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Recommended URLs from various NSTA listserv messages.

I don't remember exactly who sent them or where they came from.

     
                                       
                                       
 


Global Warming URLs

Excellent diagrams: CO2 graphs, temp. graphs, glacial breakup, etc.

NOW: educational materials; venn diagram for dealing with controversy

NAS Science Museum

Tree Ring Dating: Interactive

Climate Change, UK

Excellent diagrams (~ to Al Gore’s diagrams in “Inconvenient Truth”)

The Apollo Alliance (Energy Independence, new jobs, freedom from foreign oil)

Critique of Al Gore’s movie by climate scientists (long, scientists’ blog)

 

Attached is a form that somebody modified from the teacher who developed the idea and shared it on another listserve that I belong to.  This person also uses her list of topics and make the due dates every 2-3 weeks.  Her schedule is here:  http://www.middleschoolscience.com/ArticleAnalysisAssignmentSchedule.pdf

 


In reference to the weekly writing another member referred to, here is a template for a weekly "Reaction Paper".  Go to this site http://www.geosociety.org/educate/LessonPlans/s_gen.htm  and click on Reaction Paper.
Please visit GSA's Education Web site at www.geosociety.org/educate

I would recommend writing a grant application to http://www.smarterkids.org/, who provided me with about half the money I needed.

I've used this simulation with my honors middle school students:
http://genetics-education-partnership.mbt.washington.edu/download/toothpickfish.pdf

The first is not videos, it is pictures
 
This is a large list of chemistry resource sites.

 

 

 

  
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       

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