EMU : Center for Research on the Internet and Schools

MAME Regional Workshop

Michigan media specialists attended a free workshop on Saturday, May 14 from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at the Washtenaw County ISD.

The workshop was the first in a series under a National Science Foundation Grant to develop professional development models for "training the trainer" to help teachers using the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) . See below for handouts and Web links to sites used in the workshop.

AGENDA

9:30-9:45 Welcome and introductions
9:45-10:10 Presentation: International Research in SLM
10:10-10:30 Presentation: Introduction to science digital resources
10:30-10:40 Break
10:40-11:00 Hands-on: Free and guided exploration of resources
11:00-11:20 Presentation: Overview of Instructional Architect
11:20-11:40 Hands-on: Group breakoutto explore IA
11:40-12:00 Presentation: Taking it deeper: What you can do with IA
12:00-12:20 Hands-on: Group breakout by grade levels to construct with IA
12:20-12:30 Debrief

RESOURCE LINKS

International research (Marcia Mardis) - Adobe .pdf file handout
Resource presentation (Ellen Hoffman) - PowerPoint file handout
Instructional Architect (Nancy Copeland) - Powerpoint file

NSDL Tools: Instructional Architect

Main IA site http://ia.usu.edu/

Example http://ia.usu.edu//viewproject.php?project=ia:1145

NSDL Exploration: Digital libraries for K-12

Science News for Kids http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/

Biology: Frogs, birds, animals

Spring peepers
- http://www.naturesound.com/frogs/pages/peeper.html
- http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/spring_peeper.htm
Frog Dissection Lab http://froggy.lbl.gov/virtual/
Cornell Woodpecker site http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/
Bird sound library at Cornell http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/
Animal Diversity Web http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

Earth and weather

Exploring Earth animations http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/home.cfm
UCAR Library of Digital Images - Weather, climate, earth system
https://www.fin.ucar.edu/ucardil/default.jsp
DLESE (earth science library) http://www.dlese.org

Space and Mars

Sky and Telescope: Mars lander rediscovered http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1509_1.asp
Mars Exploration from NASA http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/students.html

Archaeology, anatomy, and forensics

National Geographic special http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/tut/index.html
eSkeletons http://www.eskeletons.org
Virtual forensics lab http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/forensicfiles/index2.html

Science videos and sounds in the classroom

Teachers Domain from PBS http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Library of Congress: Moving Image Collection (MIC) http://mic.loc.gov/index.php
Science song samples http://www.science-groove.org/MASSIVE

Math and numbers

The biggest prime number http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20050323/Note3.asp
Primos Curios http://primes.utm.edu/curios/home.php
Virtual Library of Math Manipulatives http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm
WISweb http://www.fi.uu.nl/wisweb/welcome_en.html

Some material in this presentation courtesy of The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE 0435098.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.