http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 04:31:14 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 04:31:14 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83964 This module was selected as the 2005 Classics Award Winner by the MERLOT Teacher Education Editorial Board for its innovative and best practices approach to cross-curricular investigation, discovery, and reflection for K-university learners. Since 1998, the Paper Project has been exploring the structure and beauty of paper. The project chronicles handmade and mouldmade paper through images produced by scanning electron microscopy and a scanning-laser confocal microscope. The content blends the world of art and science. Teaching standards addressed include K-8 visual arts, technology, and science. It reveals how science, art, and technology are entwined and would be appropriate material for cross-disciplinary integrated teaching by faculty who team teach at the middle school level. The development of this site began with a simple scientific question - What can modern microscopy tell us about paper? - and it has grown in many different directions from that point. Materials include written comparisons of old and new technology (the history of microsopes, the history of paper), step-by-step instructions for making paper, and microscopic images of paper with depth resolution or at various magnifications displayed side-by-side for easy comparison (powers of 10: 100x and 1000x). Students can use 3-D glasses to enjoy part of this site. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90909 PALS is an on-line, standards-based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79034 This site provides a collection of NSF teacher education projects that aim to increase the quality and quantity of math and science teachers. It offers examples of evaluation plans, instruments, and reports for teacher education projects in the OERL library to represent sound practices in the field. In addition, this site links to professional development modules to assist in the creation of questionnaires to use in program evaluation. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=91235 This online resource site is developed for PreK-12 educators and student teachers and features over 1400+ lessons and activities in Arts & Literature, Health & Fitness, Math, Science and Technology, and Social Studies. There is a searchable database, information on upcoming grants and conferences, and, of course, all sorts of links to the educational PBS television shows. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=671189 The Michigan Education through Learning Objects (MELO) project is a cross-disciplinary collaborative effort that has worked over the past three years to facilitate the integration of curriculum-based sequences of online learning objects (LOs) that complement classroom pedagogy in large enrollment gateway courses. MELO's goal is to enhance student learning, engagement, and persistence in college through the use of these learning objects. The materials represented in this collection are from the third year (MELO 3D) of the project. This award-winning project takes a unique approach to overcoming barriers to technology-enriched instruction by involving students (undergraduate and graduate) in addition to select faculty and staff from across different disciplines as key collaborators. By training select students and faculty to find, evaluate, adapt, create, and integrate LOs, the project facilitates the incorporation of high quality interdisciplinary and discipline-specific LOs into the curricula.The Open.Michigan collection serves as a central repository for materials created in association with the Michigan Education through Learning Objects project. The Materials tab contains training materials from the start of the projects, learning objects, survey instruments and conference abstracts from the project. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=409906 TagGalaxy is a Flickr photo browser that uses planets as a conceptual framework. Type in a tag that interests you and TagGalaxy will instantly assemble a system of planets that represent those tags. Click on a planet to browse and zoom photos. "Tag Galaxy is a 2008 thesis project from Steven Wood at the University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg. (Retina Technology Blog, 2008.)״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=82846 Technological literacy, a broad understanding of the human-designed world and our place in it, is an essential quality for all people who live in the increasingly technology-driven 21st century. This website explains what technological literacy is, why it's important, and what's being done to improve it. This National Academy of Engineering Technically Speaking website is geared for classroom teachers and others with an interest in education. The site makes the case that all Americans need to know more about our technological world and includes several hundred useful links and a new interactive quiz. Much of the material on the site is adapted from the National Academies report, Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology, the report of the Committee on Technological Literacy. The committee's work was overseen by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council. This project was made possible by the generous support of the National Science Foundation and Battelle Memorial Institute. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76669 In Spring 2001, there were 329 schools, in 15 countries participating in CIESE projects. That's more than 10,000 students worldwide. Projects deal with how much water people in other parts of the world use, asking a lot of people all over the world which traits they have to analyze whether the dominant trait occurs more frequently than the recessive trait, and collecting samples from local ponds to answer the question: Are the organisms found in pond water the same all over the world? Activities are linked to some state and the national standards. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=335228 The TEAMS project promotes inquiry science teaching in the elementary classroom by using digital technology to directly address teacher concerns about this method of instruction. The inclusion of digital video clips of engaging science exercises for K-5 students reduces the unpredictable nature of inquiry teaching exercises and targeted, engaging science content refreshes instructor knowledge of key science principles. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=81093 This website offers universally adaptable lab exercises as well as links to producers and vendors of adapted equipment for science students with disabilities.