1. Online Science and Virtual Labs With Your Host: Dr. Julia Parra Featuring Amy Ewing & Dr. Kemi Jona

2. What is a Myofibril? http://www.science-groove.org/Now/Myofibrils.html

3. What is an immediate take-away from this webconferencing we just did?

4. Online Science Course Showcase

• Lets 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

5. 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

6. 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.

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• Give your students activities they can learn from by being able to interact .

Interaction is Important Balancing equations: http://www.mpcfaculty.net/mark_bishop/balancing_equations_tutorial.htm Rube Goldberg device: http://pbskids.org/zoom/games/goldburgertogo/rubegame.html Virtual Lab at Virtlab: http://www.virtlab.com/main.aspx Chemistry (Plastics, PCR, polymers), Physics (transistors, lasers, circuits) and Biology (Pavlovs Dog, Malaria, The Cell, DNA and RNA): http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/all_productions.php

8. Online Science Course Showcase

• Amys online science course in action :)

9. Focus on Virtual Labs

• Online science issues/debate

• • AP Science accreditation

• • Can labs really be done online?

10. 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

11. 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

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• 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 www.iLabCentral.org/radioactivity

13. Online & Virtual Labs Resources

• http://retapedia.pbworks.com/Online-Science-and-Virtual-Labs

14. Elementary Resources

• Brain Pop Free Stuff http://www.brainpop.com/free_stuff/

• Internet Science Adventures http://www.sandia.gov/ciim/ISA/

• Field Trip Earth http://www.fieldtripearth.org/

15. Middle School Resources

• Science Pirates http://sciencepirates.com/

• Brain Pop Free Stuff http://www.brainpop.com/free_stuff/

• General Science Resources for Middle School http://wwwsldirectory.com/teachf/scied.html

• Scienceinquirer http://scienceinquirer.wikispaces.com/freestuff

16. High School Resources

• Watershed Dynamics (GIS)

• • GLOBE Watershed Dynamics Project Site

• • http://www.globe.gov/projects/watersheds

• • My World GIS

• • http://myworldgis.org

• iLabs (Remote online labs) Northwestern University http://www.ilabcentral.org

• Late Nite Labs (Chemistry Lab Simulations http://www.latenitelabs.com

• PhET Interactive Simulations http://phet.colorado.edu

• The ChemCollective http://www.chemcollective.org/

• Genetics Online Virtual Labs http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/index.html

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• Discovery Education - http://www.discoveryeducation.com/

• • 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 Learning http://smithsonianeducation.org

• • Direct to Science & Technology - http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/science_technology.html

• One World Journeys - http://oneworldjourneys.com/

Other Cool Stuff

18. Music Resources

• Educational Rap http://www.educationalrap.com/music/science/

• Science Groove http://www.science-groove.org/ Make sure to fully preview these, Im glad I did

19. Game Resources

• 10 Sources of Educational Science Games http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/04/10-sources-of-educational-science-games.html

• Planet Science http://www.planet-science.com/wired/index.html?page=/wired/games/index.html

• Brand new EdGames http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/all.html