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MSP2 Resources

Resources for Math/Science

Green Thumb Challenge 2010

US DOE Opportunity Creates Teacher Scientists

Cells Without A Microscope

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Connecting News to National Science Education Standards

What’s Happening to Polar Bears? Real Data, Claims, and Evidence

Middle Level Students and ‘Abilities Necessary to Do Scientific Inquiry’

Put on a Happy Face!

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Teacher Leaders: MSP2 Hosts

MSP2 Teacher Leaders assist the community in a variety of ways and serve as hosts and facilitators.

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Suzanne Geyer, Marianne Bursi and Dan Pooler joined Middle School Portal

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Mary Henton replied to Mary Henton's discussion 'Science behind Olympic sports'

Hello, All, We've got a bit of cross-posting here, so am going to try and make sure that the other conversation around NBCLearns Olympic games activities shows up here as well. If you respond to either conversation, would you be willing to make dou…

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Mary Henton replied to Kristy Templar's discussion 'NBClearn about the Olympic Videos'

The folks at NBCLearn were very prompt in responding to the question about the experiments. Apparently here were problems with the appearance in the video player. The activities can be located at the NBC News Archives on Demand site, www.archives.nb…

8 hours ago

Jennifer Fee commented on Kim Lightle's event 'Building Student Math and Science Skills and Knowledge through Real-World Bird Data'

I'm really looking forward to hosting this webinar, and hope you will join me!

8 hours ago

Mary Henton replied to Kristy Templar's discussion 'NBClearn about the Olympic Videos'

Hi, Kristy, I set a message to the Support folks at NBCLearn to see if we can get an answer. Will let you know as soon as I hear anything. M

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Tom Jenkins replied to Tom Jenkins's discussion 'eTECH 2010 Conference Notes and Ideas'

Hot Potatoes Testing Software Ray Stewart Completely Free Integrates into Moodle seemlessly Can turn quiz into an html to create an interactive webpage that students can use without having the Hot Potatoes program or any plug in on the computers.…

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Tom Jenkins replied to Tom Jenkins's discussion 'eTECH 2010 Conference Notes and Ideas'

Moodle in the Middle School Classroom (National Trail School) (Session I) Why Use it? Increase Efficiency Free Great Grading Software Any Device with Internet Access Keep Parents, Teachers, and Students in the loop Can personalize Link other…

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Picture of the Day from Science360 News Service

Mammatus Clouds

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Mammatus clouds, pouch-like formations that are generally found protruding from the underside of cumulonimbus clouds. However, they can also develop underneath cirrocumulus, altostratus, altocumulus and stratocumulus. In the U.S., mammatus occurring in cumulonimbus clouds are more common and are often indicative of a particularly strong - or even tornadic - storm.

Image credit: ©University Corporation for Atmospheric Research