ASD Science Department

Hey I was just on hippocampus today and they have redesigned the website to include Khan Academy and Phets. The layout is also much more user-friendly. It is a really great resource for students. It has videos, simulations, lectures, and interactive problem solving for a variety of subjects.

Really cool look at various phenomena. Watch as it develops, speed it up, slow it down, zoom in or out...

cool virtual microscope link for the cells unit.

A Diigo group for science teachers -when joining groups, remember to adjust your alert setting so you don't get a too many emails (choose daily at a minimum, weekly is fine too)

Google is looking for the brightest young scientists from around the world to submit interesting, creative projects that are relevant to the world today.

Super impressive 3D human anatomy program that helps students understand the various systems.

We are one step closer to achieving my personal dream of owning a hoverboard from "Back to the Future 2" This is groundbreaking.  Quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field.

New to Wolfram is that you can now embed various demonstrations from their website.  To the right of this example is a line of code that you copy by placing your cursor inside the text box.  Copy (cmd + C) and paste the HTML code onto your site.   If you would like a demonstration of this please contact one of your TIF's for an explanation.

This is going to be an amazing tool! Use engaging videos to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube. Watch the video to learn how.

NOAA recently released a collection of more than 7,000 historical U.S. shoreline topographic images for viewing in Google Earth. NOAA's Historical Shoreline Survey Viewer could be used to show students how coastlines have changed over time. 

Very exciting - Wolfram organized by Common Core Standards. Science Standards to come shortly. Wolfram Education Portal, organized by course. In the portal you'll find a dynamic textbook, lesson plans, widgets, interactive Demonstrations, and more built by Wolfram education experts. You can take a look at the types of materials we offer below, but to get full access to all materials, you need to sign up for a free account.

A series of online workshops on assessment in math and science. I know some of us were wondering about where we could find models and examples of performance based assessment for science, and these videos have several.

this site seems to have a LOT of resources; Game based learning, tech integration, labs, etc, specifically for the sciences.  

An interesting genetics lesson plan

The Quest Learning and Assessment System uses an extensive knowledge bank of over 60,000 questions and answers covering Math, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Physical Science and Physics.

This is a really interesting page about alternate ways to teach science and math (not just science and math but those are the examples given). Check it out.

Here are lots of links from the pioneers of the flipped classroom to support it.

Looks like some good resources for kids. They are free online books with videos and examples of typical science topics organized by subject.

Good AP Bio resources including things to do after the AP test.

There are some good science simulations here that you can manipulate online now for free.