Intersections

description of engineering and tinkering fair for kids run by ifixit

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?!?

A Blueprint: Maker Programs for Youth is just what it sounds like, directions for starting a maker program. It may have ideas that will be helpful to teams as they design their science-literacy projects.

Reacting to an interesting piece of research, this article looks at how museums might serve as an important context for developing critical thinking skills that will serve youth in academic work and life.

""Coupling practice with content gives the learning context, whereas practices alone are activities, and content alone is memorization," an executive summary of the standards says. "The integration of rigorous content and application reflects how science and engineering is practiced in the real world.""

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."

describes the i3 grant granted to the Exploratorium and SOnoma county schools for professional development to support the development of science lessons for elementary aged ELLs

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.

This is a call for crowdfunding "the think tank" a mobile cognitive science lab that will travel to HSs to teach students about cognitive science and help them design and carry out their own inquiries. might be a cool sample project for Intersections

A student voice rubric... might be of interest to Intersections projects focused on increasing student voice in informal spaces

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/

The researchers documented a prospective science teacher's struggle to make sense of an online content literacy course that attempted to strengthen her capabilities to combine skills-based instruction (reading) with concept-based instruction (science). S

A Ted Talk about telling stories about science, making science understandable and exciting to 13 year olds.

interactive graphic and short discussion of the phenomenon of men outperforming women in science in the US

Oklahoma Science Adventure plus PD opportunity. Maybe possible project idea

tools and resources to support ambitious science instruction

this is a resource that annotates science research for students and offers other activities (such as the opportunity to play with data from scientists' papers). THis might be a great resource for Intersections teams

discussion of the language of science, focusing on theory, law, and hypothesis

National Lab Day website