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Online, interactive, standards-based science curriculum www.science4us.com

Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) is an annual program dedicated to showing K-12 students the importance of computer science education.

The Skeptics Guide to the Universe is a weekly Science podcast produced by the New England Skeptical Society (NESS) in association with the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) : discussing the latest news and topics from the world of the paranormal, fringe science, and controversial claims from a scientific point of view.

This is a Prezi presentation created by a science teacher all about how she uses her blogs (and wow it looks impressive!) in her classes and other forms of technology to improve the student learning.

I think I'll be sharing this with my science department. Nice find, Katy!

Describes how a teacher with little technology experience used an interactive White Board to communicate and inspire her science class in a new way.

Throughout the ages of educational ideas and philosophies teachers have been big fans of having their students keep a journal. Journals are kept in language arts, foreign language classes, and I have seen them in science classes. Students don't particularly like doing them unless they enjoy writing. If given a choice between keeping a journal in their spiral notebook and keeping it online, I would wager that a majority of students in this digital age will prefer to keep it online. So why not give them the choice and tool of Penzu.

Science oriented flipped classroom

Really liked the link to this article to the infographic explanation of the Flipped Classroom.

Skeptoid is a weekly science podcast dedicated to furthering knowledge by blasting away the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture, and replacing them with way cooler reality. Each weekly episode focuses on a single phenomenon - an urban legend, a paranormal claim, alternative therapy, or something just plain stupid - that you've heard of, and that you probably believe in. Skeptoid attempts to expose the folly of belief in non-evidence based phenomena, and more importantly, explains the factual scientific reality. From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred, politically incorrect though that may be.

"Welcome to Forensic Science"

Since we are learning about Web 2.0, this article discussed science teaching with the use of social networks and communication tools. Mostly at a college level but I think it could apply to HS.

This article is about the state of Computer Science. It discusses what needs to be done in order for Computer Science be relevant in K-12.

Great article on using podcasts, from kindergarten through high school, to help with enrichment and review at home. Also the article discusses a switch in lecture and homework - do the lecture at home and front load or review the information and do the lab, experiment, work, activity during class time.

This article had some nice ideas about collaboration in the science classroom and the ideas may be applied to other disciplines perhaps

Create interactive and informative educational timelines in an extremely easy manner. Students will love being given the option of creating a timeline. Use Timerime for history, art, science, social studies or just about any subject in which they are required to understand the time frame at which events occurred.

Powerful ideas for all lovers of personal and political freedom - Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web, and was a Top 10 Finalist in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Podcast Awards. Topics range from politics to philosophy to science to economics to relationships to atheism - and how to achieve real freedom in your life today. Passionate, articulate, funny and irreverent, Freedomain Radio shines a bold light on old topics, and invents a few new ones to boot!

Science/High School/Biology - Grade 10/Student Activity Topic/Lesson Name: Cellular Respiration Overview and Purpose: To demonstrate an understanding of the Cellular Respiration Process using Glogster EDU

Takes some of the math out of Physical Science that can be a barrier for some students.

Gregory Ferenstein posts in Tech Crunch: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/11/a-huge-month-online-education-is-replacing-physical-colleges-at-a-crazy-fast-pace/ GREGORY FERENSTEIN Monday, February 11th, 2013 The rate at which online education is becoming part of the fabric of higher education is experiencing exponential growth. Over 1800 accredited Universities including M.I.T, Duke, UPenn, University of Wisconsin are actively embracing the new technologies. Many of the new courses are rigorous science based courses now being offered at vey low tuition rates. Studies are showing that test scores are rising in an online environment. A word of caution must be added. Initial experiments in education usually recruit the best and brightest on both sides of the equation. As these programs expand, close attention should be paid to the results.