National 4-H Curriculum New Curriculum: What's On Your Plate?: Exploring Food Science The latest National 4-H Curriculum title examines food science with a collection of hands-on experiments-you-can-eat. National 4-H Curriculum focuses on 4-H’s three primary mission mandates: science, healthy living, and citizenship. State 4-H programs within the Cooperative Extension System, 4-H National Headquarters at USDA, and National 4-H Council provide leadership for the development of National 4-H Curriculum. Curriculum Titles View All Titles Smallpeice Trust: Engineering Games Want to find out about the exciting ways engineering affects our lives? Then have a go at our new Bio-Dome, Bridge Builder and Colour Matching games. Each game lasts 10-20 minutes and can be played in a single player practice mode or competitively with others.
Good at games: mobile learning proves a hit in schools | Classroom innovation Play school: Oakdale school in east London has harnessed children's love of games to make learning fun. © Zak Waters Today's teachers can be split into two groups: those who confiscate gadgets and those who give them out. Mobile phones, palmtop computers, flip video cameras – even games consoles – have all become part of the classroom furniture in recent years and are helping to establish mobile learning as a teaching method in its own right. One such convert to the educational qualities of mobile devices is Dawn Hallybone, an ICT subject leader and year 6 teacher at Oakdale junior school in Redbridge, east London. Oakdale is a progressive school. At lunchtime, the year 6 pupils operate the school reception, answering the phone and greeting visitors. The school has 350 children and 30 Nintendo DS Lites. It is a form of learning by stealth, says Hallybone. "You might show them a picture and point out something that's really nice. But there are less prosaic reasons, too.
Clouds at Saturn’s north pole form huge circular and hexagonal storms Saturn is a gas giant planet. That means two things: It has a tremendously thick gaseous atmosphere, tens of thousands of kilometers deep (Earth’s is a mere hundred kilometers in depth, for comparison); and it’s big. So when it does things, it does them on an inhumanly vast scale. Even knowing this, though, I was unprepared mentally to comprehend this picture taken by the Cassini spacecraft of clouds circling over Saturn’s north pole. Holy Haleakala! Saturn rotates once every 10.5 hours, so its day is less than half the length of ours on Earth. This vortex, as it’s called, is huge: over 2000 kilometers (1200 miles) across, if I’ve determined the scale of this picture correctly. And it’s in the center of a far-larger, even more astonishing structure called Saturn’s north pole hexagon: Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute How flippin’ strange is that? By the way, these aren’t pictures from last month or a few weeks ago: They were taken yesterday, on Nov. 27!
50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry. They are wrong. K-12 teachers have taken advantage of Twitter’s format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies. The following projects provide you and your students with 50 ways to Twitter in the classroom to create important and lasting lessons. 1. One of the simplest ways that teachers can use Twitter in the classroom involves setting up a feed dedicated exclusively to due dates, tests or quizzes. 2. Subscribe to different mainstream and independent news feeds with different biases as a way to compare and contrast how different perspectives interpret current events and issues. 3. Set up an interesting assignment requesting that students set up Twitter for education lists following feeds relevant to their career goals and keep a daily journal on any trends that crop up along the way. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Nuclear reactor and power plant simulation Introduction This is not a lesson like the others in Radioactivity and Atomic Physics Explained but it fits in well with the lesson on nuclear power. It is a very sophisticated simulation of a pressurised water reactor (PWR), which is the most common type of nuclear power reactor in the US but not in Europe, though the principles are very similar. Using the tour There is a comprehensive tour which goes through the workings of the reactor, starting from a consumer of electrical energy and working backwards to the reactor core itself. You can restart the tour at any time using the button at the top left of the screen. Hint numbers Each part of the simulation has a hint number that you can click to see a description of its function. The skill test Once you're familiar with how to use the reactor you can see whether you can control the reactor so that the power output matches the demand from the city. Back to Summary of Radioactivity and Atomic Physics Explained
The Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags For Education What is a hashtag? A word or phrase preceded by a “#.” How do hashtags work? Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets–and thus lots of “noise.” A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. Picture it like a magnet that attracts all messages categorized by that topical word or phrase. See also 50 Of The Best Education Accounts On Twitter Who can use hashtags? Anyone. What else do I need to know? Don’t hashtag spam–if your tweet doesn’t add to that hashtag’s topic, discussion, or user base, don’t add the hashtag.Use more than one hashtag if it applies to more than one topic, but choose wisely. Meeting Times Many of the hashtags have “meeting times” where educators agree to “meet and tweet”–that is, send out messages on a topic at a certain time on a certain day. If you do participate at the agreed upon time, you’ll see the tweets stream in live and participate in said conversation (via twitter) in what is nearly real-time. Popular Hashtags Trends General Literacy
PowerUp Game Story If any one out there is listening, Planet Helios is being destroyed and we need your help! Hundreds of years ago the nations of our planet realized that the side effects from burning fossil fuels for energy were damaging the atmosphere and changing the climate. They joined together to develop and build technologies to create electricity from available renewable energy resources like wind, sun and water power. Meanwhile the planet's citizens–our ancestors– pulled together and pledged to use less energy. This ushered in a Golden Age of energy balance and ecological harmony. But a few generations later energy was plentiful, clean and cheap and conservation was no longer in fashion. Now the damage has been re–done, and then some! Play PowerUp today and prove it's NOT too late!
Earth Day Carol | Reduce, Reuse, Recycle A Noise Level Meter built for the Classroom. | Too Noisy 8 Great Word Patterns Diagnostic Elementary Nutrition Education - Childhood Health, Obesity Prevention, Nutrition Tools for Teachers, Elementary Schools, Parents Involvement, School- Home Partnerships Welcome Health & Nutrition Providers and Professional Educators Nourish Interactive is a completely free, English and Spanish website that provides nutrition educators and healthcare providers with a variety of interactive nutrition tools to assist you in teaching the key elements of nutrition to children and parents. We designed the website so that the parents’ webpages and nutrition tools complement the children’s games and nutritional messages. Each one of our computer games has free nutrition lesson plans. We provide a website that supports using technology in the classroom with children while facilitating promoting nutrition in the home. This way parents and children can work together to make nutrition a key part of their everyday lives. See This Month's Special Features for Teachers and Health Educators! Educator's Tools and Resources We Are proud to share with you: See a complete list of our games and what they teach. Read more about our Nutrition Education Games