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March 2010 Blog Posts (11)

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

Pringles Challenge 2010

Announcing one of the first major STEM Collaborations between members of MSP2.

The Pringles Challenge is deceptively simple in concept. Your objective is to design and create a package to send a single Pringles Potato chip to another school in the US, via First Class Mail. The goal is to have the package that transports the chip safely with the smallest mass and volume.

Eric Biederbeck and I participated in our own mini-Pringles Challenge last school year, and it was an… Continue

Added by Todd Williamson on March 22, 2010 at 6:23am — 2 Comments

NC Middle School Association Conference Notes

Hi folks,

The North Carolina Middle School Association had their annual conference earlier this week in Greensboro, NC. I was lucky enough to attend and took notes on the sessions I attended. There were some really good sessions and a few that received a "Not Yet" :) Would love any comments or thoughts on the notes and if you have any questions I'll be glad to answer them if I can! The notes can be found here:…

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Added by Todd Williamson on March 19, 2010 at 12:58pm — No Comments

Getting Grants - Several new opportunities

Have you checked out the Getting Grants section of the MSP2 Resources box recently? We're always adding new grant opportunities for… Continue

Added by Sarita Pillai on March 19, 2010 at 10:16am — No Comments

Gender, Reading and Math

One part of the gender gap closes

From the PEN Weekly Newsblast - A new report from the Center on Education… Continue

Added by Sarita Pillai on March 19, 2010 at 9:59am — No 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

Link in Science Friday website:… Continue

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

Use MSP To Network Your Classroom

Okay......Let's say person "A" is in Dayton, Ohio and person "B" in Bakersfield, California. Person "A" is teaching their class about the San Andreas Fault. Person "B" about the invention of flight. Assuming that both of these people are on MSP2- Why not have the classes work together and share their area of expertise/local interests? Contact folks in our on-line community and make the world a smaller, more interesting place. I've done this several times and its something that is fun for the…

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Added by Tom Jenkins on March 11, 2010 at 1:32pm — 9 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

All About Me!

Aloha from Maui! Hopefully, this blog will answer some of the questions you may have about me. Yes, Davilla is my first name. It rhymes with "vanilla".

I was born and raised in Texas. I graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Zoology and M.S. in Natural Resources Development. After graduating, I worked as a biologist and then as an environmental consultant before moving to Hawaii.

When I was younger, I came to Maui on vacation. I… Continue

Added by Davilla Riddle on March 9, 2010 at 10:00pm — 2 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