This year’s FETC Keynote Presentation featured Animal Planet’s Emmy-Award-winning wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin for an up close and personal conversation about his work in the environment and ecology, and how his experiences can be applied in the classroom to engage students and inspire an interest in learning.
HyperProducts Project Overview Eighth Grade S.T.E.M. Class This first semester S.T.E.M. (Science Technology Engineering and Math) class project encourages you to use your imagination combined with the tools of science and computers to create and explore your own unique vision of a future technology. All inventions and innovations result from creative thinking “outside the box” and clever problem solving to make them happen. You will take a good look at the tools, …
Overview of the Role of Science Research Projects at Zion Science projects are often met with a sigh of resignation from both students and parents. Students look ahead to lots and lots of work that is not something they can easily avoid by getting it out of a book. Parents perhaps think back to their own days as a student and their own experiences doing science projects. They may feel that this project is being assigned to them as well. Let us start this year with a fresh perspective …
DNAi is an interactive site for classroom use. It is geared to high school but could be used with middle school honors/gifted students. If teachers register for the website, it lets you create your own website with lesson plan building etc for your students only. Additionally, you can download 15 lesson plans for use in your classroom. Plans include objectives, national education standards, student worksheets, and more! URL: http://www.dnai.org/index.htm