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In this activity, students further explore the short film Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn, by working through the mathematical concepts behind George Beadle's claim that teosinte is the wild ancestor of maize.

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Empowering Educators. Inspiring Students. Real science, real stories, and real data to engage students in exploring the living world.

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Resources for biology students that include worksheets, labs, and student activities. Find everything you need for your biology lessons here!!

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Paul has provided training for students, teachers, administrators, and professors around the world. Paul's specialties include the Next Generation Science Standards, educational technology, the flipped classroom, and effective classroom design. In addition to his work as a trainer Paul is an accomplished keynote speaker.

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Students often ask why science knowledge matters. With environmental science, the answer should be clear. While we cannot predict all of the major issues that the next generation will have to face, we know that among them will be issues related to the environment. As the National Science Board states, "The environment is a critical element of the knowledge base we need to live in a safe and prosperous world." Today's students will one day have to participate as citizens in making decisions regarding the environment, decisions that will be of lasting importance to themselves, their children and grandchildren, the nation, and of course, the planet.

However, teaching environmental science can be challenging. It is a cross-disciplinary field that draws on physics, biology, chemistry, geology, in addition to the social sciences. Few educators - not to mention few scientists - have extensive expertise in all these fields. There is, though, a wealth of resources available to teachers online to make your job easier. It is also critical to rely on the community of your peers. Our website is designed to help you find the resources you need and to connect you with teachers around the country to enable you to share ideas and expertise.

This section of our website provides access to resources collected and developed by the Environmental Literacy Council for teachers. Click the appropriate category at right to access our teaching modules and a variety of classroom materials ranging from links to all-around great sites for kids to practice exams and programs connecting classrooms around the world.

For classroom-related resources on a specific environmental topic, please see our essays. Each includes the very best links we've found to help students and teachers explore the topic. (To navigate through our essays - click the circles at left)

Environmental Connections will assist you in teaching about the environment, whatever your class subject! The guide will help you and your students find balanced, science-based resources that enable you to examine environmental issues in greater depth.

For each summary, the authors have located a range of resources that will be helpful in researching the topic, including textbooks that cover the scientific concept in depth; online and print articles that explain the topic in clear, simple terms; sources of data for further analysis; and articles from scientific journals that present the current state of scientific understanding.

The completely revised 2nd edition of Environmental Connections has:

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New & Updated Resource Recommendations - Including Pertinent Legislation and Policy

Expanded Topics: Transportation, Urbanization and Land Use Planning, and Environmental and Resource Economics

Expanded Historical Background on American Attitudes Toward the Environment

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Our teaching resources are always in development and we welcome your feedback. If you have found a good online lab or activity you think we should add to our links, please let us know. To share your own lessons and teaching ideas with colleagues, please see our Teacher Exchange.

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ChemCollective Resources

The ChemCollective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests. Teachers can use our content for pre-labs, for alternatives to textbook homework, and for in-class activities for individuals or teams. Students can review and learn chemistry concepts using our virtual labs, simulations, and tutorials. The ChemCollective is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon who are interested in using, assessing, and creating engaging online activities for chemistry education.

Chemistry resources for high schools impacted by COVID-19

The following free resources may be especially useful for online teaching of high school chemistry courses.

Open Learning Initative (OLI) General Chemistry I and II are complete online courseware for AP and college level chemistry. Each module includes short amounts of text, interactive worked examples, scaffolded practice problems, and assessments. The integration of these components provides a seamless and interactive learning experience for your students. The courseware also provides instructors with data on student performance, which they can use to adapt their instruction to student needs.

NGSS Chemistry Modules These online materials for a first course in chemistry aim to teach and reinforce chemistry concepts in the context of real-world scenarios, while incorporating virtual lab activities and strengthening student application of NGSS practices.

ChemCollective virtual labs The virtual labs hosted here allow students to design and carry out their own experiments. You can provide experimental procedures to your students or allow them to invent their own. The autograded labs create unknowns and provide feedback on students answers. Please contact for information on how to best use these with your students.

You can get immediate access to the open-and-free versions of General Chemistry I and General Chemistry II. To access the NGSS materials, please follow the instructions on chemvlab.orb. (At present, you need to sign up for an account and wait for approval, but we are working on ways to allow immediate access for evaluation. A single free account gets you free access to the NGSS materials along with General Chemistry I and II.)
A recording from our webinar on March 16 is available here. A discussion of the virtual lab starts at about 29:00. The earlier portions give an overview of the OLI General Chemistry I and II courseware. We also created an editable google doc to provide additional information on virtual labs, and help instructors collaborate on use of these labs.

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The ChemCollective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests. Teachers can use our content for pre-labs, for alternatives to textbook homework, and for in-class activities for individuals or teams. Students can review and learn chemistry concepts using our virtual labs, simulations, and tutorials.

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By converting our sims to HTML5, we make them seamlessly available across platforms and devices. Whether you have laptops, iPads, chromebooks, or BYOD, your favorite PhET sims are always right at your fingertips.Become part of our mission today, and transform the learning experiences of students everywhere!

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MW is not just a collection of simulations -do not be deceived by first glance. While it presents many existing simulations that are ready to use in the classroom, it is, however, also a modeling tool for teachers and students to create their own simulations and share them with collaborators. There are very sophisticated modeling capacities hidden behind its simple user interface that empower you to create new simulations and even explore the unknowns. (Because of the experimental and computational nature of this kind of simulations, we prefer to call them computational experiments.)

Create Your Own Curriculum Modules

A simulation without instructional support is difficult for students to use. An optimal way of using simulations is to embed them into curriculum materials. MW has an authoring system for teachers and curriculum developers to create or customize their own online lessons that use models and simulations. A typical MW module is a comprehensive learning package consisting of a series of scaffolded pages that contain text, simulations, tools, controls, graphs, navigation links, and embedded assessments. The user interfaces of simulations in MW can be customized for students of different levels (grades 6-16). This unique feature enables it to support a wide range of instructional strategies such as inquiry-based, discovery-based, and problem-based learning.

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Molecular Workbench provides visual, interactive computational experiments for teaching and learning science.

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This site has been developed primarily as a resource for UO chemistry instructors, but high school and college chemistry and physical science instructors can find a lot of useful information here too. Come on in and look around! Let's do some demos. But remember...be careful and WEAR YOUR GOGGLES!
"Do not do demos unless you are an experienced chemist!"

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This site has been developed primarily as a resource for UO chemistry instructors, but high school and college chemistry and physical science instructors can find a lot of useful information here too. Come on in and look around! Let's do some demos. But remember...be careful and WEAR YOUR GOGGLES!

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These guides are companion activities to the Energy Infobooks. They are available on four reading levels that correspond to the infobooks and include Teacher Guides and answer keys for general energy information, energy sources, electricity, and conservation.

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Flipping Physics with Billy, Bobby, and Bo

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Have you tried a Concept Builder lately? You should. This growing collection of cognitively-rich exercises will focus student attention on discrete learning goals. Filled with interactive elements, this section is the perfect tool for getting students thinking about the meaning of concepts. Perfect for students and 1:1 classrooms using iPads, Chromebooks, and the like. And for Chemistry types, we've added a large collection of Chemistry Concept Builders.

Minds On Physics - Version 5 is the HTML5 version of Minds On Physics that replaces our App and Legacy versions. Relying on a large bank of carefully crafted questions, Minds On Physics seeks to improve students' conceptions of physics. "MOPs" combines interactive questioning modules with a thorough, question-specific Help system to engage students in an exercise in thinking, reflecting and learning. Version 5 is our best-yet version of Minds On Physics. There is a fully functional free version and a paid version that integrates seamlessly with our Task Tracker system and offers some rather enticing features.

Version 2 of the Calculator Pad is now available. Our newest version includes >2500 Physics and Chemistry problems organized into >250 ready-to-use problem sets. Numerical information is randomly-generated. An answer box allows students to solve and check their answers. Most problems are accompanied by an audio-guided solution that explains how to solve a similar problem while hilighting the habits that can be adopted for solving any problem. Teachers with Task Tracker accounts can modify problems and problem sets and even create their own problems. Task Tracker also allows teachers to assign problems to their students and track their progress.

Concept Checkers were built to coordinate with the Physics Interactives section of our website. Relying upon our Task Tracker tool to deliver questions, check answers, and track student progress, a Concept Checker is designed to coordinate with an interactive simulation. Use it as a follow-up check to understanding after exploring the simulation. Most sims are accompanied by a Concept Checker. Some sims have Task Tracker code built into the simulation. But not all sims will have a Concept Checker. Concept Checkers can be used with or without a Task Tracker account.

The Science Reasoning Center is our most recent upgrade. This section (once complete) will include more than 50 activities that are perfect for encouraging scientific reasoning skills. Students use science and engineering practices, combined with cross cutting science concepts and core ideas from the disciplines of physics (and chemistry) to analyze phenomenon, experiments, and data presentations. NOTE: We broke ground in April of 2023; we should have a large portion of content available by August of 2023. We will continue work throughout the 2023-24 school year.

A collection of pages with questions and answers/explanations which serve as reviews or practice. Each review complements a chapter from The Physics Classroom Tutorial.

A variety of question-and-answer pages which target specific concepts and skills. Topics range from the graphical analysis of motion and drawing free body diagrams to a discussion of vectors and vector addition.

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