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Kim Lightle's Blog – March 2010 Archive (5)

Math/Science Educator Survey

Project partners at EDC, Inc. are trying to design a rubric and controlled vocabulary to aid in identifying quality science and math online resources to use with middle school youth, and they hope you’ll help out. By filling out this survey, you will help them learn what types of online resources and formats are useful for teaching middle school youth, how you identify those resources, and what science and math topics educators find challenging to teach. The questions on…

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Added by Kim Lightle on March 29, 2010 at 12:53pm — 2 Comments

High Schoolers Give Hot Dog a DNA Test

...and also discovered a new species of cockroach! This short video tells the story of two high school students (in their own words) who decided to test the DNA of 200 everyday items. Direct Link: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp4?http://media.libsyn.com/media/sciencefriday/brendamatt-012210.mp4

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Added by Kim Lightle on March 19, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Iceberg Rams Glacier and the Glacier Loses

In 1992, a 60 miles long iceberg in the Southern Ocean, named B-9B, which had calved from an even larger iceberg -- B9 – ran aground off the coast of Antarctica, not far in nautical miles from the Mertz Glacier Tongue. In February of this year, B-9B was back at sea and rammed into the glacier tongue. The result is a new iceberg named C-28, measuring 50 miles long and 25 miles wide, and weighing in at 860 billion tons. The collision is… Continue

Added by Kim Lightle on March 11, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

3rd National EdTech Plan - Draft Just Released

The Office Educational Technology has just released the draft of the 3rd National EdTech Plan “Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology" which promotes a vision of technology as being integral to teaching, learning, assessment,… Continue

Added by Kim Lightle on March 9, 2010 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Engineering Barbie?

Alice Agogino has an interesting blog post about the history and evolution of the Barbie doll, women inventors, and resources for women in computing and information science. Mattel, Barbie's maker, plans to release a computer engineer version of Barbie in the near future.

Added by Kim Lightle on March 8, 2010 at 11:10am — 2 Comments