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Find Lessons for K-12 in earth science, physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, health/medicine, engineering, social sciences, technology, math/statistics, nature of science, careers. All lessons at ScienceNetLinks include: 1. Purpose (essential question explained) 2. Context (content knowledge and application to real world 3. Motivation (advance organizer serving as a entry event building on need to know) 4. Development (specific lesson plans and scaffolding) 5. Assessment (range of formative, summative, content specific, and 21st century) 6. Extensions ( next steps, scaffolding, and differentiation) 7. Related resources (useful for related investigation). -- @mjgormans

You sign up, ask your students to find some bugs, and mail them to us. We accept your application, schedule your session, and prepare the bugs for insertion into the electron microscope. When your session time arrives, we put the bug(s) into the microscope and set it up for your classroom. Then you and your students login over the web and control the microscope. We'll be there via chat to guide you and answer the kids' questions. The proposal was to participatein the Beckman Institute's Bugscope, http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu, a free educationaltechnology outreach project, whichenables kindergarten to 12th grade (K-12)and undergraduate students and teachers toremotely access and control the microscopein real time from their classroom computers. See also: http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0729sp_spore.shtml

K-12 FREE Opportunity: If your students investigate bugs, use a microscope, need an authentic purpose for research, I'd like to suggest partnering with Bugscope. You get to collaborate with expert scientists to explore bugs (i.e. looking at a bug's tongue). You would do this all via the internet. It looks amazing! Below is a response from them, with an attachment.  A news-release summarizes a history of Bugscope (http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0729sp_spore.shtml). Bugscope allows teachers everywhere to provide students with the opportunity to become microscopists themselves-the kids propose experiments, explore insect specimens at high-magnification, and discuss what they see with our scientists-all from a regular web browser over a standard broadband internet connection. You sign up, ask your students to find some bugs, and mail them to us. We accept your application, schedule your session, and prepare the bugs for insertion into the electron microscope. When your session time arrives, we put the bug(s) into the microscope and set it up for your classroom. Then you and your students login over the web and control the microscope. We'll be there via chat to guide you and answer the kids' questions. If you would like to see the response from one class who have done this, read Mrs. Krebs' blog post: http://krebs.edublogs.org/2011/09/04/bugscope-session/  If you need any help with this, just let me know. If you end up taking them up on this FREE collaboration, please let me know when/where so I can drop by. This looks fascinating! Kind regards,Tracy