Department of Education

• Online Teacher-to-Teacher Workshops: ED has brought together some of the nation's most effective teachers and practitioners to share their research-based practices and ways of using data through its Teacher-to-Teacher Workshops, offered nationwide. To more broadly disseminate the information, these workshops have been converted to online courses, delivered via video streaming, at http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher. The free courses allow K–12 teachers to experience on-demand professional development in specific content areas. To ensure access, all programs are closed-captioned. Recently added science courses include Got the "H.O.T.S." for Inquiry?—presented by NSTA member Gail B. Wortmann—and Science and CSI: Weaving Science and Math Into Lessons That Teach Kids to Think.
  
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE): ED’s FREE website (http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html) contains a Science section with free educational resources covering a range of science topics, including space sciences, geology, physical sciences, astronomy, Earth science, paleontology, physics, biological and life sciences, engineering, chemistry, pharmacology, oceanography, and ecology. The Science site also has a Careers section.

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