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Describes a mentoring program for middle school girls to encourage interest in math and science and engineering

Daily summary of the stories, articles, and resources for teaching K-12 science and math.

Grade 11 and 12 resources for the maths and science class for cellphones. Cooooooool

The NSDL was created by the National Science Foundation in 2000 to provide organized access to high quality online resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

This site has an extensive collection of science and maths resources and videos to use with secondary students. Free sign up required. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Free, Printable Math and ELA Worksheets for Teachers and Homeschool Families

A nice primary worksheet website with well made, downloadable resources. A huge amount of English, maths, science and other subject worksheets and answer keys to choose from. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Project based learning using all or any of the three online resources offers a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges.

"A consortium of education organizations will be developing an online repository of classroom videos to help new teachers learn from master instructors how to teach math and science topics in third through sixth grades. The video repository is part of a project funded by a $3 million grant from the United States Department of Education and includes participants from Stanford University and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), as well as the Teacher Performance Assessment Consortium (TPAC), which AACTE helps to operate."

An exhibit of Benoit Mandelbrot's fractal images on display at Bard Graduate Center in New York City

"An interesting group participation project for the Manchester Science Fair: growing sunflowers" Includes video on Fibonacci sequences in nature with the example of sunflowers

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An article examines the use of drawing in science learning, starting from the history of drawing in experimental science. Unfortunately the full text requires a subscription. Thinking of implications for math learning.

This site has a good collection of Maths, English, Science & Social Studies PDF worksheets and online interactive resources to use with your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

A wonderful cross curricular site with 100s of well designed resources for your English, Maths, ICT, Science and humanities classes. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Great of flash resources and games for English, maths science and more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Stimulating critical thinking using technology has the potential to create more in depth understanding of science and math content by students when engaged in learning activities which integrate in-class and on-line technology resources. Technology tools support stimulation of both inquiry-based and critical thinking skills by engaging students in exploring, thinking, reading, writing, researching, inventing, problem-solving, and experiencing the world outside their classroom. This is accomplished through learning content through the lens of video to multimedia to the internet (Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement, NCREL, 2005).

The use of web based technology is growing by leaps and bounds every day. These online tools are the new set of keys for opening your students' minds. The vast resources on the Internet are making the use traditional methods of teaching and learning obsolete in countless ways.

These management and technical issues include how to name the iPods, recharging , syncing, accessories, play-lists, transferring apps, iTunes account, and many more. Like all technology tools, classroom management is always an issue. Here are a few recommended " Dos" tailored for a classroom set of iPod Touches.

A great resource rich site that's been put together by a teacher. Find superb reasources for English, Maths, science, ICT and more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Collaborative network seeking to further female participation in STEM through maximization of public and private resources, also through the work of regional chapters