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>> Site Name Magnets at the Core >> Site URL [] >> Site Author Consortium For Ocean Leadership >> Suggested By Leslie Peart >> Description “Instructions for an activity where students use core models made from swim noodles with embedded magnets and compasses to measure and record magnetic orientation. These model cores simulate the magnetic fields recorded in real deep-sea sediment cores obtained.” >> >> >> Site Name Recent Earthquake Teachable Moments >> Site URL [] >> Site Author IRIS >> Suggested By Becky Remis >> Description “Teachable information about the Haitian Quake. Complete lists of teachable moment PowerPoint presentations are available along with animations and visualizations. Links for additional Haiti earthquake resources are listed at the bottom of the site.” >> >> >> Site Name Division of Seismology, Geology, and Tectonophysics >> Site URL [] >> Site Author Columbia University >> Suggested By Michael Passow >> Description “Highlights of the projects researchers have done at this University are posted here. These project highlights include earthquakes, faulting, geodynamics, and ocean bottom seismology.” >> >> >> Water >> Site Name Water Footprint Calculator >> Site URL [] >> Site Author Prof. Arjen Y. Hoekstra and Dr. Ashok K. Champaign >> Suggested By Michael Gallagher >> Description “Your individual water footprint is equal to the water required to produce the goods and services consumed by you. Please take your time and feel free to use the extended water footprint calculator to assess your own unique water footprint. The calculations are based on the water requirements per unit of product as in your country of residence.” It would be desirable if the assumptions used in constructing the model were included. >> >> >> Weather >> Site Name Golden Gate Sundog >> Site URL [] >> Site Author Mila Zinkova >> Suggested By Matt Coia >> Description “Images of cool colors in the sky, looking like a halo or corona of some sort reflecting/refracting through a low, wide bank of clouds near the horizon except that each small streak of orange and yellow color was really far away from the sun in the NE and SE corners of the sky. These images are called sun dogs.” >> For more images of sundogs see: >> http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/dogcol.htm >> http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/parhelia.htm >> >> >> Site Name Weather Spark >> Site URL [] >> Site Author Jacob Norda and James Diebel >> Suggested By Sean Ellison >> Description “Full of lesson materials. Complete set of weather history reports broken down daily by the hour. Complete with temperatures, amount of precipitation and cloud cover. Very interesting!” >> >> Space >> Site Name The Sun may be Headed for a Little Quiet Time >> Site URL [|http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/14/the-sun-may-be-headed-for-a-little-quiet-time/#more-33240] >> Site Author Richard B Dunn >> Suggested By Jay Sinclair >> Description “The Bad Astronomer has an interesting post about the possibility of weak or even non-existent solar maxima over the next couple of cycles. Even though the Sun is currently approaching the peak of its cycle in 2013, and we’re seeing an increase in activity (more sunspots, flares, and other violent events), there are strong signs that the next expected peak (in 2022 or later) may be weaker, or may not come at all!” >> >> >> Site Name Musings of Carl Sagan ... "Before we Found our Way" >> Site URL [] >> Site Author UNAVCO >> Suggested By Lou Estey >> Description Spectacular imagery: “A video speaking of the future and all the greatness we are capable of achieving in future generations. Stating how our weaknesses hold us back yet noting everything we have achieved. Many photos of nature are shown in the background of the video.” >> >> >> Site Name The Universe’s Size >> Site URL [] >> Site Author Nicole Sosnoski >> Suggested by Nicole Sosnoski >> Description “A virtual (Prezi) presentation to make the scale of the universe easier to understand.” >> >> General >> Site Name Tracking Hazards in Real Time >> Site URL [] >> Site Author RSOE Emergency Information and Disaster Service >> Suggested by Thomas McGuire >> Description “The RSOE Emergency Information and Disaster Service created a webpage that begins with a multi-function world map that plots a wide range of current events including volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, biological hazards and even Earth approaching objects. Interactive tables listing each disaster along with details including specific locations follow. It's colorful and very user-friendly.” >> >> >> Site Name Wikipedia Comes of Age – You Mean it’s OK for Students to Use it? >> Site URL []? sid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en >> Site Author Casper Grathwohl >> Suggested by Marion Weaver >> Description “An interesting article about Wikipedia in the Chronicle Review of the Chronicle of Higher Education wherein the author is now supportive of the use of Wikipedia because it can play a valid role in formal educational settings. He feels that the role of academic publishers is now to strengthen links from entries to more advanced resources, he gives documented examples.” >> >> Teaching >> Site Name Core Practices for Ambitious Science Teaching >> >> Site URL [] >> Site Author Early Career Science Educators >> Suggested By David Smith >> Description “This is a website is for new teachers to develop ideas about how to communicate information to students effectively. The website contains descriptions of the effective strategies to promote learning and videos of teachers using them. It will take a good deal of time to work through it all, and even more time to become proficient but they really hit the nail on the head in terms of research-based practices.” >> >> >> Environment >> Site Name The Fukushima Daiichi Incident Powerpoing >> Site URL [] >> Site Author Dr. Matthias Braun >> Suggested by Mark Heilbrunn >> Description A powerpoint containing all the details of the Fukushima Daiichi incident which occured in Japan. Including the plant design, accident progression, radiological releases and fuel pools. >> >> Demo >> Title Plate Tectonics Demo >> Contributor John Henry Cottrell >> Description “A power point about plate tectonics to go along with completing a demo with a paper towels and small aquarium. Explain how the plates near the ridge are hotter and thus lighter. The further one travels from the rift two things occur, one, it gets colder and it also builds up more sediment (i.e. limestone, shale, etc), both helping making the slab more dense. Then put a small paperclip on one end of the paper towel to explain the extra density at a subduction zone. Put the paper towel flat on the top of the water in the aquarium... in a short time the paper towel will "subduct" into the aquarium similar to plate subduction” >> URL Here is a PowerPoint to with background on plate tectonics [] >> >> >> Title Coriolis Spin Table Tops >> Contributor Virginia Malone >> Description “I used paper and a ruler (this seems to confirm to students that the line drawn is "straight line." The following is the lesson plan >> [] you will need to sign in but it is free and no spam. Since each pair of students can complete their own models, I like the try it out which has the students illustrate the effects off: >> A planet that rotates very fast >> A planet that is not rotating >> Earth from the Southern Hemisphere. >> Winds blowing from the Equator toward the pole. (Draw the pencil from the edge of the paper to the center.” >> >> Computer Tips >> Site Name Desmos: Powerful, free on line calculator >> Site URL [] >> Site Author Desmos >> Suggested by Rich MacLeish >> Description “Forged from the math engine of the Desmos Whiteboard, we've built the best browser-based calculator on the web. It's powerful, beautiful, intuitive, and free! Desmos is a place where anyone can create and share rich, interactive content that works across platforms – from computers, to interactive touch screens in classrooms, and even to many tablet devices and smart phones.” >> >> Humor >> Site Name Celebrity Dirty Jobs: Why you want Students to Excel in School >> Site URL [] >> Site Author TVKim.com >> Suggested by Tim Wozniak >> Description Tell the kids this is the reason why you want to succeed in school. There are some jobs you just wouldn't want to do. Mike Rowe's job is to find these jobs and work them for a day. Listen to him talk about the fascinating, and sometimes gross, jobs he's worked. He also talks about how these jobs have changed his idea about work.
 * 1) Homework
 * 2) a consistent policy for all classes related to homework assignments..... each student gets one "pass" a trimester per class. The pass allows the student one "extra" day to complete the assignment, i.e because of excuses like.... I lost it, can't find it in my locker, forgot to do it, ...(not for absent students). If the student has already used their pass then he/she earns homework "Attention" directly after school that day. The student calls a parent and informs him/her that they didn't do their work and must stay for homework "Attention" and fill out a slip and it's placed in the proctor's mailbox. The student will continue to serve "Attention" until the assignment has been completed...Attention is 40 minutes long after school. teachers take turns proctoring it. The proctor collects the assignment... paperclips the Attention sheet to it ...and puts it in the teacher's mailbox. This system actually works!! 1. parents know right away when their child is missing an assignment 2. the parents get upset with their child -- not the teacher -- because they need to pick up their child 15 minutes after regular dismissal...it puts them/off schedule. 3 the students hate missing out on dismissal time (20 minutes of it) --when they can just hang out with their friends, 4. the work gets done in a timely manner.
 * 3) Measurement
 * 4) T he story of the Gimli glider emphasizes how important it is to know what units you are dealing with - a mistake led to a jetliner running out of fuel and becoming the Gimli glider. []
 * 5) A mistake in units conversion []
 * 6) Notebooks
 * 7) Science Notebooks-Science Notebooks Writing about Inquiry by Brian Campbell & Lori Fulton published by Heinemann
 * 8) Teaching Science with Interactive Notebooks by Kellie Marcarelli published by Corwin
 * 9) Classroom Management
 * 10) Seating Chart: use a file folder for each class, write the students name on a small stickie and arrange the inside of the folder according my seating. If a student has to be moved for any reason it is as simple as switching stickies and can be done immediately...no erasing, no rewriting.....and when restructuring move 'students/stickies' and then look around to see interactions
 * 11) Kay Gamble-How to get students quiet--Try the coyote - raise your hand up with the fhumb and 2nd and 3rd fingers pressed together making a closed mouth and the index and pinky straight like ears. The coyote is listening with his ears while his mouth is shut. This is the signal for quiet - they can raise their coyote too
 * 12) Book Suggestions
 * 13) science
 * 14) James Pattersons' Maximum Ride Series; House of Scorpion.
 * 15) Ideas
 * 16) Science activities
 * 17) bring in worms and gummy worms, then move into alive/not alive? Hang a gummy worm from a hook and hook a paper cup on the other other end. Keep track of pennies added, measure how long the worm is stretching, etc. When it finally breaks and the pennies shoot everywhere, it's quite exciting. Also a good idea to start out with some sort of round table discussion, lead with a question and solicit answers. Janeen Near North Montesssori Math, Science, Robotics, Technology
 * 18) NSTA ListServ
 * 19) Geosphere