Pedagogy for the 21st Century
Are you or a fellow teacher teaching students about earthquakes this year? Here is a way to incorporate technology into your teaching of them. The USGS (United States Geological Survey) has a very good page dedicated to everything there is to know about earthquakes.
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Attention math and science teachers, here is a way to integrate technology in your teaching! There is a free site called Create A Graph and on it your students can create a graph of their choice and specify values. This is a far easier way to build a quality graph than using Excel. Try Create A Graph out with your students. When they are finished they can save it or print it.
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Many schools throughout the United States have the frog dissection as part of their science curriculum. Those that are in favor of the “traditional” dissection argue that there is no replacement for a real frog. Emantras Interactive Technologies disagrees and have created a quality frog dissection Ipad app which can be used as an alternative to real frogs. PETA has praised their efforts by recognizing them with PETA’s Mark Twain Ethical Science Award.
“Millions of frogs, cats, pigs, and other animals suffer and are killed for dissection even though modern non-animal teaching methods for biology have repeatedly proved to be superior,” says PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Kathy Guillermo recently.
Emantras Interactive Technologies says that in the near future you can expect more virtual dissections of other animals as well as an updated version of the frog dissection that will include additional systems and an interactive quiz.
UPDATE: This virtual frog dissection has a new version 1.2 which includes everything from the original version plus the following additions:
For a sample of the virtual frog dissection take a look at the video below:
Do you or someone you know teach electric curcuits? If so this site is for you. It’s called The Blobz Guide To Electric Currents. It’s free. It’s also easy for students to use. Up to 5 people can take part in an activity at once so having students share computers is not a problem.
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Trust me, there is some good stuff on here. It’s called FREE-Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. It’s well organized by topic/subject and most of the sites that I looked at were very relevant and useful. Be sure to scroll down a bit on the FREE site for specific categories.
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Free high school and college chemistry help at My Chemistry Tutor. It’s a useful site, allows students to enter a free forum and ask questions about chemistry. It’s that easy. Students can also send a message to a specific tutor here. So why not offer it to those struggling students that are already on the computer all night? Here is an idea, show them that technology can be a tool for learning.
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Many science classrooms around the United States will be doing a frog dissection at some point this year. I’m finding more and more students objecting to taking part in the dissection of a real frog. There are alternatives and ways for them to still learn from the experience.
At Froguts there is a virtual dissection that is free, just make sure to click in the upper right on “Demo”. I usually do this with the whole class just a day or two before the actual dissection, with a SMART board. This could also serve as an alternative to the real dissection for some students that don’t want to do it.
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Attention science teachers. If you teach parts of a cell I have a good site for you and your students. The Virtual Cell Web Page takes you on a tour of a cell. I suggest allowing students the opportunity to research cells using this this site and a computer. Have them research each organelle. Yet another way to integrate technology into your science classroom.
Check out the other science resources/sites that are on our TIC Recommends page.
Recently we featured the University of Nottingham’s Periodic Table of Videos, a great resource. Another resource they have is called Sixty Symbols, which is a site similar to the period table in that there is a video explaining each of the symbols of physics and astronomy. I can’t tell you enough how impressed I am with their site, very well done and thorough.
If you know someone that teaches science, send them this post. The Periodic Table of Videos alone is something any science teacher would enjoy.
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The Periodic Table of Elements is found in science classrooms around the world, usually hanging somewhere on the wall. In my experiences students memorize more than really understand what the elements are or how they are used. The University of Nottingham can help; they have a free Periodic Table of Videos page that features a video for each element. The videos go beyond basic knowledge by showing samples and discussing their uses. I hope you find as useful as I did.
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