Into the Driver's Seat

Take a look at the engineering Challenge Cards included in the free Engineering Box for secondary school students.

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In this episode I share technology resources and ideas for science experiments you can use during any part of the school year.

The NASA Mars lander, InSight, succeeded in landing on the surface of the Red Planet this afternoon, surviving an intense plunge through the Martian atmosphere.

"Since the release of its web-based version, Google Earth has been tremendously incorporated into educational contexts by teachers from all around the world. ..."

  Here’s how Skype A Scientist describes itself: Skype a Scientist matches scientists with classrooms around the world! Scientists will skype into the classroom for 30-60 minute Q and A …

Legends of Learning has hundreds of science games for kids in elementary and middle school. Their website has standards-based science games and assessments for the science classroom.

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Many elementary school teachers love to teach reading and writing, but are less comfortable with science and math. It’s not a hard and fast truth, of course, but learning to read is a big focus of the early school years, so it makes sense that teachers who gravitate toward elementary school like teaching literacy. But it’s also important to expose kids to science early and get them excited about the practices that define scientific inquiry. And literature may be the perfect starting point. Stories are full of tension, conflict and dilemmas that make wonderful departure points for engineering projects that weave subjects together.

Nobelprize.org, the official site of Nobel Prize, offers a number of interesting educational games you can use with your students in class. These are interactive games and simulations based on Nobel-awarded achievements to teach and inspire students. There are actually over 29 games covering different topics including physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics. Most of these games include a ‘Read more’ link to help students learn more about the subject. Below are the 10 most popular games in Nobelprize.org. To access all the educational resources and games, check out this page.

Ready for this?! Here are 11 of my favorite earth science apps and earth science websites for teachers! Lots of choices for your classroom.

When a teacher noticed her kids fighting at recess, she turned to neuroscience and mindfulness practice to help them take control of their emotions.

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

  Here’s how Skype A Scientist describes itself: Skype a Scientist matches scientists with classrooms around the world! Scientists will skype into the classroom for 30-60 minute Q and A …

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

10 AMAZING SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS! and TRICKS compilation they are awesome easy to do at home, using copper wire battery and magnets gyroscopes chain and ring, electric train etc.

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Frontiers for Young Minds is a scientific open access journal edited by and for kids.

Got bored kids? Get their brains working with these fun and simple science projects!

The apps we curated for you today provide students with virtual labs where they can learn more on a wide variety of scientific phenomena. Using an inquiry-based learning approach, students will get to access interactive simulations, collaborate on quizzes, explore tables of elements and solve scientific puzzles all while having fun. We have included both Android and iPad apps, check them out and see which ones work for you. Enjoy

In an effort to curb the adverse environmental impacts of paper production, researchers in a new study have developed a light-printable paper—paper that can be printed with UV light, erased by heating to 120 °C (250 °F), and rewritten more than 80 times. The secret to printing with light lies in the color-changing chemistry of nanoparticles, a thin coating of which can be easily applied to conventional paper to transform it into the light-printable version.

The researchers, Wenshou Wang and coauthors at Shandong University in China; the University of California, Riverside; and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have published a paper on the light-printable rewritable paper in a recent issue of Nano Letters.

"On Sunday evening I shared a list of ten good sources of social studies videos. To keep the video source series going I've created a list of sources for educational science videos. Here are ten good sources of science videos for students and teachers ..."