LATEST LINKS! » Science http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org From Ruben A. Cirillo High School Library Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:17:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Technology & Biology http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/2009/09/19/technology-biology/ http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/2009/09/19/technology-biology/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:01:54 +0000 Jacquie Henry http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/?p=215 Some good ideas in this blog post – Technology In Biology Class.  Alas!  You will have to look at home.  Entirely too racy for our fiendish filter.

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This article includes some related physics resources.

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The Future of Food, a 2004 documentary that offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade, is available to watch, for free, through Hulu.

]]> http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/2009/06/04/154/feed/ 0 TEDTalks : Jonathan Drori: Why we’re storing billions of seeds http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/2009/05/28/tedtalks-jonathan-drori-why-were-storing-billions-of-seeds/ http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/2009/05/28/tedtalks-jonathan-drori-why-were-storing-billions-of-seeds/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 18:35:53 +0000 Jacquie Henry http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/?p=147 Jonathan Drori (2009) from TEDTalks (video)
In this brief talk from TED U 2009, Jonathan Drori encourages us to save biodiversity — one seed at a time. Reminding us that plants support human life, he shares the vision of the Millennium Seed Bank, which has stored over 3 billion seeds to date from dwindling yet essential plant species.

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The site is blocked by BESS – but you can check it in the library or at home.  Some of the content is definitely PG-13. 10 Most Suggestive Cacti On Earth for example =)  Still – there are many interesting articles/phot essays such as:

  • 5 Deadliest Effects of Global Warming
  • 8 Incredible Green Roofs
  • Remarkable Images of Activism from the Last Fifty Years
  • Fibonacci Sequence Illustrated by Nature
  • The Birth of Stars
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]]> http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/2009/05/13/google-search-enhancements/feed/ 0 Al Gore: Alarming new slides depict a worsening climate crisis http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/2009/05/07/al-gore-alarming-new-slides-depict-a-worsening-climate-crisis/ http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/2009/05/07/al-gore-alarming-new-slides-depict-a-worsening-climate-crisis/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 14:55:26 +0000 Jacquie Henry http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/?p=108 From TED Talks:

Al Gore: Alarming new slides depict a worsening climate crisis

]]> http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/2009/05/07/al-gore-alarming-new-slides-depict-a-worsening-climate-crisis/feed/ 0 The Encyclopedia of Earth http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/2009/04/23/the-encyclopedia-of-earth/ http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/2009/04/23/the-encyclopedia-of-earth/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:38:20 +0000 Jacquie Henry http://rachslibrary.edublogs.org/?p=104 From the Librarian Internet Index:

The Encyclopedia of Earth

This online encyclopedia has the goal of providing one authoritative information source about the Earth, its environment, the creatures that live on it, and how people interact with and respond to all of the above. Articles are edited and maintained by experts in their respective fields, and they cover a diverse range of topics, usually related to ecological or environmental concerns. Maintained by the Environmental Information Coalition, a group of scientists and educators.

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Created by science teachers for science teachers, the Teacher Institute Podcasts are five-minute podcasts that give educators science facts, science history, and pedagogy tips for new teachers. The podcasts are hosted by the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and support for the project comes from the National Science Foundation, The Noyce Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and others.

Visitors can browse through the podcast series, and they will find thoughtful and fun suggestions on how to make a straw oboe, how to better manage the classroom, and how to build a Brazilian instrument called the cuica. Also, visitors can read up on the Teacher’s Institute’s summer institute program for science educators and also sign up to receive new podcasts via iTunes or RSS. [KMG]

To find this resource and more high-quality online resources in math and science visit Scout’s sister site – AMSER, the Applied Math and Science Educational Repository.

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