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Links Used in Dr. Passow's PPT Slide Show for today's
workshop:
Technology Resources
Resources Available at the Museum of
Natural History on Hydrothermal Vents
Presentation by Deena Bollinger
PowerPoint Guides and Tutorials
Guides to Paint, Word, Web Editing,
Multimedia Files, Special Effects on the Web and Using the
Web Effectively
New Online Science Journal (Learning
Network and NSTA)
Learning Network and National Science Teachers Association Partner to Bring
Online Resources to Teachers
ARLINGTON, VA, December 2001 – Learning Network
[http://learningnetwork.com], the Internet’s largest educational website for
parents, teachers, and students, and the National Science Teachers
Association (NSTA), the world's largest science teacher organization, today
announced a strategic partnership to provide teachers of science with timely
activities and lesson plans to enhance science instruction.
The organizations are combining their vast resources and Internet
capabilities to produce a monthly e-mail newsletter called Science Monthly.
The theme-based newsletter is geared for K-12 educators and provides timely
activities, lesson plans, and resources for quality science instruction.
The first issue of Science Monthly centers on the theme of animal
adaptations, chosen because of its timeliness with the changing of the
seasons. Upcoming topics will include nutrition, classroom safety, careers
in science, soil, Earth Day, summer solstice, and assessment.
NSTA is culling lessons plans and activities from the rich archives of its
award-winning journals, including Science & Children, Science Scope, and The
Science Teacher, as well as from books created by NSTA Press, the publishing
arm of the Association. These activities, along with a host of others
provided by Learning Network, provide the content for the newsletter.
Science Monthly also links teachers to related resources and materials from
both NSTA and the Learning Network online science stores. For instance,
NSTA links users to relevant topical books published by the Association and
guides them to NSTA Recommends, an online service that conducts and
publishes rigorous reviews of thousands of teacher materials on the market.
Learning Network offers thousands of teaching resources and hundreds of
selected products easily purchased online in the Learning Network Store and
through the more than 250 merchants in the SchoolCash program.
Science Monthly will also be published during the summer months, giving
teachers an opportunity to plan special projects before the school year
begins. For example, June’s theme will be community partnerships, which
will give teachers ideas for building relationships in the community during
the summer that can support classroom instruction once the school year
begins.
Science Monthly is e-mailed on the third Wednesday of every month. It is
available free to teachers of science who sign up online at
http://teachervision.com
. Science Monthly is also archived on the Learning
Network’s Teacher Channel, TeacherVision.com.
Contacts:
Cindy Workosky
National Science Teachers Association
703-312-9248
cworkosky@nsta.org
Stephanie Pesce
Learning Network
617-542-6500, ext. 1168
stephanie.pesce@fen.com
David Conti
Learning Network
617-542-6500, ext.1893
david.conti@learningnetwork.com
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