Ask Slashdot: Online Science For 8th Grade Students?

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 20, 2011 @08:16AM from the alton-brown-rocks dept.

Peterus7 writes "I'm a student teacher in an 8th grade science classroom, and have noticed that students are very motivated by anything online. After realizing that, I've been looking for ways to incorporate internet resources into my teaching, and trying to find cool citizen science projects, activities, and simulations that would be appropriate for a grade school science class, such as galaxyzoo and fold.it. So, I'm asking slashdot for more resources that could help bring science to their lives. Thanks!"

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Anything Online? by MoonBuggy · 2011-03-20 08:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It sounds like you're motivated and genuinely want to help them learn, which is a great (and all too rare) thing in a teacher, but I'm a born pessimist, so I have to ask: are you sure "anything online" doesn't mean "anything that makes it easy to look like one's working while chatting on Facebook and playing Flash games"?