The Geneticist-Educator Network of Alliances, or GENA, Teacher Pam Engel has students build family trees to study genetics, earns certification from GENA
The National Science Digital Library, NSDL, features online literacy maps to help teachers find connections and resources on a wide variety of topics.
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 [...]