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Ask Slashdot: Online Science For 8th Grade Students?

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Get offline and do experiments by Animats · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do real experiments. The kids will remember that.

  2. Re:Anything Online? by frosty_tsm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They may like teaching, but many of them (that I've seen) don't appear to be good at it. If you don't have patience, you really, really shouldn't be a teacher.

    I think we need to make teaching more attractive as a career to build a bigger (hopefully better) pool of applicants to pick from. Regardless of what Fox News says, they are underpaid considering the job requirements and stress they deal with.