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Recently launched science and technology news website from Discovery Communications. It features breaking news and in-depth articles related to the Earth, Space, Tech, Animals, Dinosaurs, Archaeology, Human and History.

Check out these free resources including virtual labs on the 3M/Discovery Education Science of Everyday Life http://t.co/R774SpyV

Summer 2010 webinars

What an appropriate time to celebrate the NSTA Conference with a tribute to an awesome collection of STEM resources! For those not familiar with STEM education, imagine the power in combining Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math into a program that brings cross curricular understanding with real world application. Those familiar with Daniel Pink even understand the importance of a fine arts contribution to STEM. Now combine the outstanding and first rate resources of Siemens Corporation and Discovery Education. Welcome to a posting that highlights a great web site based on STEM, PBL, and 21st Century education! Don't miss any part of this posting, including the conclusion which includes what may be the best free professional development opportunity for STEM educators this summer! As always feel free to follow me on twitter at (@mjgormans) and I will be sure to follow you back and we can learn from one another! You are also invited to visit my 21centuryedtech Wiki! Please enjoy and share this post with others! Have a great week! - Mike

Feeling inspired by the "World is Just Awesome" commercials? View it here and then create your own "_____ is Just Awesome" video using these great resources from Discovery!!

The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is your chance to show off your smarts and demonstrate how science is at work in everyday life. Just create a short video and submit it online. You could win a bunch of great prizes, including $50,000 in U.S. Savings Bonds!

"a digital badging program that connects and rewards classes as they learn through discovery and collaboration. From the art world to the zoo, from underwater to outer space, from current problems to future solutions, students can explore their interests and make connections across subjects. "

Free education broswer for your iPad for flash-enabled K-12 content. View Starfall, Discovery, and more!

Conquering Technophobia Web 2.0 Explained: Teacher's Resource Guide. Discovery Education and CDWG collaboration for Web 2.0 for Teachers.

Resources for the Teacher, Parent and Students. Sponsors Intel Discovery Education

"An interactive educational tool, Curiosity in the Classroom provides materials on a variety of topics ranging from robotics to artificial intelligence, and includes in-class and at-home resources to encourage insightful conversation about life's most fascinating questions."

Curiosity in the Classroom Discovery Education and Intel have teamed up to create this site. This is a program designed to guide teachers and students on a journey through life's biggest questions.

"Discovery Education, Sanford Health and WebMD teamed up to create a new program called fit 4 the classroom, an extension of the fit initiative designed to educate, motivate, and inspire children of all ages to live a healthy lifestyle. You will find a series of elementary lesson plans with engaging activities and videos that can tie into your math, science and other subjects and demonstrate the importance of a balanced daily life."

"This K-6 program is designed to promote science literacy in elementary schools through free hands-on science activities and supporting videos. Access fun activities and enter to win a school-wide science assembly! "

Using the Volcano Explorer students choose the magma viscosity and gas content to create a virtual volcanic eruption. When students make their selections the Volcano Explorer provides a short explanation of how those settings will affect the shape of the volcano and its eruption.

What is it like to work as a paleontologist? In Activity 1, students listen to or read an interview with paleontologist Paul Sereno, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, to learn about his passion for science and his discovery of SuperCroc in sub-Saharan Africa. In Activity 2, students join a dig with paleontologist Mike Everhart to learn what happens when a scientist in the field suddenly discovers fossil remains. In the Closing Activity, students create a story or conduct an interview and present or record their work for an imaginary radio program.

Sounds like a great TV series

With a little inspiration from the Discovery Channel, Mr. Vasicek's fourth grade students made a music video.

Mathematics is a live science with new discoveries being made every day. The frontier of mathematics is an exciting place, where mathematicians experiment and play with creative and imaginative ideas. Many of these ideas are accessible to young children. Others (infinity is a good example) are ideas that have already piqued many children's curiosity, but their profound mathematical importance is not widely known or understood. The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together.

The features on this Web site enable educational communities to: * Browse primary sources that teachers have used with students. * Teach primary source-based learning experiences from the Teaching Materials Collection. * Design learning experiences using MyPortfolio. * Share discoveries with others through field-testing and publishing. * Use our professional development programs to uncover the breadth and depth of LOC.gov resources. * Learn through primary source-based online activities and samples of student projects. * Create digital documentaries using University of Virginia's Primary Access or make a handout for students.

If you love history, or just want to learn more about it, YouTube has exactly what you need. Always up to the challege of providing thorough, accurate information, YouTube delivers channels from leading names in historical studies, from The Smithsonian to the Discovery Channel. You're sure to find just the right information you need for your lecture, lesson plan, or perhaps just your personal viewing pleasure.