Have you ever wanted to show your students pictures from a scanning electron microscope or, even better yet, wanted your students to explore a specimen using a scanning electron microscope? Well, now you no longer need to apply for that multi-million dollar grant for one of these pricey microscopes. At the NECC conference Lisa and […]
One of my big projects for this summer is learning how to podcast. “What is a podcast,” you may wonder? I am personally very new to this technology, but I would think of a podcast as basically a radio broadcast, but over the computer. One of the nice features of a podcast is that you […]
This past week Lisa and I presented the NECC conference in San Diego with John and Burt. Before our presentation Lisa and I attended some other meetings and picked up a bunch of great ideas and resources. Over the next few weeks I will be posting some of them here. One of the first resources […]
As part of a unit on forces and motion many teachers in my school district have their students build roller coasters at home. A fellow teacher has her students visit the library to plan out their projects, but since I have a set of student laptops in my classroom I thought I would have my […]
The Diet Coke and Mentos experiment has been quite popular with my students this year. If you do not teach junior high science and are unfamiliar with this experiment it involves placing Mentos in a 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke. When the Mentos are dropped in, the Diet Coke sprays out of the bottle […]
Every year when I try to explain to my students how large the universe is I find that they don’t really seem to grasp the size of the vast distances from one star to another. This year I stumbled across the Interstellar Trip Planner on the NASA website. This website allows you to select a […]
Have you ever needed to know how many kilobytes are in a gigabyte? Have you ever been asked by a student how many miles per hour is 100 meters per second? Well, this is the site that can tell you that information…quickly. Asknumbers.com (http://www.asknumbers.com/) is a very easy to use online conversion website. All you […]
A few weeks ago I picked up a 30 GB Video iPod through a class at the Stanislaus County Office of Education. So far, I have found it to be quite handy for use in the classroom. I have downloaded a few video podcasts, such as “Ask an Astronomer” and “NASA Brain Bites” to compliment […]
A link to this website was emailed to me a few weeks ago and I managed to spend nearly 2 hours reading newspapers from around the world. Somewhere between the LA Times and the London Daily Telegraph I realized this website could be a great resource for a social studies or language arts teacher. Newseum […]