Archive for September, 2008
Science Literacy Maps
The National Science Digital Library, NSDL, features online literacy maps to help teachers find connections and resources on a wide variety of topics.
The Chinese Space Program Serves Notice
Space stories like this are a prime source of information for cross-disciplinary curriculum units; Politics, Technology, Science, History, Economics, Mathematics, and nothing engages young people like humans in space. This is the stuff that literacy is made of.
A Chinese astronaut, Zhai Zhigang, walked in space today and not as a tourist on the International Space [...]
Keeping Up With the Research
My Ed Psych text book advised me to “keep up with research”. Wonderful, yet another source of reading material I have little time for, and yet, after spending a morning surfing about the internet, looking at educational sites, I have to confess I learned something. Educating children is a complex task. Too complex for any [...]
