2009-06-15

The first ScienceMan newsletter has been released! If you aren't a subscriber, you can view the newsletter (and choose to subscribe if you wish) by clicking here.

The ScienceMan newsletter will grace your inbox with cool tips, suggestions, videos, reviews and much more, once a month....
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2009-06-04

Congratulations to the following Science teachers from BC, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec for winning the 2009 Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence (AASTE):

BC - David Riendl, York House School
ON - Glenn Wagner, Centre Wellington District High School
QC - Chantale Maheux  of L`école secondaire l`Horizon de St-Jean...
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2009-06-04

Science on Stage Canada (SoSC), Canada's Science Teachers' Festival, sponsored by the Council of Science Educators of Canada, is being held in at the Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon August 9-14, 2009

This festival is a nationwide collaboration of science educators dedicated to the development...
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2009-06-02

Crocodile Clips has released another free Yenka product. This time, it's free for everyone - both in schools and at home.

Yenka Sequences is an innovative tool for introducing computer control and programming. It's a cut-down version of the computing software Yenka Programming. It lets you control dancing characters with simple flowchart...
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2009-06-02

Crocodile Clips has just expanded their free "Absorb" online library of whiteboard resources. There are now nearly 1600 free resources available, including videos, interactive animations, simulations and images, which cover mathematics, physics, chemistry and electronics. They can be used either at school or at home.

Awesome for your...
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2009-05-29

From the National Academy Press.

Free booklet, with PowerPoints on current effects of climate changes from the National Academy Press.  Each example is of a specific species.  The PowerPoints are tailored for different parts of the US. You can choose the region or download all of them.  You can get the booklet in hard copy or as a PDF...
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2009-05-11

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has a great series of podcasts - and now video podcasts available for free at either their website bytesizescience.com or by subscribing to iTunes.

The latest podcast was on a new nanogenerator that may charge iPods and cell phones with a wave of the hand...
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2009-05-06

From the NewYorkTimes.com

By CARL ZIMMER
Published: May 4, 2009

Evolutionary biology may sometimes seem like an arcane academic pursuit, but just try telling that to Gavin Smith, a virologist at Hong Kong University. For the past week,...
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2009-05-01

Influenza A(H1N1) or the Swine flu has become a hot topic of conversation with news of more confirmed cases in both in Canada and across the world.

On April 29th, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the influenza pandemic alert from a phase 4 to phase 5, which alerts all countries to immediately activate their pandemic preparedness...
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2009-04-28

From NASA

NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old--less than five percent of its present age. The event, dubbed GRB 090423, is the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen.

"The incredible distance...
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