Join WAT's I Am Teacher Application on Facebook and find teachers like you around the world! Join Now!
Natural & Social Sciences
We live in a world filled with wonders. KIDS DISCOVER brings that world to students and teachers, providing the best science and social studies content available in an engaging, fact-filled format. Enter the Natural & Social Sciences Microgrant and tell us how you bring the "wonders of the world" to your students. You could win $200 and a Flip Video camera or iPod Nano with video!
Enter by Feb. 16, 2010. Voting Feb. 18-Mar. 4. Rally as many votes as you can! The projects with the most community votes receive $200 and a Flip Video camera to iPod Nano with video to share the project in action. Recipients will be announced Mar. 8.
A blog about teaching elementary math, science and socials studies, with heavy emphasis on the integration of children's literature across the curriculum.
Laura
June 29, 1999, written and illustrated by Caldecott Medalist David Wiesner, chronicles the strange events that occur exactly one month after the story’s young scientist, Holly Evans, launches vegetable seedlings into the sky on seed flats with Acme weather balloons. “Holly intends to study the effects of extraterrestrial conditions on vegetable [...]
WIRED Science Education
Bonnie Fleming is an atom smasher, a.k.a., neutrino physicist. Neutrinos are fundamental particles of the universe that are similar to electrons but do not carry a charge. Fleming studies their properties by observing how they respond in particle detectors.
The forward momentum of medical progress is manifest, it could be argued, in the $50 billion spent in 2008 on pharmaceutical research and development in the quest to bring new drugs to market. But little scientific or governmental infrastructure exists to ensure that each new treatment is actually an improvement over existing therapies--and to tease out what therapies are best for which patients. [More]
Joe W. Trotter
Joe W. Trotter Sep 1, 2004; 28:355-366
Featured Video
Twitter
What do you think? Use #STEM, #science, #chemistry, #biology, #physics, #socialstudies, #history or #civics to share and follow tweets about these subjects.
Resources
Natural & Social Sciences resources, reports and white papers. Log in to download, rate and post your review.