Science teachers

A lesson about every single element on the periodic table

Wonderful images and stories about science

WMHT Online Lesson on Learning Evolution: Activity 1: Darwin's Great Voyage of Discovery Activity 2: Observations Lead to a Theory

Students play the role of birds, go out on the school lawn, and pick up toothpick "stick worms" which have been previously scattered on the lawn in equal numbers of green-stained and unstained. "Birds" are chased away before the "worm population" drops too low. Back in the classroom, the number of green and non-green "worms" are compared individually and for the whole class. Discussion relates the experience to the elements of natural selection. As presented here, it does not lend itself to demonstrating the effects of selection over multiple generations.

Sample questions

Many resources for teaching nuclear energy, including some games.

Very cool blog by a NM math and science teacher.

Key concepts of genetics explained through use of animations, images, video interviews and other interactive tools

animated primer of 75 experiments that made genetics. from cold spring harbor lab.

Great short video to explain the jump from the Bohr model to the QM model

Self-guided presentation about electricity with slides, web exploration, activities and more.

"Professor Tim Entwisle, Royal Botanic Gardens director, will release a book Sprinter and Sprummer: Australia's changing seasons in September, that will argue there should be five seasons and these should include two springs."

Spring starts on the first day of September, right? Not if Dr Tim Entwisle, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne and the author of 'Sprinter and Sprummer', has anything to do with it. Here he argues we should scrap the European approach and adopt a five season model.