aclJohn's Science Finds

The National Science and Engineering Week takes place this year from 12-21 March.

A nationwide celebration of...

• science,
• engineering and
• technology

...involving people of all ages in thousands of events across the country.

Mo...

With Inquiry in Action, practitioners can teach physical science and chemistry concepts using an inquiry-based approach that supports national content standards. 

Inquiry in Action is a compilation of...

• lesson plans;
• activities; and
• labs

...all focusing on an inquiry-based approach to learning chemistry and physical science concepts.

Find out more by visiting the website at http://www.inquiryinaction.org/ or download the publication at http://www.inquiryinaction.org/pdf/InquiryinActio...

Learner directed tours, like the five collections of science resources offered by Rader, are great tools for differentiating activities within the classroom.

Rader has been producing useful self-study lessons and quizzes for younger learners for quite a while. 

The five websites to visit are...

They are good resources for science and/or ...

This Periodic table contains all the usual information you find in a periodic table of elements, but then under each element, it lists real-world items that contain that element.

This opens up a new avenue of projects for Science practitioners where students can not only learn the different elements, but then connect them to real world uses and even explore the method in which the element is applied.

To access this resource go to http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/bpes_new/bpes_new_...

38, yes 38 animations for those engaged in the delivery of Biology.

The Legal notice on their website tells us that...

"Noncommerical links to animations on this website are permitted only if the link is to the HTML file displaying the animation. Direct links to Flash (.swf), Shockwave (.dcr) or QuickTime (.mov) files are expressly prohibited. Links for commercial purposes are prohibited without the prior written permission of Sumanas, Inc."

This is yet another wonderful re...

It must be obvious to established eMagazine readers that I have a Science/Maths background as I am constantly flagging resources for both. This month is no exception.

John L. Giannini's website has a collection of...

• Movies
• Annimations
• An explorable cell and
• Some useful links.

The Royal Society's gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - provides high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible. They hope that these interactive resources will give users a flavour of the fascinating and diverse range of material held within their collections. They will be adding more items soon, but for now the list includes...

• William Stukeley's Life of Newton
• Thomas Paine's iron brid...

They include, among other things...

• Three YouTube Channels...
  • Wellcome Film: a channel at YouTube where they are posting archival medical films and films about the archive e.g. Cruel Kindness are films from the 1960s about childhood obesity
    
    http://www.youtube.com/wellcomefilm#p/p.
  • Wellcome Trust: Videos of the research that the Wellco...

"Snow crystals," Ukichiro Nakaya wrote in 1939, "may be called letters sent from heaven."

The Japanese physicist spent his life studying snowflakes, eventually becoming the first to create an artificial snow crystal in the laboratory.

Take a close look at this slide show at http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/12/the-unbelievable-world-of-snowflakes.php. 

As the head of the Institute for the Promotion of the Less than One Millimetre, Dutch photographer Wim von Egmond has created the Micropolitan Museum of Microscopic Art Forms, an online gallery of all creatures tiny and tinier.

To gather his collection, von Egmond sampled organisms from anywhere he could find water, scooping up the microscopic creatures from puddles and ditches as well as the ocean. From desmids to diatoms, he has captured all the stunning features of these normally invis...