global dimension in the classroom and the whole school. All of the resources here support Education for Global Citizenship - education that helps pupils understand their world and make a positive difference init.

MapStory empowers a global community to organize knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. With MapStory, people of all kinds turn into Storytellers who can create, share, and collaborate on MapStories and ultimately improve our understanding of global dynamics, worldwide, over the course of history.

"Chemistry If you have an interest in anything in the world, then you have an interest in chemistry because everything you hear, see, taste, smell and touch involves chemistry and chemicals. Our ability to understand the chemical make-up of things and chemical reactions has led to everything from modern food and drugs to plastics and computers. "

Investigate the world of atoms and molecules through hands-on inquiry-based activities and molecular model animations.

Martin Burrett 08 Aug 11 11:57:09A great site from the Open University. See evolution in action... slowly, with snails from across the world. You can submit your own data. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

The theme, which will last three years, is intended to serve as a focus for the IB and IB World Schools. They aim to capture the excellent initiatives that are already underway in many schools and encourage and inspire new activities, in and out of the classroom, around the following topics: Global poverty Education for all Peace and conflict Global infectious diseases Digital divide: uneven access to information and communication technologies Disasters and emergencies

" Our Choice will change the way we read books. And quite possibly change the world. In this interactive app, Al Gore surveys the causes of global warming and presents groundbreaking insights and solutions already under study and underway that can help stop the unfolding disaster of global warming. Our Choice melds the vice president's narrative with photography, interactive graphics, animations, and more than an hour of engrossing documentary footage. A new, groundbreaking multi-touch interface allows you to experience that content seamlessly. Pick up and explore anything you see in the book; zoom out to the visual table of contents and quickly browse though the chapters; reach in and explore data-rich interactive graphics. "

"Introducing the 15 Google Science Fair finalists Our panel of judges has selected the top 5 projects in each age category from over 7,500 entries from around the world. Click "View the Finalists!" to see which projects have advanced to the final round of judging and to learn more about when the winners will be announced. "

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" * Play with thousands of models. * Create your own models with all new applications. * Share your creations with your friends or the whole world. User name Password or register "

A collection of maths and science rap videos aimed at secondary topics.

" Browse Our Free and Open Textbooks We are serious about publishing great textbooks. Each of our books meets the same rigorous standards - written by expert authors, peer-reviewed, and professionally edited and developed - before reaching your desk. Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know, and we'll get back to you with our plans to publish in the areas you teach. "

"7 Online Science Projects for All Grade Levels"