NBC Learn - End of Grant

 

Through a generous grant by the Honda Foundation, NBC Learn K-12 has been available statewide in Delaware public schools. Unfortunately, the grant period and access to NBC Learn will end on June 30, 2012.  

NBC Learn has been working over the past several months with the Delaware Department of Education to continue access to the resource, but to date have been unable to locate the necessary funding to continue a statewide implementation.

NBC Learn will be reaching out to all district administrators to discuss local funding by districts and individual schools.  If your school administrator is interested, please have them email Michael Levin at Michael.Levin@nbcuni.com, Director, Technology & Client Operations, or call (203)716-1231. Any comments or questions regarding the grant can also be directed to Marian Wolak, Director of Curriculum, Instruction & Professional Development, mwolak@doe.k12.de.us, at the Delaware Department of Education.

We hope that NBC Learn K-12 will be funded in the 2013-14 year and, if NBC Learn returns, we will once again provide links to that resource on our database pages, as well as training sessions on its use.

UDLib/SEARCH Staff

Updates to Science Online - Biodiversity

Science Online has been recently updated to include new content, photographs, and illustrations on biodiversity.

Biodiversity is the variety of living things on Earth or in a specific area. A region that has a wide variety of species in robust populations is said to possess biodiversity. But not every place on Earth bursts with diverse life, as biodiversity concentrates in certain areas, while other parts of the globe possess a somewhat lesser variety and number of species. Students and researchers will appreciate the new entries in Science Online that highlight the important subject of biodiversity and its related topics.

New entries include: Biodiversity and the greenhouse effect, Biodiversity in the Carboniferous period, Biodiversity of animals.

The scientific concept of biodiversity and its related topics are vividly represented through more than 100 photographs and illustrations added to Science Online with this latest release. Having a biodiverse area depends on the cohabitation of a wide range of life forms within an ecosystem, and the existence of these diverse organisms maintains a crucial stability in the natural world. Visual representations can help students and researchers understand these important science concepts more fully.

New entries include: Biogeochemical Cycles, Joint Reproductive Structure, Lamprey Mouth.

New Videos on Space and Military Technology

Science Online includes newly added newsreel videos that cover space and military technology. After the end of World War II, the cold war locked the United States against the USSR and its member states. Part of that conflict was the space race--to put a human in space successfully, and eventually, on the moon. These newsreels give viewers "you-are-there" looks at historic moments, such as John Glenn's flight that orbited the Earth, the USSR's contributions to the space race, and the discovery of penicillin's effectiveness in eradicating certain diseases. Visit Science Online to discover these and other fascinating videos and newsreels about a wide variety of science topics.

Newly added videos include:

• John Glenn Flight Thrills the World 
• Penicillin Drug Saves Allied Lives
• Russian Cosmonaut Orbits Globe 17 Times