Online Science and Virtual Labs With Your Host: Dr. Julia Parra Featuring Amy Ewing & Dr. Kemi Jona
What is a Myofibril?
What is an immediate take-away from this webconferencing we just did?
Online Science Course Showcase Let’s go take a peek at some online science courses :) BIOLOGY SEMESTER 1 GEOLOGY SEMESTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO CELL BIOLOGY SEM 1 EARTH SCIENCE (6TH GRADE) SEMESTER 1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE SEMESTER 1
Amy Ewing Teacher, Las Cruces High School eTeacher, IDEAL-NM, Chemistry B.A., NMSU, Secondary General Science Education M.A. NM Tech, Master of Science Teaching
Best Practices Take the time to create an address book. Make yourself available for chat, but recognize science can be difficult to explain via chat. Assign students to tally discussion posts. Have students post days off/holidays to the discussion board.
Give your students activities they can learn from by being able to interact. Balancing equations: Rube Goldberg device: Virtual Lab at Virtlab: Chemistry (Plastics, PCR, polymers), Physics (transistors, lasers, circuits) and Biology (Pavlov’s Dog, Malaria, The Cell, DNA and RNA): Interaction is Important
Online Science Course Showcase Amy’s online science course in action :)
Focus on Virtual Labs Online science issues/debate o AP Science accreditation o Can labs really be done online?
Kemi Jona, PhD Northwestern University Conducting R&D on advanced learning technologies since 1989 Research Associate Professor, Learning Sciences and Computer Science in School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University Director, Office of STEM Education Partnerships Strategic advisor on learning technologies & STEM education to education, government, and private sector organizations
Advantages of The iLab Network Broadens access to expensive or delicate high-end equipment Provides students with access to remotely-hosted science lab facilities rather than just local ones More time on task / less setup & cleanup More experimental runs Safer Can do labs before and after class, at home – not limited to 50 min class period Share & compare data locally or globally – just like scientists do Enables new economic models and public/private partnerships for provisioning lab equipment for schools
Radioactivity Lab Curriculum written by Northwestern University and pilot tested by over 1000 students is available for general use NOW Contact us for teacher materials and professional development Four new curriculum adaptations of the original Radioactivity iLab Curriculum for biology, chemistry, AP Physics, and math written by Chicago-area high school teachers What we have available for high schools now
Online & Virtual Labs Resources
Elementary Resources Brain Pop Free Stuff Internet Science Adventures Field Trip Earth
Middle School Resources Science Pirates Brain Pop Free Stuff General Science Resources for Middle School Scienceinquirer
High School Resources Watershed Dynamics (GIS) GLOBE Watershed Dynamics Project Site watersheds My World GIS iLabs (Remote online labs) Northwestern University Late Nite Labs (Chemistry Lab Simulations PhET Interactive Simulations The ChemCollective Genetics Online Virtual Labs dex.html dex.html
Discovery Education - Check out the Programs and Free Tools Products & Services, Free 30-day trial, subscription based, Teacher Center has a Mythbusters series. Planet Earth is there too! Check out the Featured Series or do a search Smithsonian Education Online Learninghttp://smithsonianeducation.orghttp://smithsonianeducation.org Direct to Science & Technology - ans/science_technology.html ans/science_technology.html One World Journeys - Other Cool Stuff
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Game Resources 10 Sources of Educational Science Games sources-of-educational-science-games.html sources-of-educational-science-games.html Planet Science science.com/wired/index.html?page=/wired/games /index.html science.com/wired/index.html?page=/wired/games /index.html Brand new EdGames