CCJH Science

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Welcome to a Resource for Physics Teachers This site is designed to help physics teachers share their ideas. Many of us are the sole physics teacher in their school. It's nice to know there are others out there to help develop experiments and demonstrations.

A great site for looking up lesson ideas and current trends in science education. **To access archives, you need to be a member.

HS Science teacher learning how assessment, literacy and technology can serve student learning.

This looks like a blog the science crew might benefit from adding in RSS (and if you are on Twitter to follow on Twitter too).

Gives an idea on how to use Google Apps Template to create a digital science notebook.

NSTA agrees with incorporating technology skills into science education.

A wiki that provides options for delivering content, digital exploration, data collection, etc.

This site is from a book that I read about how to manage a classroom that is formated to have students self paced in mastering content.

I read a book this summer about this concept and am attempting to configure a way to "re-design" my instruction based on this model. I thought that I'd share just so you know what I'm up to this summer... :)

Take a picture of a tree & have it identified while adding to a Smithsonian database. You can also search for a particular leaf/tree.

I found this app for my iPhone, so I'm not sure there is a compatible app for Android or Blackberry, but it might be worth a look if you are interested.

"National Science Bowl - The National Department of Energy offers this unique experience." The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Bowl® is a nationwide academic competition that tests students' knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics. Middle and high school student teams from diverse backgrounds are comprised of four students, one alternate, and a teacher who serves as an advisor and coach. These teams face-off in a fast-paced question-and-answer format, being tested on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, energy, and math. A featured event at the National Finals for middle school students, the Electric Car Competition, invites students to design, build, and race battery-powered model cars. This competition tests the creative engineering skills of many of the brightest math and science students in the nation as they gain hands-on experience in the automotive design process and with electric battery technology.

As the world population continues to grow and become more connected than ever, The DuPont Challenge asks students to consider our most important challenges by researching and writing a 700-1,000-word science essay in one of the four categories: Together, we can feed the world. Together, we can build a secure energy future. Together, we can protect people and the environment. Together, we can be innovative anywhere. The first three categories reflect the global challenges on which DuPont as a company focuses its efforts. The fourth category opens up possibilities for students to address other important topics, using scientific research to solve issues that can range from medicine and health to mathematical computation to any science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topic that students are passionate about. For 7th-12th grades

Become Agents of Change! The Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge is the premier national environmental sustainability competition for grades K-12 students. Through project-based learning, students learn about science and conservation while creating solutions that impact their planet. Beginning August 13, 2013 through March 4, 2014, teams from across the country will be challenged to create sustainable, reproducible environmental improvements in their local communities.

"All students and educators participating in the challenge will have their name flown on the Exploration Flight Test-I mission as a member of the virtual crew. This mission will be unmanned and will launch in late 2014. So, kids can be a "virtual explorer." There are 4 challenges, age appropriate, to help design protective radiation protection for astronauts. We need to get students interest in space travel for a variety of reasons. This is a lovely real world project for students to join. "The goal of the Exploration Design Challenge is for students to research and design ways to protect astronauts from space radiation. NASA and Lockheed Martin are developing the Orion spacecraft that will carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit and on to an asteroid or Mars. Protecting astronauts from radiation on these distant travels is an important -- and very real -- problem that needs solving. NASA would like your help!"