ScienCentral News is a news service providing science news feeds for television stations. The feeds are available on the ScienCentral website, with accompanying text, and are suitable for educational purposes. Most stories are relatively short, as is appropriate for a television news program. A new service, titled Science Sensei provides programming targeted at teen agers. The site and its feeds are the product of ScienCentra, a production company specializing in science and technology content f more...

This article published by Business wire introduces UC Irvine's Open Educational Resources initiative. The University provides Free Online Educational Resource to Impact California’s Dramatic Teacher Shortage. Inroduction: The mounting severity of California’s critical shortage of qualified math and science teachers has been the impetus for the development of a vital new teacher-training program at the University of California, Irvine. The program addresses the urgent need to help new and inc more...

Science NetLinks provides a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, including a wide range of online lesson plans as well as educational tools and resources. Lessons: At the heart of Science NetLinks are standards-based lesson plans that incorporate reviewed Internet resources, and can be selected according to specific benchmarks and grade ranges. Each lesson is tied to at least one learning goal and uses research-based instructional strategies that support student learning. The lessons more...

Through out its online Learning Center, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) offers open online science learning objects for K–12 science teachers. The Web site includes 270 NSTA journal articles available free of charge, over 30 Open Science Objects and e-chapters from selected books. From the introduction: "If you want a better understanding of what you teach—the science content in your subject areas—and how to teach it—techniques to help your students learn—you’ve come more...