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Science In the Know Now 06/16/2012

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:35:00 +0000

The Brain: The Troublesome Bloom of Autism | Mental Health | DISCOVER Magazine

tags: brain autism mental health Courchesne Neuroscience research neuroscientist

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Science In the Know Now 02/06/2012

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:34:00 +0000

EdNET Insight | States To Lead Effort To Write New Science Standards

press release for the 20 states charged with writing the new Common Core Science Standards.

tags: insight states science standards ngss Education Kansas CommonCore
Next Generation Science Standards

information about the process and product of the the "Next Generation Science Standards". Kansas is one of the 20 states given the job of developing new common core standards

tags: science standards ngss Education CommonCore Kansas
Science & Stories: Integrating Science and Literature, Grades 4-6 - Hilarie N. Staton, Tara McCarthy - Google Books

Lesson 3: Cycles of Change uses Drylongso as the literature springboard for learning about drought, seasonal change, overcoming environmental challenges

tags: virginia_hamilton jerry_pickney book children's literature environmental_disaster science drought Drylongso trade_book literacy_programs family multiculturalideas and content teacher stories integrating literature books google books google
Teacher to Teacher: Multicultural Books in Family Literacy Programs

" Drylongso, written by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, is a bit longer picture book than most. The story of an African-American farm family living through a recent drought, Drylongso evokes old legends and folk heroes and makes history feel like a living, breathing part of our beings. If you've not read any books of Virginia Hamilton, considered by some to be our country's best children's author, this would be a wonderful place to start. Young girls especially will like the winsome character of Lindy. "

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DRYLONGSO by Virginia Hamilton, Jerry Pinkney | Kirkus Book Reviews

the complete Kirkus Review

tags: virginia_hamilton jerry_pickney book book reviews reviews Kirkus Reviews children's literature trade_book Drylongso drought science environmental_disaster

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Science In the Know Now 01/26/2012

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:35:00 +0000

From Conservation to Crowdsourcing: A Typology of Citizen Science

tags: conservation crowdsourcing citizen science

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Science In the Know Now 01/12/2012

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:35:00 +0000

Primary Connections: Linking science with literacy

tags: primary science literacy elementary science

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Science In the Know Now 01/05/2012

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:35:00 +0000

Who Knew They Could Be So Dense?

tags: science elementary middleschool discrepant event

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Science In the Know Now 01/04/2012

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:35:00 +0000

ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News

Interesting read > R @JHerbertArtist: #Neuroscience Versus The Law http://t.co/Pp1vRQ2v

tags: Neuroscience

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Science In the Know Now 12/22/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:34:00 +0000

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Science In the Know Now 12/15/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:34:00 +0000

CK12.ORG - FlexBooks

tags: ebooks textbooks curriculum opensource ck12 math science flexbooks

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Science In the Know Now 11/28/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:34:00 +0000

A Sense of Scale : Visualising the Big and the Small | The Whiteboard Blog

tags: sense scale whiteboard blog education science math
Welcome to Easy Java Simulations home page

input your data here and create a java simulation

tags: java simulations opensource physics analysis modeling data tool program science software
Data Tool Program

tags: data tool program opensource software modeling analysis physics science
Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool

tags: software Interactives tracker video analysis modeling simulations tool opensource physics science
Open Source Physics

here is how your tax dollars work to help teachers, parents, and life-long learners

tags: physics science opensource simulations physique física Interactives software

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Science In the Know Now 11/27/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:35:00 +0000

BBC Nature Video Collections | The Whiteboard Blog

tags: bbc nature video collections science biology

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Science In the Know Now 11/25/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:35:00 +0000

Veritasium Science Videos: Atomic Rant

showing atoms at a different level...a rant

tags: science videos

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Science In the Know Now 11/24/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:34:00 +0000

Kids' Games, Animals, Photos, Stories, and More -- National Geographic Kids

various games and other interactive activities to help children learn.

tags: science geography kids animals social studies Resources socialstudies education National_Geographic

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Science In the Know Now 11/09/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:34:00 +0000

ENCHANTED LEARNING HOME PAGE

tags: resources education science teaching lessons reference interacitve

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Science In the Know Now 10/20/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:35:00 +0000

A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: Thousands of Science Fair Project Ideas! Find Them on These 25 Web Sites

tags: media specialist guide internet web sites ideas project science thousands

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Science In the Know Now 10/18/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:35:00 +0000

Complete List of Google Earth Activities

tags: googleearth science activities education earth technology Google_Earth google

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Science In the Know Now 10/07/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:35:00 +0000

National Schools Partnership - Developing innovative educational resources for you and your school

this a motherlode, yet some are sponsored by businesses.

tags: Resources teaching literacy FREE tools science

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Science In the Know Now 09/21/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:35:00 +0000

Symphony of Science - the Quantum World! - YouTube

tags: symphony science quantum world

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Science In the Know Now 09/15/2011

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:35:00 +0000

Become an online math or science tutor at TutaPoint.com

tags: TutaPoint.com online math science tutor

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Not "gonna" Turn It Down!

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:55:00 +0000

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/technology/rich-tax-b...

"Company officials say they have no qualms about taking all the tax breaks legally available to them. To do otherwise would be like a consumer “insisting on paying full price during a store sale,” wrote Jeff Brown, a company spokesman. Even E.A.’s competitors acknowledge that its tax strategies aren’t particularly aggressive compared with others in the industry."

POINT TAKEN! Time for Congress to get to work.

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Self-Sabotage? or Self-Preservation?

noreply@blogger.com (neochonetes) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:55:00 +0000

Self-sabotage is an ongoing concern. I appreciate your take on the subject, as it provides another perspective in my ongoing efforts to use it to my benefit. I’ve read some of this research about the fixed and incremental theories of ability, yet this take is interesting. So, I’m wondering if the point is “Never give up! Never surrender!”?

Amplify’d from blogs.berkeley.edu

One of my students reached out to me after lecture the other day. He noticed that I was low on energy, even a bit down. I had been trying to hide it, but was truly disappointed that attendance in the class was so low that day. We were covering one of the central topics of the course–

the importance of focusing on adopting an incremental rather than a fixed view of ability and intelligence. To summarize: believing that your ability is fixed is great when the course material is easy (“I’m brilliant!”), but puts students at risk for disengagement when the material is hard and when one doesn’t do well (“I suck; why come to class anyway?”). By contrast, if you believe your ability is something to nurture and grow, those same academic challenges become indicators of growth and development.

As I thought about the poorly attended lecture on the ride home, I realized something. I have been expecting that the incremental message should be enough to motivate my students to do the little, doable things, like coming to class or section, that slowly build up to success. And it dawned on me that it the issue here may not be that the students haven’t been listening to the message about incremental learning, but rather, that they’ve been listening closely.

A recent study by Niiya, Brook, and Crocker, published in 2010

identified study participants whose self-esteem was tied to getting good grades — in other words, people who were invested in doing well academically. Within this group, some people believed that ability is fixed (the entity theorists) and others believed that ability is nurtured through effort (the incremental theorists).

These findings show us that even when we believe that our abilities are the result of our effort- a mindset I have urged my students to adopt– we are not out of the woods when it comes to academic motivation. The knowledge that our effort (as opposed to our genetics) is tied to our abilities can be threatening precisely because it’s in our hands, and incredibly, puts us at risk for self-sabotaging our own success to protect ourselves– just in case our efforts are not enough.
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