Carl Mungan

Last issue I began with a collection of webpages devoted to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education. Here are some more:

• Science Mentoring Research.
• Pathways to Science.
• Illinois I-STEM resources.
• STEM Planet at http://www.stemplanet.org/
• Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM.
• Great Science for Girls.
• Verizon's Thinkfinity STEM page.
• Afterschool Alliance's STEM page.
• New York's STEM Education.

• An easy-to-use list of HTML special characters is at http://www.edlazorvfx.com/ysu/html/ascii.html. I also recommend http://www.av8n.com/physics/decorated-symbols.htm for a discussion of how to apply overdots, vector arrows, and the like to HTML symbols.
   
• Some simple animations and explanations related to introductory physics topics are available at http://www.fearofphysics.com/.
   
• A repository of materials on applied math and science of particular interest to community and technical colleges is at http://amser.org/.
   
• If you have not seen the incredible before and after photos of the Japanese tsunami at http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2011/09/japan-marks-6-months-since-ear.html you should immediately go and look at them. They are an amazing testimony to the resilience of the human spirit.
   
• An illustrated discussion of the relationship between painting and optics can be browsed at http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/.
   
• The Center for Science & Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado in Boulder has a rich website at http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/.
   
• A peer-reviewed journal that publishes student research is online at http://www.jofsr.com/.
   
• The University of Delaware has a Problem-Based Learning webpage at http://www.udel.edu/inst/.
   
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology has a timeline about… wait for it… time measurements through the ages at http://www.nist.gov/pml/general/time/.
   
• One of my colleagues pointed out there are some provocative posts (among some rubbish) about getting rid of college lectures at http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/2040253/when-getting-rid-of-college-lectures-makes-sense.
   
• NASA has a page at http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html/ that enables one to track satellites in 3D.
   
• Finally, MIT has a large collection of physics demo resources at http://scripts.mit.edu/~tsg/www/.

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