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NARST: A Worldwide Organization for Improving Science Teaching and Learning Through Research. Since its inception in 1928, NARST has promoted research in science education and the communication of knowledge generated by the research. The ultimate goal of NARST is to help all learners achieve science literacy.

NSDL Science Literacy Strand Maps help teachers connect concepts, standards, and NSDL resources.

The Center for Science and the Schools (CSATS) facilitates mutually beneficial and sustainable relationships between K-12 schools and Penn State science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) researchers and outreach professionals, with the goal of helping to strengthen science and technology education.

Science, engineering, and technology permeate nearly every facet of modern life and hold the key to solving many of humanity's most pressing current and future challenges. The United States' position in the global economy is declining, in part because U.S.

Kids science, math, social studies, history, geography and other educational videos, lessons, quizzes and educational games for K-12 grade kids that make learning fun and interesting.

PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. We believe that our research-based approach- incorporating findings from prior research and our own testing- enables students to make connections between real-life phenomena and the underlying science, deepening their understanding and appreciation of the physical world.

Activity 5 from the ESSP Energy Workshop was derived from this. What is chemical potential energy? How is chemical potential energy used? How do the energy and power outputs of different types of fuel compare? People around the world use many different types of fuels as sources of energy. Many of these fuels are fossil fuels, like coal and oil. Other fuels include biomass (animal or plant material) and biogas. Biogas is mainly methane, which is manufactured from plant and animal wastes. In this Virtual Lab, you will simulate the combustion, or burning, of different fuels (wood, coal, oil, methane) and determine the heat produced by the particular fuel. You will also compare and make observations about the generator outputs of the particular fuels used.

Humans are thought to have mastered controlled fire in the middle of the Paleolithic era. Half a million years later, engineers Tadd Truscott and Dale Tree, of Brigham Young University, are trying to quantify it. Using high speed cameras and computer algorithms, they are reconstructing fire, digitally.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) flung an amazing little factoid out there this week that went largely unnoticed: In April, for the first time ever, natural gas-fired power plants put as much electricity on the U.S. power grid as coal-fired power plants.

Exploring developments in digital curation for teaching & learning.

These photos on Flickr are courtesy of Ed Bujak (aka "not Marty"). They are from the ESSP Energy Workshop at Penn State University (main campus) from July 8-13, 2012. Some notes from Ed Bujak: Please feel free to comment or leave notes on the specific photo(s)/video(s) in flickr. You can also add text tags to make searching easier for everyone. You can also add a threaded discussion on any photo/video. Most are geo-tagged, but if you know a location of a photo that is not geo-tagged please provide me an address or an intersection along with the photo "name/number."

The Radiation Science and Engineering Center (RSEC) was established to manage Penn State's comprehensive nuclear research facilities, including the Breazeale Nuclear Reactor, Gamma Irradiation Facility and Radioactive sources and Radiation measurement resources.

The main mission of the EMS Energy Institute is to conduct research for developing advanced sciences and technologies for conversion and utilization of energy resources and for energy-related environmental protection. An important part of our mission is to provide research training of graduate and undergraduate students and young professionals, and facilitate energy outreach to society at large.

Energy Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts for Energy Education presents energy concepts that, if understood and applied, will help individuals and communities make informed energy decisions. Development of the guide began at a workshop sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the fall of 2010.