Science teachers

Welcome to the Global 2013 STEMx Education Conference, the world's first massively open online conference for educators focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and more. The conference will be held over the course of three days, September 19-21, 2013, and will be free to attend! STEMxCon will be a highly inclusive event that will engage students and educators around the globe and will encourage primary, secondary, and tertiary (K-16) educators around the world to share and learn about innovative approaches to STEMx learning and teaching. The call for presentations has been issued. Register as a member of this conference network to be kept informed! See the conference information and welcome HERE and the menu links to the left and at the top of each page.

A contest for kids -- design e helicopter!

"Recreating extinct species using DNA may become feasible, but it won't resolve our fraught relationship with our environment, warns writer Frank Swain"

"Researchers have ruled out climate change as the cause of extinction of most of Australia's giant animals, including giant kangaroos, three metre-tall flightless birds and the Tasmanian tiger, around 50,000 years ago."

"In this edition of HowStuffWorks, we will enter the tiny world of light microscopes and examine the various technologies that let them expose what is otherwise undetectable to the human eye."

"The Melbourne Teach Meet group met on Saturday 22nd June 2013 with many new faces and presenters. This report is a synthesis of some different things that were shared to the social media stream."

"The Tweets from today's meet tell a wonderful story. So many thanks are due to Simon (@aus-teach) for all his preparation as host of an amazing event and to Scienceworks for opening their doors to us. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and just as many new ones."

"This Sunday night, 23 June 2013, at precisely 9.33pm AEST, the full moon becomes a "supermoon" - an especially bright full moon."

"Revision video for GCSE Science, how to measure the distribution of living things, using random sampling with a quadrat and sampling along a transect."

"Andrew Vanden Heuvel has a little too much fun looking at mirrors with his Google Glass."

"Pittsburgh-based visual artist Nickolay Lamm, who blogs at UK discount site MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, worked with a computational geneticist to illustrate three ways that humans' physical appearances might change to better suit their environments over the next 100,000 years. However, many of these assumptions don't rely on evolution, but rather zygotic genome engineering technology. Scientists in the future might be able to manipulate human features prior to birth."