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Discovery Education Science Fair Central offers ideas for science fair projects and experiments for kids Elmer's Teachers Club The Scientific Method: Experimentation Testing the Greenhouse Effect Judging Purpose and Hypothesis Research Selecting a Topic Flipped classrooms: Can they help students learn? Photo by Wavebreakmedia Ltd/Thinkstock This article is part of Future Tense, which is a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. On Wednesday, April 30, Future Tense will host an event in Washington, D.C., on technology and the future of higher education. For more information and to RSVP, visit the New America Foundation website.

Scientists grow tiny beating human hearts to give them heart disease and find a cure (Medical Xpress)—Miniature human hearts that beat of their own accord are being grown by scientists at Abertay University. They have been developed specifically to find a cure for heart hypertrophy - a form of heart disease that can lead to sudden death. Made from stem cells, the tiny hearts are just 1mm in diameter and contract at around 30 beats per minute. Although healthy to begin with, the scientists are using chemicals to simulate the physiological conditions that will make them become hypertrophic - enlarged, due to abnormal growth of the cells that make up the heart (cardiomyocytes).

The Franklin Institute's Resources for Science Learning This presentation of The Franklin Institute's Case Files highlights individuals from the history of science and technology. It is one of many Resources for Science Learning. Each thematic group of Files presented at left begins with commentary from a distinguished historian of the discipline. Three Questions to Consider Before We All Flip It seems like you can't open an education periodical these days without finding an article espousing the wonders of flipping the classroom. Like most initiatives in schools, flipping the classroom does have merit in the right situation. But also like most initiatives it's not a one-size-fits-all solution. Here are three questions that I have to ask before flipping a classroom.

Marine food webs Feeding relationships are often shown as simple food chains – in reality, these relationships are much more complex, and the term ‘food web’ more accurately shows the links between producers, consumers and decomposers. A food web diagram illustrates ‘what eats what’ in a particular habitat. Pictures represent the organisms that make up the food web, and their feeding relationships are typically shown with arrows. Lawrence Hall of Science - 24/7 Science How fast does the wind blow? What makes things sticky? Where do insects live and plants grow? What is the best way to clean up the environment? How do humans measure up in the animal kingdom?

Three Good Tools for Building Flipped Lessons That Include Assessment Tools In the right setting the flipped classroom model can work well for some teachers and students. I recently received an email from a reader who was looking for a recommendation for a tool would enable her to add an assessment aspect to her flipped lesson. Here are some tools that can accomplish that goal. eduCanon is a free service for creating, assigning, and tracking your students' progress on flipped lessons. eduCanon allows teachers to build flipped lessons using YouTube and Vimeo videos, create questions about the videos, then assign lessons to their students.

Lesson Plans The lesson plans presented here are a sampling from NWF's collection of over 1,000 lesson plans designed to introduce students to life science, ecology, wildlife biology, scientific identification and observation. All lesson plans are aligned to the National Science Education Standards. Check back regularly! We will be continually adding to our online library of resources for educators, beginning with the addition of lesson plans from our NatureScope series. BioEd Online: Biology Teacher Resources, Lesson Plans is pleased to offer a new online series of podcasts and supplementary standards-based educational activities, research information, and links. National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) researcher, Dr. Babs Soller of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has been working to develop techniques for non-invasive measurement of blood and tissue chemistry. Her work can be used to help monitor the health of astronauts in space. National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) scientist Scott Dulchavsky has developed a technique to train space flight crews to conduct medical-quality ultrasound imaging in space. David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is working with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) to develop a test that helps astronauts to gauge fatigue and stress during long missions in space.

Resources for Flipped Classroom After careful reflection on my predominantly direct instruction approach to teaching middle school math, I came to the realization that the majority of the students sitting in my classroom were maybe not listening to my lessons. Why? Well, this is not the way our students learn. When they want information, they Google it or look it up on YouTube. As a teacher depending predominately on direct instruction, I found I was repeating myself AFTER teaching the content to the class. It seem like around 30% didn’t need my instructions, 30% were so far behind that they didn’t understand what I taught and the other 40% learned from my instruction.

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