OSGC Educational Resources Blog

Responding to evidence that Hispanics are underrepresented in science careers in the United States, Earth & Sky, -“a clear voice for science” – on radio and web – requested and has now received a major grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to produce 600 science radio spots in Spanish over the next three years.

A community-based Website for Cielo y Tierra will launch in early 2008. Like the Earth & Sky website at http://www.earthsky.org/  , it will feature science news, blogs and daily sky information – all in Spanish. Updates regarding the new website will be available soon.

Five sample shows of Cielo y Tierra are available at the following link. http://www.earthsky.org/extra/50608/spanish

Today’s pressing environmental problems need innovative solutions.  Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History invite students in grades 6-10 to submit their winning innovations in the “youinnovate21…It’s Your Environment” challenge.

To enter, students need to write a 300-500 word essay explaining the environmental problem they want to solve, their idea, how it will solve the problem , and how they would let people know about the innovation.  Winning innovations will be selected based on creativity, scientific and practical soundness, writing skills.

The deadline for entries is December 15. Students may enter as an individual or as a class. For complete contest rules, click on the You Innovate button at http://scholastic.com/scienceexplorations

BioEd Online provides a series of educational units for grades 4-8 highlighting each of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s (NSBRI) research areas. Subsequent units, developed by Baylor College of Medicine, will give students the opportunity to investigate each NSBRI research area.

Established in 1997 through a NASA competition, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute is a consortium of 12 institutions working to prevent or solve health problems related to long-duration space travel and prolonged exposure to microgravity. The group’s primary mission objective is to ensure safe and productive human space flight.

Lesson Plans are availabe as downloadable PDF files. Please visit the website at the following link http://www.bioedonline.org/resources/nsbri.cfm  

BioEd Online offers slides, lesson plans and activities to translate cutting-edge information into the classroom. Developed by Baylor College of Medicine, site also includes streaming video presentations.

Recent topics included water cycles and nutrition, as well as answering such questions as why our ears pop and what causes an ice cream headache. For more information, go to  http://www.bioedonline.org/k-5/