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How science writers might use pinterest might be a great resource for our summer institute: it connects writing for the public, social media, writing as curating/

fascinating and detailed descriptions of how to improve writing about science, originally published in American Scientist in 1990

science learning and writing, discussion of darwin's field notebooks. 

NWP teacher consultant on why writing and science go together.

We use conceptual and empirical lenses to examine synergies between inquiry science and literacy teaching and learning of K-12 (kindergarten through high school) curriculum. We address two questions: (i) how can reading and writing be used as tools to support inquiry-based science, and (ii) how do reading and writing benefit when embedded in an inquiry-based science setting? After elaborating the theoretical and empirical support for integrated approaches, we discuss how to support their implementation in today's complicated curricular landscape.

a possible reading for our summer institute, this theoretical chemist explains why writing, using metaphors and teaching undergraduates improve his science.

for 7th to 12th grade students, perhaps some of your projects would like to incorporate opportunities for students to write for the public, such as in this challenge, or for other audiences

cool ideas for thinking about how, where, for whom and why we write/communicate about science

Can we grow a garden on Mars? would students like to research and write about this question? Maybe an idea or an idea stimulator for an intersections project?

This physics teacher gives a lecture from inside CERN's Hadron Collider wearing Google Glass. How cool is that? What would his students write about?!?

Most of the links seem to work, but the first one didn't.  I found a pdf version of it here:http://www.skrpartners.com/pdfs/The_truth_about_grit.pdf

blog post that raises questions about what is content in museums. probably a great read for intersections teams as a way to think/talk/write about their work together. (thanks Kim Douillard)

Description of a boat building project that has students constructing boats that will be launched into the pacific. Is there a possible writing component here?

This pod cast features Neal Stephenson (who will be a keynote at ASTC's fall conference) and Tim Wu discussing whether we are living in the future...

Help with harnessing the inner scientist in us all

I LOVE this piece. thanks for sharing it!

NYTimes story about Sylvia Todd, young maker with a following. "With her father, James Todd, filming her, Sylvia uses puppetry, theme music and her home as a laboratory to demonstrate how things work. She makes science fun, mostly by having fun herself."

"Bench Diaries" is a project in which a woman ties diaries to local park benches, tweets and instagrams their locations, and then waits to see what happens. I wonder what would happen if we tried this in science museums?

nice occassional blog by physics professor

This is a fun little video about predictions made by science fiction writers.