Two blogs for a science teacher’s Google Reader
August 18, 2009
BY When I first learned about Google Reader, I thought it was the bomb. I taught everyone about it — my parents, my husband, and so on. As time has passed, I’ve tweaked my reading list. Blogs have come and gone (of course Instructify has never gone), and I’ve recently discovered two new ones that you should take a look at: Not Exactly Rocket Science and American Scientist: Science in the News.
Besides having a great title, Not Exactly Rocket Science purports to be “science for everyone.” For each post, the author of the blog takes one current or cutting-edge bit of research, and writes about it in a way that an average citizen could understand. I’ve found it a great way to keep up with the science world. Also, if you listen to NPR’s Science Friday, you’ll recognize a lot of the topics cross over. American Scientist: Science in the News gives you a daily rundown of science news, summarizing news items in quick, enticing blurbs. Again, it can help a science teacher keep up with his or her content knowledge.
In addition to providing up-to-date content for teachers, both of these sites provide information that would certainly be readable by a high-school audience, and probably a lot of middle schoolers too. I know that lots of teachers have “current events” assignments and either one of these sources would provide a lot of fodder.
If you haven’t found these two blogs already, definitely check them out as a way to keep current in science topics. And if you’ve found other great ones, I’d love to hear about it in the comments.
American Scientist: Science in the News
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