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MSP2 Teacher Leaders assist the community in a variety of ways and serve as hosts and facilitators.


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April O'Leary, Christine Hedge, Natasha Mikus and 7 more joined Middle School Portal
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Hi Tami, Thanks for sharing. I love when people post new new software and then I go and try it out. The kids in my class have definitely benefited from this thread. Let us know how everything goes. Tom
9 hours ago
Kevin M. Hill When asking a student to evaluate y^2 if y = 33, answer was "no it doesn't"
9 hours ago
Other grant opportunities geared toward K-8 teachers (from the Ohio Council for Elementary School Science (OCESS)): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ohio-Council-for-Elementary-School-Science/155070986452 http://twitter.com/ocess
19 hours ago
So, we finished our labs, experiments, discussions, and data collection and I'm ready to wrap it up in a PowerPoint to present our findings to the school board......Thats when my students decide that they wanted to make a Star Wars themed movie. S...
yesterday
I was in this session as well and agree whole heartedly with Eric. One thing that I will offer is that I am currently doing a Service Learning STEM activity as we speak. It involves reducing electiricty consumption in our building. Here is a link...
yesterday
It truly is great stuff. It's amazing how teachers that take the time to utilize web resources to communicate with parents really do reap many rewards. I know that since I've started using the web to share the details of my class the learning proc...
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Tom Jenkins

Award and Grant Opportunities 1 Reply

Started by Tom Jenkins in Uncategorized. Last reply by Christopher Andersen 19 hours ago.

Eric Biederbeck

Teaching STEM through Service Learning 1 Reply

Started by Eric Biederbeck in NMSA09 Conference Sessions. Last reply by Tom Jenkins 1 day ago.

Tom Jenkins

Summer Opportunities for STEM Teachers

Started by Tom Jenkins in Uncategorized 1 day ago.

Picture of the Day from Science360 News Service

Spring Bloom in New Zealand Waters

Full Text:

Off the east coast of New Zealand, cold rivers of water that have branched off from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current flow north past the South Island and converge with warmer waters flowing south past the North Island. The surface waters of this meeting place are New Zealand's most biologically productive. This image of the area on October 25, 2009, from the MODIS sensor on NASA's Aqua satellite shows the basis for that productivity: large blooms of plantlike organisms called phytoplankton.

Phytoplankton use chlorophyll and other pigments to absorb sunlight for photosynthesis, and when they grow in large numbers, they change the way the ocean surface reflects sunlight. Caught up in eddies and currents, the blooms create intricate patterns of blues and greens that spread across thousands of square kilometers of the sea surface.

Image credit: NASA/MODIS Rapid Response/Jeff Schmaltz. Caption Credit: Rebecca Lindsey, NASA Earth Observatory.

Blog Posts

Tim Ferras

LIVE FOOTBALL ON INTERNET

Posted by Tim Ferras on November 10, 2009 at 2:40am

Cindy Fallsen

accelerated math

Posted by Cindy Fallsen on November 8, 2009 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Kristen

Teaching and Depression

Posted by Kristen on November 6, 2009 at 3:42pm

Karolee Smiley

NMSA 09

Posted by Karolee Smiley on November 5, 2009 at 8:11pm

Middle School Portal

Free MSP2 Grocery Tote

Posted by Middle School Portal on November 2, 2009 at 10:49am

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