Articles

=**For Your Reading Pleasure**= This page will house links to articles of educational and scientific interest.

This article details a school district near Raliegh, North Carolina who has moved to [|"de-leveling"] their science curriculum.

This article from CNN is about a rare shark called the [|Frilled Shark] that was videoed off of the coast of Japan.

The link to [|Discover Magazine].

Attached is an article from Ed. Weekly about the importance of connecting inquiry labs to the curriculum. It's titled, "Science Labs: Beyond Isolationism".

Attached is an article published in the February 2007 edition of Edutopia. The article, titled, "The Law of Theories" provides explainations of scienctific laws, theories, and facts.

Article from the January 28, 2007 edition of the [|Miami Herald.] This article details how schools are motivating students to be successful on the state assessment (FCAT). This will be the first year the the Science FCAT will count towards the Florida AYP.

[|A Boost for High-Tech Literacy] - January 11, 2007 - The Boston Globe

[|NAEP] - The Nation's Report Card in Science

[|Science Test Comes as Teaching Time Falls] - An article about Maryland and their struggle to fit an appropriate amount of time into their elementary schedule to teach science. Washington Post, May 6, 2007