BioInteractive

At BioInteractive you can find multimedia resources, including apps, short films, holiday lectures, virtual labs, interactive turorials on particular topics, a wide range of documents for use in the classrooms, and teacher guides.

An amazing tool to bring the excitement of scientific discovery into your classroom.

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive

Frontiers for Young Minds

Frontiers for Young Minds is an open access scientific journal. It provides a collection of free avalilable scientific articles shaped for younger audiences by the input of their own young peers. The articles can be sorted by subject area or by keyword.

Visit:

https://kids.frontiersin.org/

Sick Science™

Sick Science™ is a trademark of Steve Spangler, inc. Steve Spangler is a celebrity teacher, science toy designer, speaker, author and an Emmy award-winning television personality. On his YouTube channel you can fin smart videos for curious minds of all ages. An amazing free resource for parents & teachers.

Visit:

https://www.youtube.com/user/SteveSpanglerScience/featured

#StPatricksDay2018

Known as the Apostle of Ireland, Saint Patrick is the primary patron saint of Ireland. Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick is a cultural and religious celebration occurring annually on 17 March.

St. Patrick features in many stories in the Irish oral tradition and there are many customs connected with his feast day. 

There are also many educational resources to learn more about him and about Irish culture:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8204987.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/saints/patrick_1.shtml

http://www.irelandseye.com/paddy/saint_pat.html

http://edu.symbaloo.com/embed/stpatricksdayfun

Saint Patrick's Day ideas, activities and crafts on Pinterest:

https://es.pinterest.com/momto2poshdivas/st-patrick-s-day/

https://es.pinterest.com/sped_2/st-patrick-s-day-ideas/

https://es.pinterest.com/janamarie76/st-patrick-s-day-preschool-activities/

STEM careers and caring responsibilities

Women with a STEM degree are less likely than their male counterparts to work in a STEM occupation. 

This video reflects one factor that contributes to the discrepancy of women and men in STEM jobs: the impact of caring responsibilities.

Storium

Storium is a creative writing game developed by Protagonist Labs, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay area. Storium can help you build your skills as a writer, exercise your creative juices, meet new people, and have a blast along the way. It is free to play. It works on your comuputer, tablet or smartphone.

Visit:

https://storium.com/

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/storium

On Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/playstorium

Photos for Class

Photos for Class is a place to access safe images that are available to be used in the classroom and for educational purposes. 

All photos shown are licensed by Creative Commons for public use. All of the downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms (name of the author, name of the photo, a link to the original photo and the name and type of licence along with a link to read it).

Find it on:

http://photosforclass.com/

The Public Domain Review

Founded in 2011, the PDR is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. As its name suggests, the focus is on works which have now fallen into the public domain.

Visit The Public Domain Review on:

http://publicdomainreview.org/

On Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/PublicDomainReview

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/publicdomainrev

On Pinterest:

http://pinterest.com/publicdomainrev/

On YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/PublicDomainReview

On Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/publicdomainrev/

On Tumblr:

http://publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/

March 8 #IWD. Women of the world, unite!

Explore women’s activism from generations past and present through this timeline by UNWomen.

Visit:

http://interactive.unwomen.org/multimedia/timeline/womenunite/en/index.html#/