Daily Favorites in Education 08/15/2012

• A great homework idea-kids teaching parents « Quantum Progress

  Give your students’ parents homework!

  tags: science education parent-communication first-day activities

• Columbia University Summer Research Program

  “The primary aim of Columbia University’s Summer Research Program for Science Teachers is to provide New York metropolitan area K-12 science teachers with sustained hands-on experience in scientific research so they can better understand the practice of science, better transmit to their students and fellow teachers a feeling for its practice.”

  tags: science education lesson-plans activities first-day

• Collaborative Learning

  “Purpose: The purpose of this self-paced annotated webliography is to identify the rationale, benefits, and challenges of collaborative learning in small-group activities and to provide faculty with tools to effectively develop, integrate, assess and evaluate collaborative activities “

  tags: education collaboration learning teaching-strategies 21C

• Why Should You Be Scientifically Literate? (ActionBioscience)

  tags: science science-literary education

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