America’s Educational Progress
See information about progress in your state -- student achievement, high school graduation rates, and more.01.10.08
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Discusses No Child Left Behind, Priorities for 2008 During Remarks at National Press Club
Secretary Spellings delivered remarks on No Child Left Behind and the Administration's K-12 priorities for 2008 at the National Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon in Washington, D.C. Following are her prepared remarks.Spellings Discusses No Child Left Behind, Priorities for 2008
Secretary Spellings delivered remarks on No Child Left Behind and the Administration's K-12 priorities for 2008 at the National Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon in Washington, D.C.01.09.08
Teaching Resources: Sciences, Oceans, Hurston and More
Biology, chemistry, physics, energy use, nanotechnology, oceans, tides, and Zora Neale Hurston plays are topics of new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find.01.08.08
Apply Early for Federal Student Aid with the FAFSA
The start of the calendar year also marks the beginning of the college financial aid season with the release of the U.S. Department of Education's 2008-09 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The FAFSA is the qualifying form for all federal grants and loans as well as many state and private student aid programs.ED Seeks Nominations for American Stars of Teaching
ED is seeking nominations for its fifth annual American Stars of Teaching project, which recognizes exemplary teachers who raise student achievement, use innovative classroom strategies and make a difference in their students' lives, Secretary Spellings announced.Spellings Marks NCLB 6th Anniversary in Florida
Spellings testified before a joint committee session of Florida's Committee on K-12, Schools and Learning Council and the Committees on Education Innovation and Career Preparation, 21st Century Competitiveness, and Postsecondary Education.01.07.08
President Bush Discusses NCLB
"Fewer students are falling behind," President Bush said in Chicago, where he and Secretary Spellings discussed progress made since he signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law six years ago.New — Energized Learning
offers lessons to help students use the Home Energy Saver -- an online tool for identifying energy use and calculating potential savings in homes and other buildings. (Department of Energy)New — Zora Neale Hurston Plays
presents manuscripts of 10 plays written by author, anthropologist, and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960). The plays had been deposited in the U.S. Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944 but were unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997. The plays reflect Hurston's life experience, travels, research, and study of folklore in the African-American South. (Library of Congress)New — Tides and Water Levels
examines the complex systems that govern the movement tides and water levels. Learn what causes tides, what determines their frequencies and variations, and how they're monitored and measured. Find lessons on forces that affect tides and how lunar cycles affect living organisms. Use the "roadmap" to find data and predictions regarding water levels and coastal currents -- information on which maritime activities throughout the world depend. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)New — NOAA Discovery Kits
presents tutorials, lessons, and multimedia activities for learning about corals, estuaries, ocean currents, tides, and pollution from diffuse sources. Learn about corals and threats to them; causes of ocean currents and how currents affect people's lives; estuaries, the waters and habitats where rivers meet the sea and form some of the world's most productive ecosystems; and geodesy, the science of measuring and monitoring the shape of the earth and the location of points on its surface. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)01.04.08
Chemistry
See online simulations of concepts in thermodynamics, states of matter, water, and reactions, including Brownian motion, Maxwell's speed distribution law, diffusion and osmosis, ion transport, distillation, motion of greenhouse gases, gas laws, liquid-solid comparisons, intermolecular forces, salt dissolving, chemical reactions, explosion, and more. (Concord Consortium, National Science Foundation)New — Biology
explores biological molecules, self-assembly, and DNA. Zoom in on the macromolecules from which living things are made. Discover how, on the molecular level, things can assemble themselves. Learn how genetic information stored in DNA is read by cells and used to build proteins that cells need. Find out about protein folding, protein-substrate docking, and the important role of shapes and charges in self assembly. (Concord Consortium, National Science Foundation)New — Nanotechnology
shows animations of molecular crystals, material strength experiments, different phases of liquid crystals, shockwaves, interatomic interactions in the soft v. hard materials, a microscopic model of friction, atomic motion across a liquid-solid interface, water molecules moving through carbon nanotubes, nanobud (a newly discovered material), nano machinery, nano differential gears, a molecular sorter, a nano conveyor belt, and more. (Concord Consortium, National Science Foundation)New — Chemistry
presents online simulations of thermodynamics, states of matter, water, and reactions. See interactive visualizations of Brownian motion, Maxwell's speed distribution law, diffusion and osmosis, ion transport, distillation, motion of greenhouse gases, gas laws, liquid-solid comparisons, intermolecular forces, salt dissolving, chemical reactions, explosion, and more. (Concord Consortium, National Science Foundation)01.02.08
New — Physics
provides more than 40 online interactives that demonstrate concepts in mechanics, fluid mechanics and dynamics, electromagnetism, and quantum physics. Watch simulations of a pendulum, suspension bridge, charged particle in a magnetic chamber, hourglass, Archimedes' Principle of Buoyancy, electrical fields, gears, light-matter interactions, Newton's Cradle, pulleys, springs, water flow when a dam collapses, and more. (Concord Consortium, National Science Foundation)Science Pedagogy in Action
More than 25 pedagogic techniques for teaching sciences are explored at this website: game-based learning, testing conjectures, peer review, quantitative writing, role playing, using spreadsheets, and others. Find more than 600 learning activities in biology, environmental science, geography, geoscience, math, and physics.New — Microbial Life
focuses on the ecology, diversity, and evolution of micro-organisms. Learn about marine microbes and extremophile microbes that live in inhospitable environments. Explore the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone and the red tide through case studies. Find out about microbial observatories and extreme environments, including Mono Lake (a lake in California's Eastern Sierra), Octopus Spring (a hot spring that is home to various thermophiles and microbial mat communities), and others. (Science Education Resource Center, National Science Foundation)New — Case Method of Teaching Science
features case studies for use in teaching anatomy, chemistry, environment, evolution, medicine and health, microbiology, molecular biology and genetics, physics and engineering, plant science, psychology, and other sciences. Cases focus on dozens of topics, including carbohydrates, cloning, diabetes, drug dosages, energy drinks, global warming, heart attacks, irradiation, the nervous system, nuclear power, pesticides, skin cancer, wetlands, and others. (State University of New York, National Science Foundation)
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