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Tag Archives: online resources
What are you doing with your wiki?
Wikis have been called ”the quintessential collaborative tool.” In this article from the February 2010 issue of NSTA Reports, you’ll find out how teachers around the country are using wikis to collaborate with colleagues around the world, as well as to communicate with students and parents.
Do you have a wiki? Tell us about yours, and how you [...]
Posted in NSTA Reports Also tagged classroom management, classroom strategies, literacy, professional development, resources, technology 1 comment
Science literacy
Making the connections between science, reading, writing, and media literacy has been a professional interest of mine for many years. So I get really excited when The Science Teacher has literacy as a theme. In addition to these articles, SciLinks has additional resources under the topic Reading and Writing in Science with ideas to help [...]
What’s new with NSTA’s members?
NSTA members are in conversation in all kinds of places—on these blogs, in NSTA’s Listservs, on our new online communities, and throughout our external social media outposts, such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Recent conversations include cold weather experiments (a “hot” topic these past couple of weeks through most of the US), mitosis activities, and stoichiometry [...]
Posted in NSTA Membership Also tagged cooperative learning, membership, professional development, resources Leave a comment
If you were a dinosaur …
Some children love pandas, some love dogs, but many more love dinosaurs. At times it seems young children feel dinosaurs are “more real”—more interesting, more important, more present in their minds—than modern animals. “More real” might be an exaggeration, but details about dinosaurs are verbalized more often than those about most modern animals. They can [...]
Posted in Early Years Also tagged activity ideas, animals, dinosaurs, early childhood, insects 3 comments
Resource sharing—websites and other places to learn
Does it seem to you that this blog needs a place to post about resources such as book and website recommendations, commercial sites for needed early childhood science supplies, and interesting articles that are not necessarily related to a particular post? As a blog it is difficult for readers to begin new threads, but here’s one [...]
Handouts about science to share with families—add your favorite resources
“What kind of science do you teach young children?!” people sometimes ask when they hear that the preschool curriculum includes science. Being able to share how the science activities are age appropriate, lay the groundwork for deeper understanding in later years, and support literacy and math learning, helps families understand that science is a natural [...]
Online forums—communities that inform our practice
I like to visit other classes and learn what other teachers are doing—but not much time is allotted in a preschool budget for such networking.
Internet forums can serve the same purpose. Viewing teacher’s pages and communicating through online forums broadens my community and improves my teaching. What are your favorite online forums for early childhood teachers—especially those [...]
Learning about motion and appropriate restraints
Some children chafe at any restriction, including car seat straps. Doing an activity about force and motion may not make them any happier to be strapped in but it may help them understand what could happen if they weren’t restrained during an accident. The March 2009 Early Years column in Science and Children provides instructions for discussing [...]
The resource-full teacher
Some of you may remember the pre-Internet days when if you didn’t subscribe to a mailed publication, you had to trek to a public or university library to catch up on your reading on science topics. I must confess that for me back then, it was difficult to find the time to spend a few [...]
Going green