We hope you had a fantastic summer and are ready to jump back into another exciting school year. While you've been soaking up the sun, the Science NetLinks team as been hard at work creating new resources for your classroom. Welcome back to school!
Oil Refining: A Closer Look
Energy is a hot topic these days. Would you like to help your students understand more about the science involved? Science NetLinks has developed a new interactive for students to explore how and why oil is transformed into energy and all its usable forms. They will be introduced to the history of petroleum and the chemistry of how it is refined from crude oil to everything from the gas in your car to the road you drive it on.
This interactive is part of the Energy in a High-Tech World collection created to examine the science behind energy and oil refining. Find lessons about chemical engineers, social needs and technological developments, and energy transformations.
Science Books & Films ONLINE
The AAAS publication Science Books & Films (SB&F) is going completely online! SB&F has been reviewing science materials for librarians, teachers, general audiences, and students from kindergarten through college since 1965. It is the only critical review journal devoted to science resources, evaluating nearly 1,000 books, videos and DVDs, and software packages every year.
The new SB&F Online offers weekly reviews, a searchable database holding 14 years of review materials, topical bibliographies, monthly newsletters, Best Books lists, an Editor's Blog, classroom lessons, author interviews, and much more. Visit www.sbfonline.com for a preview of the new site and subscription information.
New Lessons!
Want to know how human vision compares to technology in measuring balls and strikes at a baseball game? In Seeing Eye to Eye with the Umpire, students will be introduced the human eye as a measurement tool and compare optical parts with camera parts that perform similar functions.
Allergies (especially to food) and asthma are two subjects familiar at schools. The Asthma and Allergies lesson was created to help students understand these two health conditions and the immune system's role in the functioning of a human body.
Anyone can be a writer and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) wants to give people the opportunity to celebrate that idea. They have set up a website called the National Gallery of Writing where people can submit one entry that is important to them be it a letter, a memoir, or even a text message. The Gallery is currently accepting submissions and will open to viewing on the National Day on Writing October 20, 2009.
AAAS is proud to have a National Partner Gallery and we encourgage you and your students to share pieces about how science writing has inspired, provoked, or informed each of you. What are their favorite science books? Did you have a favorite growing up or one that changed your views on science as an adult? Visit the AAAS Gallery and tell us about it!
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